Research to Startup

Launchpad (Spring 2023)

Instructors: Ali Ghodsi, Andrew Krioukov, Andy Konwinski, Ion Stoica, Pieter Abbeel, Prabal Dutta, Sergey Karayev, Trevor Darrell

This advanced class is a follow-on to our overview course and is for teams of PhD students who are…

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.

Into to Startups for Researchers (Spring 2022)

Instructors: Ali Ghodsi, Andrew Krioukov, Andy Konwinski, Ion Stoica, Pieter Abbeel, Sergey Karayev

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.