Lester Center Video Library

The Lester Center makes videos of many events and presentations available to the public:

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L&S 5: What is Entrepreneurship? - Videos
Berkeley Entrepreneurs Forum Videos

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The Top 10 Mistakes of Entrepreneurs (1:23:58)

The UC Berkeley Startup Competition (Bplan) proudly welcomed Guy Kawasaki to the Haas School of Business on March 7, 2013. Kawasaki, former chief evangelist of Apple and co-founder of Garage Technology Ventures, explained the top ten mistakes that entrepreneurs make. His talk covered all stages of a startup from inception to exit.

Entrepreneurship, Competitiveness and Reshoring (6:52)

Lester Center Faculty Member Mark Coopersmith and his colleagues at clean tech company ETwater recently “reshored” manufacturing to America from China, drawing media attention. Click the link above to read about it and watch Coopersmith discuss the issue. Excerpted from a panel discussion on "Made in America", HuffPost Live, originally aired on October 1, 2012 - for the complete discusssion, click here.

Social Impact Investing (1:06:00)

Lester Center director of social entrepreneurship Dr. Jennifer Walske interviews

Mark Kramer, Founder and Managing Director, FSG, and
John Goldstein, Managing Director, Imprint Capital.

They debate the various methods that investors have used to measuring impact, how much variation still exists in the field of impact investing, and what this implies to both social entrepreneurs and socially responsible corporations engaged in creating “shared value.”

Featured Haas Alumni

Danae Ringelmann (MBA 08)

Danae Ringelmann is the co-founder of the innovative crowd-funding site Indiegogo.com. In this video, she describes how a career in finance, her experience at Haas, and a lot of determination helped her create and develop a site to fund people's dreams.

Priya Haji (MBA 03)

Priya Haji founded World of Good, a successful social venture that distributes a retail line of globally sourced fair trade gifts and accessories, which was purchased by eBay. In this video, she describes her new social venture, SaveUp, that will help Americans save money and pay down debt.

*Entrepreneurial Best Practices Series* 2010-2011 Season The Entrepreneurial Best Practices Series brings the best practitioners from the Berkeley and Silicon Valley communities to the Haas School of Business to speak about the practical aspects of entrepreneurial activity. The series is timed to match the academic year and also the business plan competition season, particularly the UC Berkeley Business Plan Competition and the Global Social Venture Competition. Entrepreneurs from the UC Berkeley campus and the external community are encouraged to attend.	*IP & Legal Issues* *Getting Your Story Straight* *How to Write a Business Plan* *Designing for the Base of the Pyramid: Business Models that Work for the Poor* *How to Build An Ad Based Business* *Financial Modeling/Management* How Great Ideas Get Funded: Partnering with Venture Investors Venture and Angel Financing: A Panel of Perspectives

2013 Global Social Venture Competition: Global Finals and Ideas to Impact Conference April 12, 2012 The Global Social Venture Competition is the largest and longest-running social business plan competition providing mentoring, exposure, and $45,000 in prizes.

	*14th Annual UC Berkeley Startup Competition Finalist Presentations and Awards Ceremony* April 26, 2012 The UC Berkeley Startup Competition is the marquee entrepreneurship event at UC Berkeley, nurturing entrepreneurial action across the campus community.

2011 Global Social Venture Competition Finalist Presentations and Ideas to Impact Conference April 8-9, 2011 The Global Social Venture Competition is the largest and longest-running social business plan competition providing mentoring, exposure, and $45,000 in prizes.

	*13th Annual UC Berkeley Business Plan Competition Finalist Presentations and Awards Ceremony* April 28, 2011 The UC Berkeley Business Plan Competition is the marquee entrepreneurship event at UC Berkeley, nurturing entrepreneurial action across the campus community.

12th Annual UC Berkeley Business Plan Competition Finalist Presentations and Awards Ceremony April 29, 2010 The UC Berkeley Business Plan Competition is the marquee entrepreneurship event at UC Berkeley, nurturing entrepreneurial action across the campus community.

	L&S 5: What is Entrepreneurship? March 30, 2010 Chris Anderson Editor in chief, Wired Magazine Author of The Long Tail (more about Chris Anderson)

Berkeley Entrepreneurs Forum: The Greening of Health: the Convergence of Health and Sustainability March 18, 2010 featuring Julie Gerberding, Former Director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and other distinguished panelists

	L&S 5: What is Entrepreneurship? February 9, 2010 Randy Komisar General Partner, Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield and Byers Author of The Monk & the Riddle (more about Randy Komisar)

Former Adobe CEO Bruce Chizen speaks on Corporate Entrepreneurship in Jennifer Walske's L&S 5 course, September 22, 2009. More about Bruce Chizen

	The Innovation Ecosystem and Its Role in Shaping Our Renewable Future by Vinod Khosla, recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award for 2009. September 17, 2009.

Innovating at Scale within Google presented by the UC Berkeley Entrepreneurs Forum August 27, 2009

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