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Session 5: Negotiation Skills; Organizational and People Issues
Wednesday, January 29, 2014
6:00pm to 9:00pm, Room: 10-250

Part 1: Negotiation Skills
How do you negotiate deals and resolve team conflicts?

Speakers:
Mindy Garber mgarber@alum.mit.edu
Victoria Bennet vjbennet@gmail.com
View their Bios Here

Presentation Slides:
Interactive Presentation - No Slides Used


Part 2: Organizational and People Issues
Most ventures which fail do so because of people issues, not technology, market or funding issues. What people are needed to take the Business Plan from paper to reality? How do you identify good team members and avoid problems? Building an External Team and an Internal Team. Developing and implementing a philosophy for the business.

Reading:

Timmons, Jeffrey A., New Venture Creation- Entrepreneurship for the 21st Century, Chapter 7 "The New Venture Team".

Speaker:
Joost Bonsen
MIT Media Lab, Lecturer
Presentation Slides:    "On People"

 

 

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