5:51am and I should be studying for my EE midterm tomorrow today, but I’ve just been distracted by this inspirational post.
Yossi Vardi, the orginal investor in ICQ and a believer in young entrepreners, uses Roosevelt’s 1910 speech to give an analogy to today’s entrepreneurs in the area:
It is not the critic who counts; not [...]
These past 5 days have been a hectic first week of school. However, there was one class that stuck out: IEOR 190C – Entrepreneurship & Innovation: Web 2.0.
The goal of this 1 unit class is to have students (mainly engineers) come up with a business plan, and, if they want, implement it. The lecturer, Bernt [...]
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You ask any computer science student to describe his classes and he will start ranting about how time-consuming a certain class was. In my case, the class was CS150: Components and Design Techniques for Digital Systems, the beast of all beasts at Berkeley. The project was to build a wireless video conferencing system, which included [...]
TechCrunch 9 at August Capital was a blast. I had a lot of fun talking to the people there. Here are some of the pictures I took.
Sarah Meyers was also videoblogging at the event.
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Industry Girl
CenterNetworks
Epicenter
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I just got back from Stirr Founder Hack event tonight.
I arrived when the presentations kicked off. We had a slight “difficulty” at the entrance, but Sanford Barr, Stirrer Co-Founder, was nice enough to come out and sort things out. Overall, I thought this event was a success. Practically everyone was either a startup Founder [...]
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