The Mayfield Fellows Program is a university program that offers students in-depth training and experience in high-tech entrepreneurship. The program, originally called the "Technology Ventures Co-op" was founded in 1996 at Stanford University and expanded in 2001 to include the

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. The two programs each have a slightly different focus. At Stanford, the students are juniors, senior, and co-terminal masters students, primarily in engineering and science. At Berkeley, the students are generally graduate students in business or engineering. The students benefit from doing case studies in the classroom, interning at high-tech startup companies, and meeting with senior-level mentors from those companies in the industry.

Stanford University

At Stanford University, the Mayfield Fellows Program (MFP) offers an unparalleled opportunity for students to develop theoretical understanding, practical knowledge and leadership skills needed for starting and growing technology companies. Each year 12 students are selected to participate in this nine-month program, combining a sequence of courses, mentoring and networking activities, and a paid internship at a Silicon Valley startup. The students enter a program that covers

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, finance,

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. The student Fellows are later introduced to various VC firms' portfolio companies for a summer internship.

Alumni and Companies Founded

* Alex Gurevich (2005) - sayheyhey, ooma *

Armen Berjikly Armen Berjikly is an Armenian-American entrepreneur and technologist, known as the founder and chief executive officer of both artificial intelligence company Kanjoya, and social network Experience Project. Berjikly's professional focus is on ...

(2001) -

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, Motive Software * Amy Chang (1999) - Accompany * Ben Jun (1996) - Cryptography * Ben Olding (1999) - txteagle *

Camille Hearst Camille Hearst is a female African-American entrepreneur and innovator, credited in several online news publications for her decades-long contribution to the technology, social network, digital music service and product design sectors. In additio ...

(2004) - Kit * Chris Gori (1996) - Cryptography *

Clara Shih Clara Chung-wai Shih (born January 11, 1982) is an American businesswoman. She is the CEO and co-founder of Hearsay Social. Early life and education Shih was born in Hong Kong. Her father, a math professor in Hong Kong, later became an electr ...

(2004) - Hearsay Labs * Dave Merrill (2001) - Sifteo, Elroy Air * Eileen Long (1998) - FairSoftware * Graham Miller (1998) - Marketcetera * Guha Jayachandran (2003) - Cruxlux *

Jeff Seibert Jeff Seibert (born July 27, 1985) is an American entrepreneur and angel investor. He is best known for co-founding Crashlytics, which in a little over a year was acquired by Twitter for over $100 million in 2013 (later valued at $259.5 million ...

(2007) - Increo, Crashlytics * Jonah Greenberger (2008) - Bright * Jonathan Berger (2004) - Maroon Labs * Josh McFarland (1999) - TellApart * Josh Reeves (2005) - Gusto * Josh Schwartzapel (2007) - Cooliris * Justin Rosenstein (2003) - Asana * Justin Smith (2003) - Prophetic Media * Karthik Rau (1999) - SignalFx * Kelly Bayer Rosmarin (1998) - CustomInsight *

Kevin Systrom Kevin Systrom (born December 30, 1983) is an American computer programmer and entrepreneur. He co-founded Instagram, the world's largest photo sharing website, along with Mike Krieger. Systrom was included on the list of America's Richest Entrep ...

(2005) - burbn/

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* Kit Rodgers (1996) - Cryptography * Mark Shaw (1997) - Guidewire Software, Strava * Melissa Miao (2001) - CMP Healthcare *

Mike Krieger Michel Krieger (born March 4, 1986) is a Brazilian-American entrepreneur and software engineer who co-founded Instagram along with Kevin Systrom, and served as its CTO. Instagram expanded from a few million users to 1 billion monthly active users ...

(2007) - burbn/

* Moritz Sudhof (2011) - Motive Software *

Nathan Eagle Nathan Eagle is an American technology executive. He is best known as the CEO and co-founder of Jana (formerly txteagle), a company that subsidizes mobile internet access in emerging markets. He has also served as a professor at both Harvard Un ...

(1999) - Jana * Nolan Glantz (1996) - Cithaeron Partners/The Cantor Exchange * Ping Wang (2001) - VAE Corporation * Scott Bowie (1998) - Zao Technology Innovators * Scott Kleper (1999) - Context Optional * Steve Garrity (2004) - Hearsay Labs * Tristan Harris (2006) - Apture * Vivian Chiang (1998) - Orbit Baby * Yael Pasternak (1998) - MayasMom

References

External links

Mayfield Fellows Program at StanfordMayfield Fellows Program at Berkeley
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