The Silicon Valley Innovation and Entrepreneurship Program

Immersive.  Intensive.  Hands-on.  Learn how to turn an idea into a thriving venture from world-class engineers, designers, marketers, investors, attorneys, and successful start-up entrepreneurs.

Recommend for: International graduate students, equivalent of Masters level, from engineering, business, design and other fields

Duration: semester (5 months)

Learn2Launch is an integrated program that provides students with an intensive, immersive and hands-on approach to the study of innovation, entrepreneurship, and startups.

This graduate-level program is a semester-long curriculum that combines lectures, workshops, field trips, and discussions with renowned Berkeley faculty from engineering, business, law, communications, and other disciplines, and guest lecturers by some the most dynamic innovators in the Silicon Valley.

Students will be exposed to the “Silicon Valley” style of entrepreneurship first-hand, by visiting incubators and accelerators, venture capital firms, funding events, technology showcases, and other formal and informal events.

 

Learn More    |    Sample Syllabus (PDF)    |    Contact Learn2Launch

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Case Study – PRYNT

The founders of Prynt attended Learn2Launch in Fall 2013. By January they had an idea for turning a smart phone into an instant camera, printing photos from your phone in seconds.

A year later they had become the highest funded French start-up on Kickstarter. They have been featured at CES, on network and cable news, and by kickstarter as staff pick.