Speakers
Feb
4
Cameron Baradar
The House
Founder & Partner
Feb
11
Pamela Webber
99designs
COO
Feb
25
Liz Klinger
Lioness Health
Founder & CEO
Mar
6
Angie Carillo
3X Founder and Consultant
at Higia Technologies
Mar
11
Karen Taylor
Founder and CEO @
Onederful
Mar
18
Lynn Perkins
UrbanSitter
Founder & CEO
Apr
3
Joel Flory
VSCO
Founder & CEO
Apr
10
David Cramer
Sentry
Founder & CEO
Apr
15
Preston Silverman
RaiseMe
Founder & CEO
Apr
17
George Mathew
Kespry
CEO & Chairman
April
22
Garry Tan
Initialized Capital
Founder & Partner
Apr
24
Paul Coletta
Urban Remedy
Founder & CEO
May
1
Pejman Nozad
Pear VC
Founder & Partner
Assignments
💡 Read: “How to Get Startup Ideas” by Paul Graham, 🎨 Research what 99designs does, 👀 Check out Pamela Webber’s LinkedIn, 🎫 Get ticket for Pamela Webber event on Eventbrite
💡 Read: "Top 18 Startup Mistakes" by Paul Graham, 🚀 Research what Jumpstart does, 👀 Check out Ben Herman’s LinkedIn, 🎫 Get ticket for the Ben Herman event on Eventbrite
💡 Watch: "The Mom Test" synthesis on Youtube, 📖 Read this short summary of "The Mom Test", 🚀 Research what Lioness does, 👀 Check out Liz Klinger LinkedIn, 🎫 Get ticket for the Liz Klinger event on Eventbrite
About
There’s no better place to explore building a startup than during your time as a student at UC Berkeley. Surrounded by ambitious and talented people and industry-leading professors, there’s endless potential to create the next big thing. This course is designed to teach and inspire students to use their knowledge to build startups, and also to hear industry leaders come and talk to you about their process and journey, as well as answer any of your own questions.
We will be going over the basic building blocks of a successful startup and connect this knowledge to emerging fields. Over the course of the semester, you will get into groups and go through the actual process of ideating and creating a startup idea that is intriguing to investors, culminating in a pitch to real venture capitalists! In addition, we will be providing an overview of the startup scene at Berkeley, pointing out resources ready to help students get a head start.
The course meets one to two times per week (Mondays and/or Wednesdays). The class will have speaker classes which will feature entrepreneurs who share their experiences and knowledge in a particular area of building a startup. It will also feature guest professors and introduce you to resources on campus to help you build your venture.[2 units].
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Staff
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Advisors: Jimmy Liu, Zuhayeer Musa, Cameron Baradar, Thomas Liao, Harika Kalluri, Cathleen Jia, Parker Cardwell, Aaron Lin, Daniel Andrews
Faculty advisor: Scott Shenker
Policies
This class has a strict P/NP criteria. If a student (A) misses more than 1 lecture (unexcused) OR (B) misses more than 2 lectures (excused) OR (C) fails to complete 70% of the assignments, they will fail. Everyone else passes. Additionally, Eventbrite tickets are necessary for attendance. Any attendance without an Eventbrite ticket will count as 0.75 of an attendance.