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This is the Silicon Valley insiders’ guide to entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurs & investors from YouTube, Khan Academy, Rotten Tomatoes, Chegg, Andreessen Horowitz, Bain Capital, etc., join the lecturers to share concepts and experiences along the startup lifecycle.
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This is a program on entrepreneurship, by entrepreneurs, for everyone. It gives students the Silicon Valley insiders’ view of startups, as its lecturers and guest speakers share their extensive experience in launching, growing, and funding successful start ups.
The lecturer's proceeds from this course will be donated to nonprofits in the education space.
Lectures, readings, discussions, and quizzes will cover core concepts along the startup life cycle:
VALIDATE: Idea and business validation (Why? Why Now? Why You?); Market sizing and analysis.
RECRUIT: Recruiting and incentivizing cofounders and advisors; attracting and retaining a great team.
BUILD: User-centric design and efficient product development to Minimal Viable Product (MVP) launch and beyond.
FUND: Bootstrapping; accelerators and incubators; angel and seed financing; raising venture capital.
SCALE: Applying Lean Startup Methodology to achieve Product-Market Fit; Growth hacking strategies for sales and customer acquisition; distribution partnerships; scaling to liquidity events (M&A and IPOs).
**** Guest speakers include the entrepreneurs and investors behind some of the biggest Silicon Valley successes in Fintech, Edtech, Gaming, Fashion, Healthtech. Gig Economy, Sustainability, B2B and B2C SaaS, Media & Entertainment:
Sal Khan (Khan Academy)
Steve Chen (Co-founder, YouTube)
Connie Chen (Andreessen Horowitz)
Aaref Hilaly (Bain Capital)
Patrick Lee (Co-founder, Rotten Tomatoes)
Osman Rashid (Co-founder, Chegg)
Holly Liu (Co-founder, Kabam)
Hasan Rizvi (CPO, Doma – IPO 2021)
Marla Beck (Blue Mercury- acquired by Macy’s)
Jahanzeb Sherwani (CEO ScreenHero – acquired by Slack)
Jasmine Crowe (CEO, Goodr)
Umaimah Mendhro (CEO, Vida Fashions)
Amy Coveny (Quake Capital)
Ahmed Khaishgi (CEO, Squaretrade – acquired by AllState)
Charles Huang (Co-founder, Guitar Hero)
Carlos Cashman (CEO, Thras.io)
This program will give you the skills and confidence to:
start and help scale tech and non-tech startups
start or join social impact ventures (social entrepreneurship)
bring startup thinking and values to research and academic institutions, small- to-midsize enterprises (SMEs), and large corporations (intrapreneurship)
Learn how to:
VALIDATE: Idea and business validation (Why? Why Now? Why You?); Market sizing and analysis.
RECRUIT: Recruiting cofounders; attracting advisors and building a great team.
BUILD: User centric design and efficient product development to Minimal Viable Product (MVP) launch and beyond.
FUND: Bootstrapping; angel and seed financing; accelerators and incubators; raising venture capital
SCALE: Applying Lean Startup Methodology to achieve Product-Market Fit; Growth hacking strategies for sales and customer acquisition; distribution partnerships; scaling to liquidity events (M&A and IPOs).
This program is offered in collaboration with edX, which is an online program manager (OPM) company. The roles and responsibilities of the OPM partner in the offering of the program are to provide the learning platform for the delivery of academic content, technical support for said platform, marketing support for the courses and programs, and creation of any credentials earned by the learner. UC Berkeley and UC Berkeley faculty are responsible for the creation of accessible academic content, instruction, grading and assessment.
