Instructors: Trevor Darrell, Prabal Dutta, Ali Ghodsi, Kurt Keutzer, Andy Konwinski, Andrew Krioukov, Ion Stoica
This is an EECS seminar for PhD students who are interested in or currently creating startups out of research. This class is taught by Berkeley EECS Professors and PhD alumni who have started deeply technical companies built around industry-defining technologies.
Instructors: Pieter Abbeel, Trevor Darrell, Prabal Dutta, Ali Ghodsi, Sergey Karayev, Andy Konwinski, Andrew Krioukov, Ion Stoica
This advanced class is a follow-on to our overview course and is for teams of PhD students who areā€¦
  • working on a startup that already exists,
  • or will create a startup during the class,
  • or are planning on creating a startup in the next year.
We will use a small-group workshop format and focus on customer discovery, product validation, market fit, and the pitch.
Instructors: Pieter Abbeel, Ali Ghodsi, Sergey Karayev, Andy Konwinski, Andrew Krioukov, Ion Stoica
This overview course is for Berkeley CS researchers who are curious about what it takes to create a world-changing company. Berkeley EECS researchers have led the creation of industry-defining technologies (e.g., BSD, TCP, RISK, RAID, Spark), as well as iconic technology startups (e.g., VMWare, Apple, Nicera, Inktomi, Sun Microsystems, and Tesla). We will review key lessons from these successes, with a focus on the first steps you can take to go from research to startup.