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Lester Center


The Lester Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation is
"the place" at Berkeley for entrepreneurial development.

Get Involved: attend the Entrepreneurs Forum or the Best Practices Series, take a course, participate in a business plan competition, meet with a mentor, apply for a fellowship, read our newsletter, watch a video, or visit our Facebook page.

 

Successful Entrepreneurs at Haas


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News & Events:

The Lester Center Celebrates
GLOBAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP WEEK
November 16-22, 2009

Berkeley Entrepreneurs Forum features finals of the
Intel+UC Berkeley Technology Entrepreneurship Challenge

The Entrepreneurial Best Practices Series features the topic:
Internet Marketing & Business Strategies

Global Entrepreneurship Week


The Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers
recognizes the Lester Center as one of the
world's top entrepreneurship centers

GCEC

Auroa Biofuels
Haas Startup MojaMix
(Norberto Guimaraes, MBA 09)
featured in Fast Company Magazine

Auroa Biofuels
Nikhil Arora and Alejandro Velez,
BS 09, founders of Haas startup
BTTR Ventures, are
named by BusinessWeek as finalists:
America's Best Young Entrepreneurs

Auroa BiofuelsFormer Adobe CEO & Chairman

Bruce Chizen speaks on
Corporate Entrepreneurship

in Jennifer Walske's L&S 5 Course
(more L&S 5 videos)
Haas startup Carsala, founded by
Tyler Elliston and Raif Barbaros, MBA 08,
featured in the New York Times

NPR      The Future of NYT

PACTHaas Entrepreneurs Denby and Kibbey's PACT featured in New York Times article by Sara Beckman


The Future of NYT

Auroa Biofuels
New York Times article features
new technology of Haas Entrepreneurs' Aurora Biofuels
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News & Events

 

Venture Capital Executive Program (Nov. 30 - Dec. 4)
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November Innovation
newsletter available

Haas alumnus Patrick Awuah receives Aspen Institute award for creating African university

Haas alumni social venture
World of Good featured in the San Francisco Chronicle

Haas undergrad venture Bamboo Lota is one of three finalists in MTV/NYSE
"Movers and Shakers" competition

Lifetime Achievement Award winner Vinod Khosla talks on The Innovation Ecosystem and Its Role in Shaping Our Renewable Future - YouTube

Newton Distinguished Innovator Lecture Series - Life as an Entrepreneur Series, Tuesdays at 5 PM

Haas startup Carsala featured in the
New York Times

Wall Street Journal Interviews
Jerry Engel on Business Plans & Competitions

New Leadership for
the Lester Center

The POWER of our NETWORK:
the Lester Center assembles
over 300 experts to serve
Berkeley entrepreneurs

Lester Center - Haas Entrepreneurship Program Ranked #7 worldwide by USN&WR

Lester Center - Haas Entrepreneurship Program Ranked #6 worldwide by Financial Times

Special Invitation to
L&S Students

 

 

More News & Events

Event Calendar

Innovation Newsletter


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Our Mission

 

"Working with entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, business leaders, policy makers, scholars and students, the Lester Center focuses the resources of UC Berkeley to stimulate the formation, management and growth of new enterprises; to encourage innovation in new and established companies; and to teach the process of successful entrepreneurship and business innovation."