{"id":121,"date":"2009-10-20T21:10:05","date_gmt":"2009-10-21T04:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freemanding.com\/blog\/?p=121"},"modified":"2009-10-20T21:10:06","modified_gmt":"2009-10-21T04:10:06","slug":"life-as-an-entrepreneur-speaker-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freemanding.com\/blog\/20091020\/life-as-an-entrepreneur-speaker-series.html","title":{"rendered":"MBA294.1 Life as an Entrepreneur Speaker Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite course at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.haas.berkeley.edu\/\">Haas School of Business<\/a> right now is an elective course called &#8220;MBA294.1  Life as an Entrepreneur&#8221;. \u00c2\u00a0It is jointed hosted by Haas School of Business and the <a href=\"http:\/\/cet.berkeley.edu\/\">Center for\u00c2\u00a0Entrepreneurship\u00c2\u00a0and Technology (CET)<\/a> at UC Berkeley&#8217;s College of\u00c2\u00a0Engineering. \u00c2\u00a0Basically each week one guest speaker was invited to give one hour speech, either at Bechtel Engineering Center in the College of Engineering, or Arthur Andersen Auditorium in Haas School of Business. \u00c2\u00a0Most speakers are\u00c2\u00a0successful\u00c2\u00a0entrepreneurs or venture capitalists (usually these successful VCs used to be great entrepreneurs as well.).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cet.berkeley.edu\/teaching\/lecture-series\">This web page at CET center<\/a> lists all the schedule and each speaker&#8217;s name and photo. \u00c2\u00a0Among all the speakers so far, I particularly enjoyed following speakers:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Ted Hoff, Inventor of the Microprocessor\" src=\"http:\/\/cet.berkeley.edu\/images\/hoff_e198.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"60\" height=\"90\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Maurice Gunderson, Senior Partner, CMEA\" src=\"http:\/\/cet.berkeley.edu\/images\/gunderson_e198.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"60\" height=\"90\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Charles Giancarlo, Managing Director, Silver Lake\" src=\"http:\/\/cet.berkeley.edu\/images\/giancarlo_e198.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"60\" height=\"90\" \/><\/p>\n<p>From left to right:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"background-color: #ffffff;\">Ted Hoff, Inventor of the Microprocessor. \u00c2\u00a0I enjoyed his story of inventing the first generation CPU Intel 8086\/8088.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"background-color: #ffffff;\">Maurice Gunderson, Senior Partner, CMEA. \u00c2\u00a0Mr. Gunderson is a veteran in energy industry.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"background-color: #ffffff;\">Charles Giancarlo, Managing Director, Silver Lake. \u00c2\u00a0Mr. Giancarlo used to be one of the most influential people at Cisco, LinkSys and Avaya. \u00c2\u00a0He is really a senior executive with tons of experiences in Telecommunication, computer network and IT industry.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Just today Oct 20th, the speaker is a cool young guy Charles Huang, co-creator of Guitar Hero.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Charles Huang, co-creator of Guitar Hero\" src=\"http:\/\/cet.berkeley.edu\/images\/huang_e198.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"60\" height=\"90\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As I am an international student, I am not familiar with the name of Guitar Hero. \u00c2\u00a0Now I learned it is a very popular music video game in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>Actually &#8220;MBA294.1 Life as an Entrepreneur&#8221; is just one of the many\u00c2\u00a0&#8220;Speaker Series&#8221; courses under the same umbrella of MBA 294 series:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Course \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 Title<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">MBA294.1\tLife as an Entrepreneur<br \/>\nMBA294.2\tReal Estate<br \/>\nMBA294.3\tCareers in Marketing<br \/>\nMBA294.4\tMarket-Based Approaches to Poverty<br \/>\nMBA294.5\tInvestment Management Spkr Series<br \/>\nMBA294.6\tMicrofinance Speaker Series<br \/>\nMBA294.7\tManaging Internet &amp; Digital Media<br \/>\nMBA294.8\tGeneral Mgt. &amp; Strategy Spkr Series<br \/>\nMBA294.9\tCareers in Consulting<br \/>\nMBA294.11\tEducation Leadership Speaker Series<br \/>\nMBA294.12\tPrivate Equity Speaker Series<br \/>\nMBA294.13\tCareers 101<br \/>\nMBA294.14\tTopics in Technology<br \/>\nMBA294.15\tHealth Care Speaker Series<br \/>\nMBA294.16\tAlternative Energy Speaker Series<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n<p>Haas MBA body is pretty much diversified, so many classmates are taking other MBA 294.x Speaker Series, and it seems that almost everyone is enjoying it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite course at Haas School of Business right now is an elective course called &#8220;MBA294.1 Life as an Entrepreneur&#8221;. \u00c2\u00a0It is jointed hosted by Haas School of Business and the Center for\u00c2\u00a0Entrepreneurship\u00c2\u00a0and Technology (CET) at UC Berkeley&#8217;s College of\u00c2\u00a0Engineering. \u00c2\u00a0Basically each week one guest speaker was invited to give one hour speech, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,24],"tags":[34,35,36],"class_list":["post-121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics","category-berkeley-mba","tag-berkeley","tag-haas","tag-mba"],"views":30406,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freemanding.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freemanding.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freemanding.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freemanding.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freemanding.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.freemanding.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122,"href":"https:\/\/www.freemanding.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions\/122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freemanding.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freemanding.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freemanding.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}