Joe Hadzima

Experienced Entrepreneurial Innovator

What I Do

Mr. Hadzima works in the areas of entrepreneurship, startup phase companies, business plans, venture capital, corporate governance, and intellectual property strategy. He has been involved in the founding of more than 100 companies as a founder, investor, director, legal counsel, or employee, and has advised entrepreneurs, high-growth businesses, and venture capitalists. These companies have been in a wide range of technology areas including speech recognition, nanotechnology, energy, IT, computer networking, life science and biotech.

Mr. Hadzima is a Senior Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He was a founding judge of the MIT $10K Entrepreneurship Competition (now the MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition), and has taught the popular MIT course, “Nuts and Bolts of New Ventures” since 1989. He is a frequent speaker for the MIT Enterprise Forum’s Satellite Broadcast Series (SBS), including programs on company valuation and structuring venture capital deals.

He was a director of the Global MIT Enterprise Forum for over 25 years and was its chairman of the board for four years. Mr. Hadzima practiced law for 17 years, first at Ropes & Gray in Boston and then at Sullivan & Worcester as founder and director of the High-Tech/New Ventures Group. He is a former director of the New England chapter of the National Association of Corporate Directors and of several private and public companies. His “Starting Up” column appeared regularly in the Boston Business Journal. He is a member of the MIT Venture Mentoring Service. He he has advised federal, state and foreign government agencies, universities, and nonprofits on the creation and support of entrepreneurial ecosystems to create economic growth.

Specialties: Angel investing; Emerging businesses; Entrepreneurial finance; Entrepreneurial management; Executive pay; High technology companies; Innovation; Innovation Ecosystems, Intellectual property strategy; Law; Management of technology; New ventures; Private equity; Research and development; Start-ups; Venture capital

Hadzima holds a BSc from MIT, an SM in Management from the MIT Sloan School of Management, and a JD cum laude from the Harvard Law School. He has been a Senior Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management since 1989. He is Co-Founder and President of IPVision, Inc., an intellectual property management, systems, and services firm.