BERKELEY
- International investors, business leaders and policy makers
will be coached on the secrets of Silicon Valley-style venture
capital finance in an innovative executive program to be held
later this month at the University of California, Berkeley's
Haas School of Business.
The Venture
Capital Institute, which will run May 21-June 2, will teach
the Silicon Valley model of business creation and new venture
finance. The program also will be offered Sept. 10-22.
The institute
takes advantage of the Haas School's leadership position in
teaching and researching high-tech entrepreneurship, its location
in the entrepreneurial San Francisco Bay Area, and the business
school's partnerships with leading businesses in Silicon Valley,
known worldwide as a laboratory for business creation and
technological innovation.
Haas School
faculty members, as well as leading Silicon Valley venture
capitalists and business leaders, will teach at the institute.
The program
will focus on how successful venture capitalists in the Bay
Area work with entrepreneurs to start new companies and help
them grow, and how this Silicon Valley model can be adapted
to international locales. In addition to their classroom experience
at UC Berkeley, participants will travel to the Silicon Valley
- within an hour's drive of the campus - to visit high-tech
portfolio companies and their venture capital investors.
"The Venture
Capital Institute is the place to come to learn how Silicon
Valley firms foster entrepreneurial initiative," said Mario
Rosati, partner at Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati, a Silicon
Valley venture law firm. At the UC Berkeley institute, Rosati
will lecture on new venture finance.
The institute
is one of a variety of cutting-edge, non-degree business programs
offered by the Haas School's Center for Executive Development.
In addition to developing open enrollment programs at UC Berkeley
and custom programs worldwide, the center focuses on e-learning
strategies for today's companies.
Links:
Haas
Executive Development program
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