In November 2012, we hosted a Speed Mentorship Session with Bose. MIT students

1. SPEED
MENTORSHIP
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14 NOV 2012 – MIT SLOAN

2. Tonight Ask questions
Rule of two feet
Explore and learn
At the end, we’ll reflect back
on the evening.

3. Bureh
Hand Crafted Belts
from Sierra Leone
Where we are: Looking for help with:
• 11K in crowd-funding • defining our brand
• 1 retail outlet • marketing and all things similar
• 100 belts per week capacity • distribution strategy

5. Need feedback on:
• School board support for teacher-student programs
in public high schools
•Designing training program for high school students

6. Imagínate | Diiaki Workshop
IDEAS Bose Speed Mentoring 11/15/2012

7. Weini Qiu, Sneha Khullar, Emmanuel Brace
www.impactprojects.net

8. • Fund raise (from large corporations to NGOs)
• Product adaptation in emerging market
• Strategy for startup to make a deal with large
corporations
Weini Qiu, Sneha Khullar, Emmanuel Brace
www.impactprojects.net

9. IndianRaga
An online platform to help upcoming musicians find professional opportunities
www.indianraga.in
Questions:
1.Bose Corporation being a pioneer in technology for audio and entertainment industry we’d
like to understand what kind of technology intervention we can have through IndianRaga to
solve an existing pain point - live streaming, video on demand, mobile apps, sound and
video quality, online training?
2.What are the challenges of technology and adoption?
3.Online marketing and building audiences and customer loyalty across various platforms.
How to build these up?
4.Pricing of products and services for online platforms. How should we think about
segmenting our customers, and who should pay for what? Should there be a subscription fee
and educational videos part of it, or should we charge on a pay-per-use model?
5.Design - What are some key features or highlights of product design for an e-commerce
platform, and what should we keep in mind about the user experience?
Achievements:
Winner US Creative Business Cup 2012, representative to Global Entrepreneurship Week
2012, Copenhagen
Winner MIT IDEAS Global Challenge Community Choice Award 2012
Grants Awardee, MIT Council for the Arts

10. Interactive Retinal Imaging Using
Computational Photography To Fight
Blindness
Simple, fast, non-invasive, low-cost retinal health screenings
Team Name: RetiCue
Advice on Design, Manufacturing, Distribution

11. Inspired By Nature
Working with communities around the world to develop and sell
high value, locally sourced natural products in order to increase
income generation and create jobs for the local people.
Kristin Kagetsu
Problem Solution
In remote communities across the world,
In remote communities across the world, By developing new products, communities
By developing new products, communities
people often do not have access to
people often do not have access to could meet the strong demand for natural
could meet the strong demand for natural
sustainable sources of income.
sustainable sources ofincome
income.
income products in the developed world.
products in the developedworld
world.
world
Business Model
Advise and work with communities to develop and sell their products to aahigh-end market.
Advise and work with communities to develop and sell their products to high-end market.
Current Product: Looking For Advice On:
Crayons
•• Developing aamarket for services
Developing market for services
•• Branding and marketing for product
Branding and marketing for product
•• Building aasolid team
Building solid team
•• Setting up/identifying sources for third
Setting up/identifying sources for third
party distribution
party distribution

12. WHAT: creating a market place and generating demand for used saris
and products made from used saris
WHY: >25,000 sari-pickers, >10M used saris collected per year =
massive, underutilized and under-marketed fabric catalog
HOW: optimize sari collection process and enable inventory
management through use of mobile technologies; in
addition, create market place (web platform) to increase
global access of used saris and products made from used
saris
WHO: Bijal Shah, MIT Sloan 2013, bijal@mit.edu
Joanna Zhou, MIT Sloan 2013, jxzhou@mit.edu
ASSISTANCE: mentors on supply chain innovation, marketing, and sales

13. M.I. SPOT
Micro-Institution Spot
DESIGN AND CRAFT EDUCATION CATALYZING SOCIOECONOMIC CHANGE
FOR URBAN CHINA MIGRANT STUDENTS
Yu Gao gaoyu@mit.edu
M.I.SPOT is a mix-used educational and commercial property that geared towards serving
artists, migrant students, and tourists in urban China.
Funding
- $ 100,000 for further field research, initial pilot testing, prototype testing
Financing the operation in the first two year.

