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Win up to $25K in Seed funding, Spend 3-6 months with Foundation Capital, and count it towards your graduate or undergraduate certificate from the Sutardja Center at Berkeley. The Foundation Capital Berkeley Founder’s Program is a 3-6 month jumpstart program for UC Berkeley entrepreneurs. Founder’s Program is hosted by Foundation Capital—an early-stage venture capital firm—in…
Read MoreStartups are all about the glitz and glamour, right? At least that is how they are portrayed in many media stories. But for many people that have never been through actually building a startup, they fail to understand the difficulties all entrepreneurs must go through. Even when things are going extremely well, there are fires…
Read MoreThis could be a great way to practice your website building skills, learn from experienced professionals, build your resume and, who knows, maybe get in on the ground floor of a big idea. See description and contact information below and reach out to Colleen Gallagher if you or a friend are interested. Summer Intern Needed: Web Developer for HR…
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Working for a big company might seem like a dream job, but it wasn’t his dream. Early in his career, the engineer Michael Baum discovered that he wanted to work for small startups. So he did. His entrepreneurial journey has spanned “25 years, 6 companies, 5 acquisitions, 1 IPO, 3,500 jobs, 150 millionaires and more…
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At the heart of the Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology lies the concept of a Collider, the place where top-notch students, researchers, practitioners, investors, entrepreneurs and industry leaders can “collide” to create unexpected outcomes on projects. A Collider project is not a lecture, a competition or a job fair. It is a brand new way…
Read MoreNow Accepting Applications for Berkeley’s Fall 2015 Engineering Leadership Program in Silicon Valley
Countdown to Fall Cohort kicking off on August 20th: June 15: Now accepting waiting list and Spring 2016 June 1: 7 seats May 1: 15 Seats available March 1: 25 Seats are available To Silicon Valley Leadership: You can now reward and invest in your most talented engineering leaders (directors, high-level managers, architects, and senior…
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On Tuesday, April 21, we announced a generous gift from Pantas Sutardja and Ting Chuk, which renamed our program to the Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology. After the event, we spoke to Pantas, the cofounder of Marvell Technology Group. He discussed the necessity of encouraging graduate students to take risks and the importance of…
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They are not only colleagues and partners, but also friends. Richard Din (’08), Shawn Tsao (’11), Jason Wang (’09) and Andy Zhang (’14), came back to Cal as founders of the restaurant delivery platform Caviar. Last Tuesday, they sat on the Sibley Auditorium stage to share their experience of running a startup that has been…
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“I’m glad to be back,” said Kathy Glaub as soon as she stepped on stage. Glaub is the CEO of Afferent Pharmaceuticals, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company. “Cal is the best university in the world,” she added. And she has gone to many universities; “I know a little about this,” she said. The advisor and investor…
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The students of Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology (SCET) teamed up with HEC Paris at Berkeley to present the first international Travel Hackathon on April 11. Students collaborated in teams to develop solutions to the hassles that everyone experiences while traveling. The event was co-hosted by ITS and HEC Paris. Luke Kim, Arjun Ghai,…
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