# MIT 15.393 Nuts and Bolts of New Ventures, IAP 2025

Instructor: Joe Hadzima View the complete course: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/15-393-nuts-and-bolts-of-new-ventures-january-iap-2025 YouTube Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP63EUNfnwrkgO2xxwYxNwRdI For 36 years, Nuts and Bolts of New Ventures has been taught during the January Independent Activities Period (IAP) at MIT. It is designed to foster an understanding of how to start a new venture (for-profit and social/development). The course details the process from an idea’s inception to the development of a successful new venture to deliver products and services enabled by the idea. Explores customer identification, the business/economic models, financial projections, legal and operational issues, and financing alternatives and sources. All sessions are taught by people who have actually launched or have been involved in successful ventures. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA More information at https://ocw.mit.edu/terms More courses at https://ocw.mit.edu Support OCW at http://ow.ly/a1If50zVRlQ We encourage constructive comments and discussion on OCW’s YouTube and other social media channels. Personal attacks, hate speech, trolling, and inappropriate comments are not allowed and may be removed. More details at https://ocw.mit.edu/comments

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2025
- By: MIT OpenCourseWare
- Genres: Education, Science
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/mit15_393iap25)
- Licence or status: [CC BY-NC-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/ia/mit15_393iap25?play=1)