Saad Hirani

World’s Largest Lenders Confide in Silicon Valley’s Fintech

By Saad Hirani / February 8, 2016 / Comments Off on World’s Largest Lenders Confide in Silicon Valley’s Fintech

In a constantly changing world where innovation has been dominated by payment, insurance, investment management, and market provision related financial technology, the world’s largest banks are beginning to show signs of fear at conceding to the startup world. Existing difficulties around low interest rates, lack of confidence in governments and increased assurance from private corporations…

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Kamran Elahian, Founder of Global Catalyst Partners Visits Berkeley

By Saad Hirani / January 20, 2016 / Comments Off on Kamran Elahian, Founder of Global Catalyst Partners Visits Berkeley

Kamran Elahian, a very well known philanthropist, entrepreneur & venture capitalist, recently attended the Berkeley Method of Entrepreneurship Bootcamp to deliver an inspirational talk to students on the importance of social entrepreneurship, failure and philanthropy in the modern world. As a well reputed entrepreneur, Kamran has worked on ten startups, with six of them producing a…

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Radius Collider Fall 2015

By Saad Hirani / December 1, 2015 / Comments Off on Radius Collider Fall 2015

The Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology, in partnership with Radius, recently concluded an Innovation Collider project last week. The collider consisted of a real-world data science challenge program, that allowed UC Berkeley students to learn and utilize the tools and methods used by the Radius team. Students were asked to estimate the industry of…

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Kabam Collider Challenge

By Saad Hirani / November 18, 2015 / Comments Off on Kabam Collider Challenge

The Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology, in partnership with Kabam, recently concluded an innovation collider project. The collider was an open challenge to students to develop a new methodology and create an implementation process to price goods when taking into accounts relative global economics and purchasing parities in markets. The challenge by Kabam aimed…

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Radius Collider Challenge

By Saad Hirani / November 9, 2015 / Comments Off on Radius Collider Challenge

The Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology, in partnership with Radius, recently concluded an Innovation Collider project last week. The collider consisted of a real-world data science challenge program, that allowed UC Berkeley students to learn and utilize the tools and methods used by the Radius team. Students were asked to estimate the industry of…

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Tech and Talent Showcase – 4 Amazing Women, 4 Disruptive Technologies

By Saad Hirani / October 24, 2015 / Comments Off on Tech and Talent Showcase – 4 Amazing Women, 4 Disruptive Technologies

The Women In Bio (WIB) SF Bay Area presents: Tech and Talent Showcase: 4 Amazing Women, 4 Disruptive Technologies At 6pm on Thursday, November 5th, come hear the stories of 4 innovative products and 4 creative women who push forward the frontiers of biotech. These women will provide case studies of each technology, as well as their strategies, challenges and successes in managing its…

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