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September 21, 2006
MITEF Broadcast - Global Entrepreneurship
Inefficiency as Opportunity in a Developing World
The MITDV BizNet in association with Social Impact at Wharton welcomes you to another MIT Enterprise Forum Broadcast.
Our world-class panel will explore the opportunities for entrepreneurs in developing markets around the world, focusing on key areas such as:
- How to do good, and make money, by identifying needs and solving inefficiencies affecting poor regions
- How high-tech solutions work in low-tech areas
- Why entrepreneurship from the “bottom-up” works
- How to use the US legal and financial systems to go global
- How to overcome legal and governmental obstacles
You’ll hear real-world success stories from our entrepreneurs and the ways MIT is taking a leading role in globalization efforts for the 21st century as well as meet people in our local area interested and active in Socially Responsible Investing and Development.
Date: Sep 21, 2006
Time: 5:30 - 7:00 -- Networking and refreshments.
7:00 - 8:30 -- MIT Enterprise Forum Broadcast presented
Location: The Wharton School
Jon M. Huntsman Hall, Room 255
3730 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Cost: Members $15, Non-members $20, Current Students Free
RSVP online: Please click here to register or paste the following URL in your browser.
https://alum.mit.edu/smarTrans/user/Register.dyn?eventID=6877&groupID=158
RSVP mail: Please make all checks to
MIT Club of the Delaware ValleyContact: Robert Barrimond, 610-308-7334, robert.barrimond@alum.mit.edu
103 E. Gorgas Lane
Philadelphia, PA 19119-2151
Our speakers include
- Damien Balsan GM ’02 -- co-founder and vice president of business development for WAY Systems, a leader in mobile point-of-sale devices
- Rick Burnes -- co-founder of the venture capital firm Charles River Ventures
- Iqbal Quadir -- founder of the GrameenPhone cellular network in Bangladesh and co-founder and director of the MIT Program for Developmental Entrepreneurship
- Randy Zadra -- managing director of the Institute for Connectivity in the Americas
- Alex (Sandy) Pentland PS ’82 -- (moderator) professor of Media Arts and Sciences at the MIT Media Lab and co-founder and director of the MIT Program for Developmental Entrepreneurship
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