Professional Partnerships

As part of our mission to train successful entrepreneurs who drive the global economy, the Lester Center partners with institutions and companies throughout the United States and from around the world to create programs that expand the scope and reach of entrepreneurship at Haas.

The Lester Center has partnered with Intel to create the Intel+UC Berkeley Global Entrepreneurship Education Partnership. This tripartate program includes the Technology to Practice Seminars, the Global Faculty Colloquium and the Intel+UC Berkeley Technology Entrepreneurship Challenge.

The Lester Center has partnered with the UC Berkeley Business Plan Competition organizing committee to create a series of workshops on Entrepreneurial Best Practices that are available throughout the academic year. These workshops can help the beginning entrepreneur to make the right decisions about his opportunity and business structure.

The Lester Center is pleased to continue its long standing relationship with the Berkeley Entrepreneurship Laboratory, which provides low cost space to start-ups begun by current Cal students and recent alumni.

The Lester Center and the Keiretsu Forum work together to strengthen the Bay Area entrepreneurial climate by facilitating the interaction between the Haas School’s entrepreneurship students and Bay Area entrepreneurs and investors.

The Lester Center continues to work with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to facilitate the creation of new businesses by licensing laboratory technology.

Other Affiliated links:

• Bay Area Startup Network, holds local speaker events.
• East Bay Business Times, get local business news updates, news by industry, and information on networking and marketing opportunities.
• Entrepreneurs Resource Network, a non-profit corporation providing resources, seminars, and networking opportunities for entrepreneurs, start-ups and expanding businesses.
• SVASE, the largest and fastest growing nonprofit association in Northern California dedicated to helping early stage entrepreneurs across all technology sectors build successful companies.
• The Women's Calendar, the largest listing of women's events in the world.
• Astia (formerly the Women's Technology Cluster) selects and houses start-up information technology businesses in software, multimedia, Internet, infrastructure, telecommunications, wireless, digital media, business process automation or any area broadly defined as IT.

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