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31 May 2011

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MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition, MIT Innovation Club, MIT Africa Business Club, MIT SEID, MIT Global Startup Workshop, Muddy Charles Pub

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International Development Initiative, International Development Guide, Global Health Initiative, Enterprise Forum Global

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Development Ventures, Neurotech Ventures, Urban Ventures, Understanding MIT

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Nuts & Bolts of Business Plans

My Fall 2009 Teaching @ MIT

Development Ventures, Neurotech Ventures, Understanding MIT

My Spring 2009 Efforts

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My IAP 2009 Teaching @ MIT

Nuts & Bolts of Business Plans

My Fall 2008 Teaching @ MIT

Understanding MIT, Development Ventures, Neurotech Ventures

My Activities

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      • CineSquid ~ MIT Imaging Venture Product #2
      • ACCELERATE ~ MIT $100K Competition Dial Up!
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      • Cry Freetown ~ Samura on Sierra Leone Civil War
      • Venture Sierra Leone ~ Investment & Tourism++
      • The Technologists ~ Pearl’s MIT Historical Thrille...
      • MatterPort ~ Easy 3D Capture+Model Via Kinect!
      • Man in Space ~ A Decade From Disney to Glenn!
      • Qatar ~ 60 Minutes Spotlights Powerful Force
      • Future of Games ~ Will Wright @ UCSC IFOG'11
      • Transcendent Man ~ Kurzweil Singularity Trailer......
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      • Skating Amsterdam ~ Lovely Frozen Canalways!
      • Solar Tornadoes ~ NASA Dynamics Observatory...
      • Temporal Distortion ~ Halverson's Dakotalapse!
      • Inventing on Principle ~ Bret Victor on Creativity...
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      • Covered Arcades ~ Lovely Inner-City Street Malls
      • Pig Moradi ~ Filthy Iranian Terrorist Scumbag...
      • Rosette Nebula ~ Celestial Valentine's Flower;-)
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      • Forkless Bicycle ~ Surprisingly Provocative!
      • Esplanade 2020 ~ Boston's Charles River Future!
      • Resource Nationalism ~ Economist on Africa...
      • Making Yojimbo ~ See Mifune, Kurosawa, et al
      • Fragrant Harbor ~ Spotlight on Hong Kong!
      • Advancing Types ~ Kaku on Humanity 2057++
      • MIT Media Ventures ~ Thurs 10a-12n Spr 2012
      • Bullet of Light ~ Raskar et al Ultrafast Imaging!
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      • Cat's Eye Nebula ~ NASA's Hubble+Chandra...
      • Ant Megalopolis ~ Nature’s Secret Power Docu
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      • R.I.P. Don Cornelius ~ Soul Train Creator Suicide
      • Power of Charisma ~ CBS on Engaging Politicians
      • Global Startups ~ MIT GSW in Istanbul, Turkey!
      • Quadrotor Swarms ~ UPenn's GRASP Lab Flies!
      • Over Africa ~ NASA ISS Spaceflight Timelapse!
    • ►  January (86)
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      • Breaking Point ~ Ballet Dancers at Joffrey School
      • Tech Transformations ~ WSJ on the Coming Boom
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Joost's Library

  • David Landes's Wealth and Poverty of Nations
  • Paul Pollak's Out of Poverty
  • Norman Augustine's Augustine's Laws
  • C K Prahalad's Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid
  • Richard Florida's The Flight of the Creative Class
  • Richard Florida's Who's Your City?
  • Julian Simon's The State of Humanity
  • Thomas Friedman's The Lexus and the Olive Tree
  • Peter Bauer's From Subsistence to Exchange
  • Jay Forrester's World Dynamics
  • Julian Simon's Ultimate Resource
  • David Landes's Unbound Prometheus
  • Rosenberg & Birdzell's How the West Grew Rich
  • Pomeranz & Topik's The World That Trade Created
  • Hernando de Soto's Mystery of Capital
  • Hernando de Soto's Other Path
  • Jeffrey Sachs's Common Wealth
  • Paul Collier's The Bottom Billion
  • Joel Mokyr's The Lever of Riches
  • Martin Wolf's Why Globalization Works

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