16. H e a lth Im p a c t
A d a p t in g t o v o lu m e c h a n g e s p r o v id e s c o m f o r t , p r e v e n t in g s o r e s
A d ju s ta b le S o c k e t!
t h a t c a n le a d t o in f e c t io n w h ile in c r e a s in g m o b ilit y t h a t c a n p u ll
a m p u t e e s o u t o f t h e e c o n o m ic a n d e m o t io n a l d o w n w a r d s p ir a l
t h a t is b r o u g h t o n b y a m p u t a t io n .
a lthn Im lpnagc tt e c h n o l o g y !
e ab i P a in s e c o n d a r y t o lim b a m p u t a t io n is c o m m o n (E p h r a im e t a l. 2 0 0 5 ) “ d u e t o
m e c h a n ic a l f a c t o r s u c h a s p o o r p r o s t h e t ic fi t ”
n g t o v o lu m e c h a n g e s p r o v id e s c o m f o r t , p r e v e n t in g s o r e s
n l e T d et o s itnr uecc t tui or a l wi nh t iel eg i rni tcyr eo af s t ihn e s oocb ki lei t ty mt h aa tte cr iaanl ips u al r e s u l t
ah E x p a n d in g C a re In fra s tru c tu r e
S e m i F in a lis t in E m e r g in g M a r k e t T r a c k ! !
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E n te r p r ise A f r ic a B u s in e ss P la n C o m p e tit io n !
c u r r e n t p r o s t h e s i s c o s t $ 1 2 5 - 1 8 7 5 o u r c o s ts $50 (U S m a n u fa c t u rin g ) 2 N D P L A C E !!
f a c t o r s u c h a s p o o r p r o s t h e t ic fi t ”
a c c h r rieen t vf a e r ida t i own aint dh fi t t an g tsi m i em3 dpa y ls eo u h fiat tinng dt im v: a hco ucrsu m p u m p
u b c i r e 2
w in n e r ! !
p a n d in g C a re In fra s tru c tu re
S e m i F in a lis t in E m e r g in g M a r k e t T r a c k ! !
Ju r y A w a rd !!
a v in g s t h r o u g h r e d u c e d fi t t in g a n d f a b r ic a t io n t im e , m in im a l residual limb
e e d e d t o p r o v i d e c a r e e n a b l i n g m o b i l e p r o s t Aeelastomer bladder
h t ic c a r e placed inside
E n t e r p r is e A f r ic a B u s in e s s P la n C o m p e t as opaque inner wall)
(show i t i o n !
s t h e s i s c o s t $ 1 2 5 - 1 8 7 5 o u r c o s ts $50 (U S m a n u fa c tu rin g ) shaped as a cone to fit the 2
N D P L A C E !!
r i c a t i o n a n d fi t t i n g t i m e 3 d a y s o u r fi tt in g tim e : 2 h o u rs residual lim is filled with
b
w in n e r ! !
a granular solid!
elastomeric membrane
(blow form elastom
ed eric
material show as
transparent outer wall)
jammable material cavity
(filled with granular material
pliable at atmospheric pressure,
rigid at -500mm Hg)
standard prosthetic connector
(rigid material sandwiched m brane
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pyramid interface with air valve connection)
FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT: INFO@THEBETHPROJECT.COM
W alnut shell agriculture waste product
Wednesday, November low12
provides a 14, cost granular solid!

18. • How can we effectively market our product (curriculum, materials and
communication) to schools and their communities?
• How can we know if we have an effective product?
• What is a reasonable number of schools we can take this project to?

19. Thresh rents equipment that increases
incomes and yields to Ethiopian farmers
• Aleem Ahmed, Founder
Who – MIT Sloan & Harvard Kennedy School
– Agriculture and health scale-up experience in Ethiopia, Kenya, and Uganda
• Building a team
• X
What
Traditional threshing Mechanized threshing
• Maximizing learning from a pilot in January
Feedback • Developing an implementation strategy: distribution, rental, service and
maintenance system, marketing
• Manufacturing in developing countries
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20. explore math learn math
mentor and tutor realize potential
nurture creativity foster curiosity

21. Thank you to
everyone who
joined us for the
evening.