15.366  Energy Ventures

Final presentations (outside of normal class time)

Please bring 3 hard copies of your final presentations, plus a dongle/connector to connect your laptop to the room's projector. The pitch should be 20-mins long, followed by 20-mins Q&A and 20-mins general feedback with the professors.

Timing:
CalWave Mon Dec 7, 9-10
OleoSep Mon Dec 7, 10-11
Route Tues Dec 8, 9-10
BalloonSonde Tues Dec 8, 10-11
Torr Wed Dec 9, 8:30-9:30
XRG Wed Dec 9, 10:30-11:30
Infinite Cooling Wed Dec 9, 11:30-12:30
ikEnergy Wed Dec 9, 3-4

Location: Martin Trust Center, 160V Testa South

Announced on 01 December 2015  5:47  p.m. by Liz Voeller

Added request: Team Descriptions

Hi teams,

Would be fantastic if you could send me 2 descriptive blurbs of your team (link examples below)

Please upload to the document link below, and provide a working version by Tues Nov 24. This way you can keep it current, and I'll just pull the most updated version as you make edits.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1QBl2hMeVTJdApDAbKXU9IdX1bQSfuESMZYDqnHL_lrs/edit#gid=0

Announced on 19 November 2015  7:21  p.m. by Liz Voeller

Remaining Deliverables & Dates

Please make note of the following dates:

Nov 18 at midnight ­ Draft versions of Business plan and Pitch deck due to Stellar
Dec 3 in class ­ Final business plan due to Stellar
Dec 4 through Dec 10 ­ Final pitch deck and presentation to professors outside of class
Dec 10 in class Short-version presentations to classmates

Announced on 17 November 2015  12:42  p.m. by Liz Voeller

15.366 Project Selections

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Hello 15.366 students!

Great round of presentations and questions the past two weeks. Detailed instructions about the next step--Project Selections-- are explained below. Please read the instructions carefully and check out the form. As a reminder, projects are listed in the Project & Form doc, and materials are posted on Stellar. Please submit your project selections using the following link: http://goo.gl/forms/1D8kIJumBR by Monday Sept 21 at 11:59PM ET.

OF NOTE: contrary to what was said in class, if you want to be in your own project YOU MUST BID POINTS. See below for more.

Waitlisted students, please proceed as if you were in the class.

If you have questions, it would be helpful to me if you title your email subject as "15.366 Project Selection Question".

Thanks!
Liz

Project Selection Process

Please submit your project selections using the following link: http://goo.gl/forms/1D8kIJumBR by Monday Sept 21 at 11:59PM ET.

Instructions are in the form and listed below.

Contact info for labs is also available in the Project & Form doc

Take a look at most updated materials on Stellar; many have been updated as of earlier today

If there's a potential for project overlap and team interest that combines well... please bring this to our attention. We will also touch base if we see certain trends in the final results.

Each student has 100 points total to allocate across the projects below. Students should indicate interest in 7 projects total. Students must bid a minimum of 1 point for AT LEAST 3 projects, up to 7 projects. This means that students might need to place a 0 in up to four choices (or however many it takes to get to seven projects total). Leave all other project fields blank. This will show us, in a worst case scenario, which projects you would be OK working on. Note that this implies a 98 point maximum for one project. To be clear-- if you still want to work on your presented a technology / idea, BE SURE TO BID ON YOUR OWN PROJECT. It is up to you to determine the point balance among your selected projects.

If enough students find overlap in these projects, there is a possibility to combine to create a new focused venture. Please coordinate among yourselves to determine how you will vote, and make a comment in the section provided.

If you are a project source or presenter, you will automatically be in your own project if enough students select it. (Unless you indicate another project preference.)

If you are a project source/presenter, you can select two students that will be given bonus points for selection to your project. Do not choose 2 students of the same category (e.g. business, technology, policy). This does not guarantee they will be on the team - but acts as a tie breaker.

Announced on 17 September 2015  9:11  p.m. by Liz Voeller

What's on this week | Class #2

Links in your email.

As you should have seen in the syllabus (posted on Stellar and attached), the following assignments are due BEFORE CLASS, Thursday Sept 17:

>> Post your resume & headshot in this Google Folder (titled: Last Name, First Name - Resume & Last Name, First Name - Photo)... Even if you have sent these to me in the past, please re-post them in the Google Folder

>> Comment on technologies / ideas using this Google Doc (scroll to the right to find your name)
--If you are presenting an idea / technology, then please comment on at least two other ideas
--If you are not presenting an idea / technology, then please comment on at least four ideas

If you are interested in MIT Technology Licensing Office patents, please see this sign up sheet prepared by Molly Bales.

For those of you who did not present last week, please be prepared to pitch your idea this week.

Note that we will be sending out a project selection form after this Thursday's class.

Thanks!
Liz

Other opportunities
t=0 energy & development entrepreneurship. RSVP here
Greentown Labs startup opportunity. With 2 other co-founders we have started a venture in the industrial IoT space focusing on security. We were semi-finalists in the MIT CEP and are semi-finalists in the Cleantech Open northeast. We have been selected to join Greentown Labs in October 2015 (on a part time residency) and would like to bring more people on board. Would your students be interested in talking to us? Contact: Nissia Sabri (nissia@mit.edu), MIT Sloan SDM

Announced on 14 September 2015  10:45  p.m. by Liz Voeller