Roanna Lin

Management of Technology Innovation Program Finals

By Roanna Lin / December 21, 2016 / Comments Off on Management of Technology Innovation Program Finals

Friday, December 2nd, 2016 saw the culmination of hard work students enrolled in MTI had put in all semester as groups presented their pitches to Naeem Zafar, serial entrepreneur and director of the MTI Program, Professor Ikhlaq Sidhu, Director and Chief Scientist of SCET, and a panel of prominent VCs and mentors at SCET. Over…

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Female Founders – From Cal to Startup Success

By Roanna Lin / October 19, 2016 / Comments Off on Female Founders – From Cal to Startup Success

Last Tuesday’s Newton Series Lectures featured a diverse and highly accomplished panel of female founders. All Cal bears, Doreen Bloch (Haas, ’10), CEO and founder of Poshly; Pauline Shuen (’89), former executive of Cisco and founder of Level Chinese; and Laura Gomez (’01), founder and CEO of Atipica; filled the hour with startup sagacity and…

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Redesigning the Tech Industry

By Roanna Lin / September 27, 2016 / Comments Off on Redesigning the Tech Industry

How is design reshaping the technology industry? What role does it have in the future of tech? These are but a few of the questions Misha Cornes addressed last Friday when he spoke as part of the Design Field Notes Speaker Series at the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation. Misha is no stranger to the…

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