The Boot Camp provides insights and skills to founders and managers of new companies to help them successfully grow and develop. The program provides an advanced, fast-paced learning environment based on the silicon-valley start-up and venture capital models.

Taught by Top Faculty

The faculty all teach at UC Berkeley’s Lester Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Haas School of Business. They bring years of experience in startups, venture capital and successful teaching. They have taught around the globe in support of technology entrepreneurship. The faculty are augmented by speakers and guests from the local community of Venture Capitalists and entrepreneurs.

An Intense, Focused Three-day Session

This program provides education and training in what it takes to make a successful new venture in today’s highly competitive environment. We will cover topics such as business model formulation, strategy, financing the venture and pitching. Most of the program is hands-on interactive sessions where the company will work to further its goals and satisfy its needs.

In three days you will have opportunity to learn from some of the best academics and teachers and meet with angel investors and venture capitalists.

Tentative Schedule

	7/25	7/26	7/27	7/28
	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
Topic	Welcome, Orientation to Silicon Valley and Venture Capital; VC Panels	Entrepreneur's Boot camp I: Skills Development, Financial Modeling, Strategy and Pitching	Entrepreneur's Boot camp II: Pitch Labs with Investors, Corporate Development Agendas	Link to Napa Valley or other local tours
Schedule	9am start 12pm lunch 5pm close 6pm dinner	9am start 12pm lunch 5pm close	9am start 12pm lunch 5pm close
Included	Breakfast, Coffee Breaks, Lunch and Welcome Dinner	Breakfast, Coffee Breaks, Lunch	Breakfast, Coffee Breaks, Lunch

Transport to/from the hotel to the Haas School of Business is included.

Who Should Attend?

· Founders and senior management from companies with, or seeking, venture capital backing.

· Innovators and others considering starting a company that they believe will has very high potential value.

· Business development professionals looking to extend their company’s reach.

Why take this program?

Entrepreneurship and global expansion of young companies is an exciting process, but can be fraught with pitfalls. This program will help you get your company’s strategy and story tuned and your skills honed to the Silicon Valley model.

BSI+UC Berkeley Boot camp for Emerging Ventures

PROGRAM FACULTY

Jerome S. Engel

Jerry Engel is Executive Director of the Lester Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley, a program he founded in 1991. He brings over 20 years experience and success in high technology entrepreneurship and venture capital. In addition to his academic position, Jerry is a General Partner for Monitor Ventures, a venture capital partnership located in Palo Alto, California.

Jerry was founder of the Entrepreneurial Services Group at Arthur Young (now Ernst & Young). He was also a founding General Partner in Kline Hawkes & Co., a Southern California based venture fund. Jerry was also a founder of AllBusiness, a small business portal, which was successfully sold to NBCi.

Jerry has served on the Board of Directors of a number of emerging companies including Maxis Corporation (acquired by EA), MicroNet Technology (acquired by Ampex) and Transoft (acquired by HP). He is a CPA and received his Bachelors degree from Penn State and his Masters from the Wharton school. Jerry teaches “Entrepreneurship,” “Venture Capital and Private Equity,” and courses in the Berkeley Center for Executive Development.

David Charron

David Charron is Associate Director of the Lester Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. He is also a lecturer in entrepreneurship at the MBA level at the Haas School. He has worked in the field of technology commercialization and entrepreneurship for 18 years with positions at Xerox PARC, MIT and Stanford and Technology Ventures Corporation. In 1995, he co-founded Scientific Learning Corporation, a publicly-traded neuroscience company based on innovations from UCSF and Rutgers. Dave is also the Executive Director of the Berkeley Entrepreneurship Laboratory, a non-profit incubator with the goal of increasing entrepreneurial activity at UC Berkeley and community. He teaches Case Studies in Entrepreneurship and Entrepreneurship in Action. He holds a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University and an MBA from the Haas School.