BEA Newsletter - October 25, 2021

We are super excited to inform and invite you all to the 1st UC Berkeley Entrepreneurship by BEA. We will share the detailed agenda this week including keynotes speakers, founder and investor panels, quick-fire pitches, and networking / happy hour with leaders across UC Berkeley. SAVE THE DATE!!!

- Collaboration Area for Entrepreneurs: (New) 09:00 am - 12:00 pm - Sign up

Research shows the importance of physical proximity on social ties. We are happy to inform you that BEA is providing everyone collaboration area to socialize, collaborate, brainstorm or network with your classmates. N440+N444 is open for you all every Thursday, from 09:00 AM to 12:00 PM with some morning coffee involved. Look forward to seeing you there.

- Founder-Investor mixer with Stanford GSB (Hot) - Survey

HVCC and BEA are planning a student Founder & Investor mixer with Stanford GSB in November. For those of you interested, we ask that you fill out this survey so we can start planning accordingly! 

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Announcements

- Life Sciences Entrepreneurship Center (New)

UC Berkeley’s new Life Sciences Entrepreneurship Center Provides Company Start-Up and Launch Support to Berkeley’s Life Sciences Innovators. For more information about the Berkeley Life Sciences Entrepreneurship Center, and for ways to get involved, please visit https://iande.berkeley.edu/lsec.

- Hatch Lab - Apply by Tuesday, October 26th

Are you a University of California, Berkeley student with little or no entrepreneurship experience? Do you want to explore new ideas and meet your future co-founders & teammates? Want to form a team for Berkeley StEP or National Science Foundation (NSF) #ICorps? Are you ready to build a startup over a weekend and pitch it to industry leaders? Then thisHatch Lab is for YOU!

Eligibility - Any UC Berkeley student, postdoc, or faculty may apply to this program with or without a team. At least one team member should be present during every session.

- Berkeley China Summit 2021 - Register - November 12th - 13th 5 PM - 8:30 PM

Berkeley China Summit (BCS), founded in 2016, is an annual conference held at UC Berkeley every fall, with the mission to highlight Berkeley‘s strengths and to encourage bilateral discussion and collaboration between the US and China. Over the past 5 years, we’ve invited over 100 high-profile speakers, including Nobel Laureates, Turing Award Winners, business leaders, entrepreneurs, investors, and government officials.

Hot Opportunities

- Work with Berkeley Nobel Laureate, Saul Perlmutter:
We are looking for 1 or more students interested in developing a software prototype and potentially commercializing the technology in the sector of software-based audio/vision meeting platforms (like Zoom). Contact Mike Cohen(mike.c@berkeley.edu

- Skillful.ly is hiring!!! (UC Berkeley Founded)
We are looking for 1 or more students interested in developing a software prototype and potentially commercializing the technology in the sector of software-based audio/vision meeting platforms (like Zoom). Contact Mike Cohen(mike.c@berkeley.edu

Resources

• BEGIN (Berkeley Gateway to Innovation) - It all starts here!

• Techstars Entrepreneur’s Toolkit

• Berkeley-Haas Entrepreneurship (BHEP) Mentoring Hours

• Berkeley Law - FORM + FUND

        Free from Haas & Suggested Resources ;

• Pitchbook

• WSJ

• CB Insights Newsletter

• VentureBeat

• FT #Entrepreneurshi
  
  2022 Spring Entrepreneurship Courses

• Startup Street Smarts: How to Understand and Influence People from Day 1 through IPO - UC Berkeley Sutardja Center

• Metaverses, NFTs and Creator Economies with Blockchain - UC Berkeley Sutardja Center

• Build a Blockchain Startup: Decentralized Application (dApp) Development and Entrepreneurship - UC Berkeley Sutardja Center

• AltMeat: Product Design of Plant-Based Foods -  - UC Berkeley Sutardja Center
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Contact to us

Have other questions or suggestions? Interested to speak at our virtual panel/ upcoming events or know someone would be a great candidate? Fill the events/initiatives form or drop us a message here.

Your Leadership Team
Please welcome our new rockstar team members; Abhay Singh, Asriel Han, Jingwen Hu, Lovre Soric, and Yuguang Yuan

Co-Presidents  - Maggie Lau & Dogakan Toka
VP Alumni - David Mansi 
VP Innovation - Lizi Feng
VP Mentorship- Jingwen Hu
VP Programs - Shruti Sethi
VP Partnerships Internal - Lovre Soric
VP Partnerships External - Yuguang Yuan & Abhay Singh
VP Social - Asriel Han
VP Technology - Wei Zhu