Posts by Saad Hirani
A Quick Artificial Intelligence Update
Artificial Intelligence is offering the kind of revolution mankind first saw a 100 years ago with electricity, with Andrew Ng, the former Chief Scientist at Baidu claiming he can’t think…
Read MoreCITRIS Foundry Hosts Demo Day
This week the CITRIS Foundry, SCET’s entrepreneurship partner and the UC system’s accelerator for founders building transformative technology companies, held its biannual Demo Day, where its Spring 2016 cohort pitched…
Read MoreHEC’s Silicon Valley Entrepreneurs
HEC Paris, a European Business School located in the southern suburbs of Paris, specializes in education and research management, and offers a range of entrepreneurship related programs to increase the exposure…
Read MoreBerkeley Method of Entrepreneurship – A Quick Recap
This past week, the Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship wrapped up its signature week-long bootcamp, capping off a week characterized with mesmerizing presentations from both speakers and students from a variety…
Read MoreKomal Ahmad – Bridging the Food Divide
This year’s Newton Lecture Series kicked off with a UC Berkeley alum entrepreneur who’s determined to solve the world’s most basic problem – hunger. Komal Ahmad, Founder and CEO of…
Read MorePhilDev’s Scholars & The Mission to Replicate Entrepreneurship Ecosystems
The Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology is well-known by now for its collaborative approach and collider mentality; one that is based on the principal that creating knowledge societies and…
Read MoreStartup Weekend Berkeley
Startup Weekend is a global grassroots movement of ambitious entrepreneurial minds and various skill sets who are looking to practice and learn the basics of founding and launching a startup…
Read MorePear VC Hosting $250K Entrepreneurship Challenge for UC Berkeley Students
Pear is partnering again with UC Berkeley to provide members of the university’s exceptional entrepreneurial community an opportunity to receive up to $250,000 in funding while becoming part of the…
Read MoreMar Hershenson – Making Strides in Early Stage Venture Capital
A woman whose passion for startups, change and growth is possibly second only to her favorite soccer team, Barcelona, Mar Hershenson, Founding and Managing Partner of Pear.vc is one of…
Read MoreSCET Explains – Where Fintech Looks Promising and Why
With 2016 fast coming to a close, many people are questioning where the largest proportion of fintech investments will lie heading into 2017. Whereas 2016 was the year of heavy…
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