n3eight@MIT

Project Partner : Jhonatan Rotberg

Place : MIT

Sunish Gupta
Boling Jiang
Rajeev Koz
Prashant Paliwal
Yulia Surya
February 2009

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 Vision and Mission Statements
• Slide 1. Minute 1. Draft 2 separate statements, from the
broader (vision) to the more strategic/tactical (mission)
• Vision – “To establish a world-class mobile technology
incubator at MIT, that would enable students to create self-
sustaining ventures that would address real-world problems in
the developing world”
• Mission
To establish a user-friendly web-based platform that would
address the needs of our key stakeholders, project partners,
students, academia and the nextlab staff by:
– Enabling the project management process for all nextlab
projects, starting from submission by partners to their
respective completion
– Establishing a self-sustaining business model that would
bring project partners and other industry leaders together
to contribute towards successful deployment and venture
creation of viable technologies

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 Milestones Spring 2009
• Slide 2. Minute 2. Biweekly Venture and Technical Milestones
(put separately) during the course of NextLab II, according to
syllabus
Milestone Date Description

1 26-Feb Needs and Goals identified, Strategy document

ratified with Partner, Draft project requirements
complete
2 12-Mar Requirements Complete, Design Document
Started, UROPs identified, Sustainability and
Institutional relationship strategy formulated,
Project team “Assignment Paper” complete
3 2-Apr 1st Version of Design Complete, Wireframe design
started, 1st Version of Sustainability and business
model document complete
4 16-Apr Final Design Complete, 1st Version of Wireframe
design complete, Sustainability and business
model document complete
5 30-Apr Final Design document due, Wireframe
Implementation complete with feedback
incorporated, Sustainability and business model
document due
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 Milestones Summer 2009
• Slide 3. Minute 3. Biweekly Venture and Technical Milestones (put
separately) during the Summer assuming you receive Next Billion
Network funds for Summer implementation
Milestone Date Description
1 31-Jun Wireframe Design Implemented with
working backend.
2 15-July First working web-based incubator platform
prototype ready

3 31-July Feedback incorporated into the prototype

4 15-Aug Incubator platform “Alpha” release

5 31-Aug Incubator platform “Beta” release for Fall

class.

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 Milestones Fall 2009
• Slide 4. Minute 4. Month end Venture and Technical Milestones
(put separately) during the Fall until 31 Dec ‘09, assuming you
continue to be incubated by the Next Billion Network program
Milestone Date Description

1 1-Oct Beta testing of platform continues with stakeholder

feedback including students, partners and faculty

2 1-Nov Feedback incorporated into Beta Version

3 1-Dec 1st Production-ready release.

4 1-Jan Production Release.

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 How will this Venture Change the
World
• Slide 5. Minute 5. How do you plan to scale this venture
globally as fast as possible, and how will its ubiquity
CHANGE THE WORLD?

• The “Incubator Platform” will start just from mobile-

technologies and MIT students but the business process
and the sustainability plan that we plan to deliver will be
scalable and there is nothing stopping us from reaching
out to other universities and other countries that would
benefit from the “commonality” and “Scalability”
offered by us.

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