Entrepreneurship
Accelerate Your Early-Stage Startup – Announcing SCET’s Summer Venture Lab
Are you a student looking to grow your early stage startup? SCET 2023 Summer Venture Lab is the perfect fit for you! This six-week intensive program provides graduate-level students the opportunity to bring their venture projects a step closer to the market. Designed for Berkeley students and international students, Summer Venture Lab is a pre-accelerator…
8 Lessons Learned for Tech Firm Leadership with Vint Cerf, Co-Creator of the Internet
In the Spring 2022 semester, the Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology’s Technology Firm Leadership course taught by Carrie Requist had the distinct honor to host one of the fathers of the Internet, Dr. Vint Cerf for a guest lecture and interactive Q&A with the students. Along with Bob Kahn, Dr. Cerf co-created the Internet’s…
“Help interesting people to do interesting things” – Fireside Chat with Chris Yeh, co-author of Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies
“I help interesting people to do interesting things.” Chris Yeh Chris Yeh, along with Reid Hoffman, Linkedin co-founder, legendary investor, and host of the award-winning Masters of Scale podcast, is the author of the global best-selling book Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies. With a foreword by Bill Gates, Blitzscaling reveals the…
SCET partners with KAUST to host ‘Entrepreneurship 4 All’ workshops in Saudi Arabia
SCET has partnered with the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) Entrepreneurship Center to establish the ‘Entrepreneurship 4 All’ program in Saudi Arabia. The program, also known as ‘E4A’, is designed to provide the KAUST community – graduate students, employees, researchers, and postdocs – with a broad introduction to entrepreneurship with a particular emphasis on…
Plaksha University TLP: Challenge Lab Final Pitch Event
Tech Leaders Program: Challenge Lab Final Pitch Event Global Academic Programs Director, David Law, proudly represented SCET at the Plaksha University Tech Leaders Program Challenge Lab Final Pitch Event. Plaksha University is India’s largest collective philanthropy effort to build a new model of engineering education and research. Backed by 70+ academic and business leaders from…
String Theory and The Five Dimensions of Data Ethics
Business’ “Theory of Everything”? Physicists have long sought a Theory of Everything, a single theoretical framework that explains and ties together the physical world at every scale, from the sub-atomic to the cosmic. One of the leading theoretical frameworks advanced toward this end has been string theory. In the business world, might we find a…
Fall 2021 Collider Cup Profile: Alina Su, CEO & Founder, NovaXS Biotech Corp
In September 2020, Alina Su (Bioengineering ’22) and her team, CTO Alex Zou, a Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley, Jonathan Xing, Booth Business School MBA, and Berkeley Bioengineering Professor Irina Conboy, founded NovaXS Biotech Corp. The team also won the Fall 2021 Collider Cup hosted by the Sutardja Center of Entrepreneurship & Technology at the University of…
Highlights from the Innovation X Roundtable – Future of Work: Digital Transformation, Emerging Technologies, and Automation
Digital transformation is the process of using digital technologies to create new or change existing business processes in accommodation to rapidly evolving business and market requirements. COVID-19 is certainly speeding up the process of digital transformation. In 2020, according to International Data Corporation (IDC), worldwide spending on digital transformation reached $1.3 trillion. By 2025, it…
From fighting cancer to founding and investing startups, life advice from Surbhi Sarna, Founder and CEO of nVision Medical, Group Partner at Y Combinator
In a special talk given at the SCET’s Spring 2022 A. Richard Newton Lecture Series, Cal alumni Surbhi Sarna tells the miraculous story of her difficult journey to founding nVision Medical and gives valuable advice to young entrepreneurs seeking investments as a current Group Partner at Y Combinator. On February 1, 2022, Surbhi Sarna shared…
Next trends of the gaming industry with Kevin Chou, founder of SuperLayer, Rally, Forte, and Kabam
In a special talk given at the SCET’s Fall 2021 Newton Lecture Series, distinguished founders Kevin Chou and Mike Li tell the audience their stories of founding multiple startups and give advice to young entrepreneurs. “Go figure out what’s weird and wacky about yourself. Find your weird curiosity and try to think about how to…