Wednesday, December 3, 2014 5-6:30PM Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720 Come hear Jack McCauley, VP of Engineering for Oculus, share his 30+ years of experience shaping the video gaming and entertainment-wear industries. Jack's talk will include time for Q&A and a demo of the latest...
Fireside Chat with Max Levchin: Data, Fintech, & How to Solve Hard, Valuable & Fun Problems Thanks to low-cost sensors of every imaginable type, near-ubiquitous wireless broadband, advances in distributed computing and storage, data is becoming our most plentiful, and most under-exploited commodity. The insights mined...
Gagan Biyani, Co-Founder and CEO, Sprig; and Co-Founder of Udemy Matt Kent, Co-Founder and Engineering Lead, Sprig Join us for refreshments and conversation with Gagan Biyani, Econ '08, co-founder of two of the hottest startups in the Bay Area--Sprig and Udemy--and creator of the popular Growth Hackers Conference. Along the...
On Wednesday, Sept. 10 from 5-6PM, The Foundry@CITRIS, CET Venture Lab and Berkeley Skydeck will be co-hosting the first in a year-long series of monthly presentations by WilmerHale on legal issues that startup founders need to know. This month, Joe Wyatt, Partner of the Corporate Practice Group at WilmerHale, will be speaking...
Oakland, CA - Today Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-CA) toured the UC Berkeley’s research and innovation facilities including the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS), CITRIS Invention Lab and the Marvell Nanofabrication Lab. This tour was part of the Democratic Make it...
The road to start-up success is littered with great ideas. Turning an idea into a prototype, a viable business plan, and an effective pitch for funding is hard enough; converting that plan into a profitable business is more difficult still. That’s why the stats on...