Keith McAleer

The Founder’s Playbook: New SCET video series focuses on founder routines, fail-ups, and mindsets

By Keith McAleer / July 8, 2020 / Comments Off on The Founder’s Playbook: New SCET video series focuses on founder routines, fail-ups, and mindsets

The Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology (SCET) at the University of California, Berkeley has just launched a new video series called The Founder’s Playbook that aims to get the real stories of what it’s like for innovators to create something new. Subscribe to SCET YouTube to follow the Founder’s Playbook. The series, hosted by…

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Startup Semester students among winning teams in Google Developer Student Club Solution Challenge 2020

By Keith McAleer / July 1, 2020 / Comments Off on Startup Semester students among winning teams in Google Developer Student Club Solution Challenge 2020

Three students from the Spring 2020 cohort of SCET’s Startup Semester program were among the winning teams of the Google’s Developer Student Club’s Solution Challenge 2020. The goal of the challenge was to “use technology to solve a local problem together with community.” Submissions were accepted from more than 60 countries and 800 universities around…

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How SCET is moving its largest class online

By Keith McAleer / March 17, 2020 / Comments Off on How SCET is moving its largest class online

The A. Richard Newton Lecture Series has long been one of SCET’s most important courses for helping to educate and train entrepreneurs at the University of California, Berkeley. Since 2005, the Series has hosted some of the world’s most influential founders, innovators and visionaries to tell the story of how they created a disruptive startup,…

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SCET awards $50,000 in grants to support innovation and changemakers on campus

By Keith McAleer / February 19, 2020 / Comments Off on SCET awards $50,000 in grants to support innovation and changemakers on campus

The Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology at the University of California, Berkeley has just awarded $50,000 to three UC Berkeley courses to support innovation on campus and build new connections to share pedagogy best practices. The Instructional Innovation Grants will help SCET share insights learned from its award-winning Berkeley Method of Entrepreneurship curriculum, including…

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SCET Wins Excellence in Entrepreneurship Teaching and Pedagogical Innovation Award

By Keith McAleer / October 2, 2019 / Comments Off on SCET Wins Excellence in Entrepreneurship Teaching and Pedagogical Innovation Award

The Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology (SCET) at the University of California, Berkeley has won an Excellence in Entrepreneurship Teaching and Pedagogical Innovation Award at 2019 The Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers (GCEC) conference. Learn more about what led to the award here.

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SCET is finalist in Excellence in Entrepreneurship Teaching and Pedagogical Innovation award at GCEC 2019

By Keith McAleer / September 26, 2019 / Comments Off on SCET is finalist in Excellence in Entrepreneurship Teaching and Pedagogical Innovation award at GCEC 2019

The Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology (SCET) at the University of California, Berkeley is a finalist in the category of Excellence in Entrepreneurship Teaching and Pedagogical Innovation at 2019 The Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers (GCEC) conference, which will take place in Stockholm, Sweden on September 26-28. The SCET has been nominated for its…

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Richard Din (Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences ‘08, Economics ‘08) co-founded Caviar, an app that changed food delivery. Now he wants to help students connect more deeply with entrepreneurs, to learn about their entire experience.

New ‘Off-the-Record’ Course Aims to Give Entrepreneurs the Chance to Speak More Candidly About their Startup Experience

By Keith McAleer / July 31, 2019 / Comments Off on New ‘Off-the-Record’ Course Aims to Give Entrepreneurs the Chance to Speak More Candidly About their Startup Experience

This fall semester, the Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology (SCET) at the University of California, Berkeley will offer a small, selective course that will focus on some of the less glamorous elements of creating a company. The course will feature a speaker series of entrepreneurs and innovators who will share intimate details of their…

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SCET Announces New Partnership with Sumeru Ventures, Strengthening its Global Network

By Keith McAleer / June 17, 2019 / Comments Off on SCET Announces New Partnership with Sumeru Ventures, Strengthening its Global Network

The Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology (SCET) in the College of Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley is pleased to announce its latest partnership with Sumeru Ventures, a next generation global technology fund based in Los Angeles, California. Through this new partnership, the SCET will have the opportunity to continue to expand its…

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Now hiring for student positions — Come join our team!

By Keith McAleer / May 8, 2019 / Comments Off on Now hiring for student positions — Come join our team!

The Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology (SCET) is a global innovation hub headquartered at UC Berkeley’s College of Engineering where aspiring entrepreneurs and innovators take deep dives into the world of technology entrepreneurship and embark on the path to develop exciting new ventures. The Center is currently hiring for paid student positions. The following…

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Why Diversity Matters in Storytelling

By Keith McAleer / April 26, 2019 / Comments Off on Why Diversity Matters in Storytelling

Last week, alum Marissa Louie (‘05 Interdisciplinary Studies — Business, Economics, & IEOR) visited the Sutardja Center’s product design course to talk about storytelling for designers and why diversity is the cornerstone of her brand. After graduating from Cal, Marissa founded three companies, was an art director at Apple, and principal designer at Yahoo. She…

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