The UC Berkeley Entreprenuership Blog
I was fortunate enough to be interviewed on NBC Bay Area a couple of days and thought I’d share the video interview here. The video is about an entrepreneurship scholarship I received from Andrew Mckelvey, the founder of Monster.com, which was recently retracted due to economic hardship and the passing of Mr. McKelvey. All the scholars started an effort to regain some of the lost scholarship money and the video reports on our efforts.
I was recently profiled on Web Worker Daily, one of the best blogs out there for anyone who works in the web industry, and the story was syndicated on the New York Times website. The profile was part of Web Worker Daily’s “Reader Profile” series where they ask certain readers who they are, what they do, what tech they use, and what their favorite web working tip is.
I was recently speaking with my friend Andrew Warner of Mixergy, a site with dozens of great interviews with a number of entrepreneurs, many of which have been featured both here in the blog and in the entrepreneurship course I teach at UC Berkeley. We are talking about how to build a community and he pointed me to an interview he did with two of the top users of Hacker News, a tech related social bookmarking site funded by Y Combinator, about how a successful community was built.
I would just like to take a moment to wish all of our readers a very Happy New Years. I hope all of you reached your goals for 2009 and have new aspirations and goals for the coming year. I want to thank you all for reading AM Beat and let all our readers know that we have dozens of great posts and features planned ahead for 2010.
The perfect gift for any budding entrepreneur: a business. The video below shows how you can create a “business in a box” and package it as a gift. The gift gives an up and coming entrepreneur all the tools they need to start a business. Included are a domain name and website, computer, business software, logo, and various subscriptions to marketing tools.
At the Start-Up School held here at UC Berkeley about two weeks ago Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg came in to talk to a group of over 700 entrepreneurs, tech enthusiasts, and students about his experiences and Facebook in general. It is really quite the inspiring story for any aspiring entrepreneur.
Chris Anderson from “The Long Tail” and “Free” came today to the class I am teaching at UC Berkeley to talk about entrepreneurship. He spent some time going over the concepts presented in the Long Tail, but geared the lecture to youth entrepreneurship and helping my students start a business.
If you were on the toilet with only three pieces of toilet paper left what would you do? Use those pieces as effectively as you can or sit on the toilet forever. This was the reasoning behind Toilet Paper Entrepreneur, a new book by Mike Michalowicz which shows entrepreneurs how they can best utilize their limited resources to help their businesses grow.
Small Business Trends, one of the best blogs out there on the pulse of small businesses, has asked its readers to compose a list of 51 ways all entrepreneurs can save money for their small business utilizing technology. Seeing how a large percentage of AM Beat readers run technologically-intensive start-ups, I thought it would be a good idea to share this content here.
Google co-founder Larry Page provides several tips for entrepreneurs. This is a very interesting short video I found a few days ago. It is part of Stanford University’sEntrepreneurial Thought Leader Speaker Series.
AM Beat is a blog written by Aditya Mahesh, a young entrepreneur and freshman at UC Berkeley who runs ZapPrep, a college admissions consulting business. This blog covers marketing, technology, and finance.
