About
AMBeat is the official blog of CEOB, the College Entrepreneurship Organization at Berkeley. It is meant to be the ultimate resource for young entrepreneurs, especially those interested in technology and Silicon Valley. The blog features interviews with some of the world’s most successful entrepreneurs, coverage of entrepreneurship related events from around the world, profiles of young successful entrepreneurs, and general advice and news articles.
If you are interested in contributing to AMBeat or having your start-up profiled, please e-mail founder Aditya Mahesh via the contact page.
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Overview
Aditya Mahesh is currently an undergraduate at UC Berkeley and is the co-founder and CEO of SnipBids, a web start-up focused on restaurant discounts on college campuses across the nation. He is also the founder of two other web start-ups, ZapPrep College Admissions Consulting, an online tutoring firm which helps high school students with the college application process, and BeatThatVerse, a web start-up which focuses on allowing upcoming hip-hop artists to create remixes to hit songs and showcase their talent. He has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, New York Times, NBC, and on countless tech and business related blogs.
As an undergraduate at UC Berkeley, Aditya Mahesh teaches an Introduction to Entrepreneurship course through which he has helped hundreds of UC Berkeley students create business plans and launch actual start-ups and is the founder and president of CEOB (College Entrepreneurship Organization at Berkeley), the largest undergraduate entrepreneurship club on campus. His blog can be found at AM Beat.
If you would like to work with Aditya on marketing consulting for your company, you can hire him via his consulting firm, Azooda Advertising.
Background
Aditya Mahesh started his first business, a public relations firm targeted towards small business and web start-ups, in 2004 as a high school freshman. Throughout high school, he worked on a number of other web start-ups attracting millions of unique visitors to his web properties. In the Sping of 2008, Aditya Mahesh was recognized as one of the Top 100 High School Entrepreneurs in the World by Andrew McKelvey, the founder of Monster.com.
He founded ZapPrep College Admissions Tutoring during his freshman year at UC Berkeley and after teaming up with fellow McKeley scholar Saleh Altayyar, the owner of a used car dealership in Modesto, CA, launched SnipBids and Beat That Verse.
Aditya currently teaches at an entrepreneurship course at UC Berkeley, Econ 198 Entrepreneurship Crash Course: Starting a Business, and is the co-founder of the school’s largest undergraduate entrepreneur association.
