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April 2007
This has been an exciting and
busy spring for the Lester Center. Opening with a gala
celebration honoring John Doerr as this year’s
recipient of our Lifetime Achievement in Entrepreneurship
and Innovation Award, the new year moved on through
the various events leading up to the finals of our two
fine business plan competitions - the Global
Social Business Competition and the UC
Berkeley Business Plan Competition.
We have also strengthened our programs for members
of the entrepreneurial community, presenting the Entrepeneurial
Best Practices Series to consistently packed houses
and preparing to offer another iteration of our Venture
Capital Executive Program in conjunction with the
Haas School’s Center for Executive Development
for those interested in professional careers in venture
capital.
We continue our work with Intel to spread the teaching
of entrepreneurship in developing economies and are
particularly proud of the opportunity to host distinguished
entrepreneurship faculty from 12 countries at the Haas
School during the second half of April at a Global
Faculty Colloquium on entrepreneurship.
We will wrap up the year with the finals of the UC
Berkeley Business Plan Competition on April 26, where
the public is invited to hear about some of the best
new ideas to come out of the Cal community.
Finally, on May 17, we will recognize our outstanding
students, as well as those who have made this a memorable
year at the Lester Center’s awards dinner.
Serving healthy home-style school
lunches in the San Francisco Bay Area earned the Berkeley
MBA team Revolution Foods the $25,000 grand prize at
the eighth annual Global
Social Venture Competition on Friday, April 13.[Full
Story]
Forty-seven professors and
officials from 12 countries are converging at the Haas
School for two weeks of entrepreneurship training at
the inaugural Technology Entrepreneurship Education
Global Faculty Colloquium. The colloquium was designed
by the Lester Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation
with assistance from the Center for Executive Development.
It is part of the Intel + UC Berkeley Global Entrepreneurship
Education Program, which aims to fosterentrepreneurship
education and entrepreneurial activity around the world.[Full
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Eight teams with business solutions
addressing health care, media viewing habits, and winemaking
will compete for $45,000 in prize money at the finals
of the UC Berkeley Business Plan Competition, being
held on Thursday, April 26.
The competition gives UC Berkeley
students and alumni, as well as local entrepreneurs,
the opportunity to work together to turn innovative
ideas into real businesses. The finals will be presented
as part of a special UC Berkeley Entrepreneurs Forum,
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Faculty from the Lester Center will be teaching their second Venture Capital Executive Program May 21 - May 25 in coordination with The Berkeley Center for Executive Development.
The intensive program is designed for investment professionals, economic policy advisors, and entrepreneurs striving to gain advanced, results-oriented training in the venture capital process.
For more information or to register for the class visit: http://execdev.haas.berkeley.edu/ApplicationFiles/web/WebFrame.cfm?web_id=686
This summer the Lester Center will once again send faculty overseas as part of the Technology Entrepreneurship
Education Initiative. The Lester Center has been working with Intel for nearly two years to bring the Theory to
Practice entrepreneurship training to educators worldwide. Since 2005, seminars have been conducted in Dublin, Madrid, Amsterdam,
Gdansk, Budapest, Sofia, Mumbai, Bucharest, Istanbul, Cairo, Moscow, Beijing, Sao Paulo, and Monterey [Mexico].
The two day sessions, each with about 20 participants from leading local colleges and universities, provide a highly leveraged
and efficient way of enhancing the entrepreneurship training to their respective institutions. The seminar participants have also
found the sessions helpful in forming on-going collaborations among themselves and their institutions.
On Thursday, May 17th the Lester
Center will hold its year-end dinner honoring winners
of Fellowships and awards given out over the course of
the years as well as members of the Berkeley
Entrepreneurs Forum. This invitation-only event is
an annual tradition providing an opportunity for members
of the entrepreneurship community at UC Berkeley to come
together in celebration.
We would like to thank the
following firms for renewing their sponsorship of the
UC Berkeley Entrepreneurs Forum:
Claremont Creek Ventures
Deloitte & Touche
Fenwick & West
Intel Capital
Siemens Technology to Business Center
The Entrepreneurs Association
thanks the following firms for sponsoring the intramural
Venture Capital Investment Competition:
Claremont Creek Ventures
David Geisler
The Lester Center and the UC
Berkeley Business Plan Competition are pleased to announce
the following Bronze sponsors of the 2007 competition:
Advanced Technology Ventures
Claremont Creek Ventures
David Hartwig
Heller Ehrman LLP
Intel Corporation
Morganthaler Ventures
Siemens Technology-to-Business Center
Silicon Valley Bank
Sonenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP
Sony Electronics
Versant Ventures
The Lester Center and the Global Social Venture Competition
wish to thank the following sponsors of the 2007 competition:
Gray Matters
Morrison & Foerster LLP
Opus Prize Foundation
The Lester Center wishes to
recognize and thank the following individuals for joining
in honoring John Doerr as the 2007 recipient of the
Lester Center's Lifetime Achievement Award :
Bill Campbell
Fenwick & West LLP
Google
Intuit
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Morgan Stanley
Alsop Louie Management
Sanford Robertson
The following individuals are recognized for their
kind support of the Lester Center
Brian Kincaid
Thomas Kintner
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