The Berkeley-Haas Entrepreneurship Program is a program and the primary locus for the study and promotion of entrepreneurship and new enterprise development at the

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History

The Berkeley-Haas Entrepreneurship Program was founded in 1991 through a gift from the late W. Howard Lester, chairman of Williams-Sonoma, Inc.

Speaker series

The Berkeley-Haas Entrepreneurship Program sponsors three speaker series, two of which are open to members of the community as well as students, faculty and staff: * UC Berkeley Entrepreneurs Forum – Presentations held twice a semester during the academic year featuring a networking hour followed by a presentation on a topic of interest to entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and members of supporting professional organizations. * Entrepreneurial Best Practices Series – Events designed to help entrants to the UC Berkeley Startup Competition and the Global Social Venture Competition develop their business ideas. * A. Richard Newton Distinguished Innovator Lecture Series/Life as an Entrepreneur Series – Events featuring distinguished entrepreneurs from organizations at various stages of development and representing a broad range of industries. Entrepreneurs talk about how their organizations were created and share the lessons they learned. This speaker series is only open to students.

Notable alumni

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, MBA '96 – Hanke founded Keyhole, Inc., which eventually became

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Peter Vlastelica and Jack Kloster, both MBA '06- Vlastelica and Kloster founded

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, which aims to be the main social website for sports fans, players and others.
Danae Ringelmann and Eric Schell, both MBA '08- The two, along with Slava Rubin, founded

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, a crowdfunding platform for all creative, cause, and entrepreneurial projects.
Brett Wilson and John Hughes, MBA '07 – The two entrepreneurs founded

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, a programmatic advertising platform for video advertising, and won the 2007 Bplan competition. The company went public on the NASDAQ (TUBE) in 2014 and was acquired by Adobe in 2017 for $540 million.

References

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