Events

Startup Mixer

These events are typically held two a semester in the basement of Blake’s on Telegraph. There is always an excellent mix of students (both technical and not), experienced entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, lawyers, and randoms.

Our next event will take place on Thursday, March 12th at 7PM in the basement of Blakes on Telegraph. The speaker will be Mark Pincus, founder and CEO of Zynga, a KPCB-backed game development studio responsible for Facebook games Texas Hold’em, Mafia Wars, and Yoville.

Check out our past speakers:

Fall 2008: Matt Mullenweg, Founder and Chief Evangelist, WordPress.com
Spring 2008: Paul Martino, Founder and CEO, Aggregate Knowledge
Fall 2007: Garrett Gruener, Founder Askjeeves.com
Fall 2007: James Hong, Founder of Hot or Not
Spring 2007: Dustin Moskovitz, Co-founder of Facebook

Startup Wednesday

These semi-weekly dinners for Berkeley entrepreneurs have been growing in popularity since we began them last Fall. We now regularly host 20-30 students at a local startup. Here are the dates for our upcoming meetings:

3/4- Location TBD
3/18- Location TBD
4/1- Location TBD
4/15- Location TBD
4/29- Location TBD

If you want to be on the mailing list to hear about meeting changes and locations e-mail me.

Here is a description of our past event.

Hackathon

Probably the coolest of our events, this is held every Spring in the Wozniak Lounge. Co-hosted by the Computer Science Undergraduate Association, it is a 24-hour hacking celebration where teams of 4 techies hack without breaks or food (the last part was a joke…but they really don’t move).

The 2009 event will be held Friday, February 13th at 6:00PM to Saturday, February 14th at 2:00PM in the Wozniak Lounge at Soda Hall. There will be more of an entrepreneurship focus this year than last, with judges from venture capital firm Y-Combinator and Facebook. Also expect numerous invited guests from Berkeley startups and entrepreneurs.

Prizes include 4 Acer Aspire Ones, 4 22″ LCD Monitors, and 4 160GB Hard drives. There will also be special surprise prizes from Amazon.

Sponsors include:

Palantir Technologies
Lockheed Martin
Kinfo
Alsop Louie Partners

Read about last year’s event and the one this February.

Other

Although we are the coolest, there are a number of other entrepreneurship focused organizations that host a few regular events:

Entrepreneur Best Practice Series (Lester Center)
Entrepreneurship Forum (Lester Center)
Entrepreureship Round Table (Haas EA)