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The Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology at Berkeley Engineering celebrated its 10-year anniversary on April 21, 2015 by announcing a generous gift from Pantas Sutardja and Ting Chuk. The endowment will help hundreds more students invent products, start companies, and chart their course as industry innovators. The benefactors, both graduates of Berkeley Engineering, have initiated…
Read MoreYou may recall that we will be sharing some news about the growth and future of the Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology at Berkeley today. Our Dean, Shankar Sastry, will make an announcement at the A. Richard Newton Distinguished Innovator Lecture Series. We would like to invite you to watch this announcement at the beginning of the lecture on Tuesday,…
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Steve Blank, along with EECS Professor Kurt Keutzer, will offer this course in fall with the Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology. The program also fulfills the requirements of a Collider Project and counts towards Management of Technology Innovation Certificate Program for Graduate Students and Undergraduate Certificate Program in Entrepreneurship & Technology Creating Startups in Berkeley Engineering…
Read MoreAre you interested in working at Amazon? On April 23rd at 6PM in Banatao Auditorium, Amazon Logistics will offer a CET Collider Project that focuses on challenges they are tackling while growing Amazon’s delivery capability . This event will offer an insightful lecture on how Amazon’s Supply/Delivery Chain works today (read more about Amazon Logistics here). We invite…
Read MoreThe Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology will be holding events in McLaughlin Hall for the Cal Day festivities on April 18th, 2015. These sessions will be perfect for prospective students to learn more about CET, the student association, and Venture Lab from current students. Below is the list of events and their respective times, locations,…
Read MoreThe Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology (CET) and The Foundry@CITRIS are hosting David Koehn, the founder of The Batchery — a new accelerator in Berkeley — for a talk and panel discussion on angel investors, e.g., how to meet angels, how to pitch to them, what they’re looking for, etc. David will be joined by several prominent investor/advisors from The Batchery to round…
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Calling for for Venture Capital Firms, EIRs, Industry Experts, and Entrepreneurs: Do you want to Pay-it-Forward while adding value to a project you’re leading, introducing your project to experts at SCET | UC Berkeley to help build teams, and meeting highly skilled students on campus, while contributing to the thought leadership at UC Berkeley? The…
Read MoreWhen he was 15, his parents used to drive him to work. He was a programmer at eBay. By then, Darian Shirazi had already discovered his salesman spirit and was managing his own small business from home, reselling electronic imported products in the U.S. He earned enough money to buy a car. Shirazi, who is…
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The Berkeley Method has travelled to the Philippines thanks to a new program between the Center of Entrepreneurship and Technology and the Philippine Development Foundation.
Read MoreLessons learned from a first-time founder in the startup trenches by Jason Huertas “Hi, I’m Jason from Critica.” That is how I introduced myself for the past year and a half. My startup was my identity. And now it is no more. My first startup failed. As a founder, and especially as the CEO, that…
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