Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 26, 2011

I don’t have an MBA. For business professionals who aspire to an executive position in a large company, most people agree that an MBA is always positive. At any rate, I had trouble thinking of famous entrepreneurs with an MBA. She is a graduate of Princeton University and has an MBA from the Harvard Business School.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 8, 2023

I have a good business friend, an experienced manager and teacher with a Harvard MBA, whose creativity and intelligence are admired by many. But he dilutes his effectiveness with wordy PowerPoint presentations.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 4, 2013

I don’t have an MBA. For business professionals who aspire to an executive position in a large company, most people agree that an MBA is always positive. In fact, BusinessWeek reports that roughly 40 percent of the S&P 500 chief executives have MBAs in any given year. He has an MBA from the Wharton School of Business.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 7, 2009

Tuesday, January 13, 2009 -- UCLA MBA Intern Fair for VC / Portfolio / Small Companies. Over 100 MBA students have expressed interest in obtaining an internship in a variety of industries and functional roles this winter. The goal of the fair on January 13th is to match companies with both paid and academic interns.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

DECEMBER 9, 2008

Monday, December 15, 2008 -- UCLA MBA Intern Fair for VC / Portfolio / Small UCLA MBA Intern Fair for VC / Portfolio / Small Companies. Over 100 MBA students have expressed interest in obtaining an internship in a variety of industries and functional roles this winter. Companies Registration Deadline.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

A new endowed fellowship fund, which will be awarded to a graduate MBA student at the Paul Merage School of Business at University of California, Irvine, has been established to honor the Tech Coast Angels' Luis Villalobos.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 12, 2010

I don’t have an MBA. More importantly, as a parent or mentor, what should you advise young potential entrepreneurs about getting an MBA? On the other hand, I had trouble thinking of famous entrepreneurs with an MBA. These probably feel that their MBA was worthwhile. Tags: entrepreneur startup MBA business.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Tech entrepreneurs' consternation with MBAs does not rise to the level of loathing. Rather, entrepreneurs' frustrations are often due to an incongruence between an MBA's expectations versus the value they can deliver to a startup. Thus, relatively few MBA candidates enter B-school with meaningful entrepreneurial experiences.

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socalTECH

MAY 26, 2021

Ming Wang, PhD/MBA is CEO of Phanes Therapeutics. According to the company, the new funding will be used to advance several preclinical programs to clinic, expand the research and clinical teams, and support the advancement of research projects.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

MBA to the position. San Diego-based biopharmaceuticals firm AFYX Therapeutics has named a new Chief Medical Officer, the company said this morning. The company appointed Dennis D. Kim was most recently chief medical officer of Emerald Health Sciences (EHS) and later of its subsidiary Emerald Bioscience (EMBI), and also served at Zafgen, Inc.,

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Berkonomics

MARCH 23, 2017

I have a good business friend, an experienced manager and teacher with a Harvard MBA, whose deep thinking creativity and intelligence are admired by many. But he dilutes his effectiveness with wordy PowerPoint presentations.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

Auditude, although now based in Palo Alto, had originally been developed for a UCLA MBA business plan competition, by Nicholas Seet. Seet founded Auditude for the KNAPP competition at UCLA, while he was at the UCLA Anderson School of Management at its fully employed MBA program. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2021

Most schools also nurture relationships with local and former executives whom they use for guest lectures to MBA courses, judge student business plans, and assign as mentors for university spinoffs. Similar to finding experienced team members, you can use university contacts who do mentoring in the real world.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I listed on many databases – some MBA, some not. MBA fine, but not required. He’s a star who has a very intuitive feel for technology and … no MBA. Understanding the 5 C’s to decide whether to get an MBA – after the jump. He says the MBA transformed his thinking. THE FIVE C’S.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 8, 2022

You’re in no rush to get an MBA. If you are already an entrepreneur, more education, including an MBA, will only slow you down. If you plan to become an entrepreneur, and already have business experience or an undergraduate business degree, skip the two-year delay and cost of the MBA. Consider it a waste of time.

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socalTECH

MARCH 15, 2018

Arnold was most recently CEO of Data Intensity, LLC, and is also a lecturer at MIT Sloan School of Management, where she teaches entrepreneurial sales and advanced ventures in its MBA program.

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socalTECH

MAY 6, 2016

The Alfred Mann Foundation for Scientific Research (AMF), which is focused on innovation in medical technology, said Thursday that it has named Eric Grigsby, MD, MBA, as Chief Medical Officer of the nonprofit. Grigsby was formerly President and CEO of Neurvations, and was founder and Medical Director of the Napa Pain Institute.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 8, 2014

Most firms hire associates straight out of MBA programs and usually it is a “2-3 years and out” type of job. At Upfront VC we have a very strict policy to hire pre MBAs into the role. Smart founders use this extra resource to their advantage. Just ask Rob Bailey. I think there are two reasons for this: 1.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Peck is a real estate and biotech investor, and had been CEO and one ofthe owners of Meridian Leasing, although he got his start working for RCA and Intel as an MBA student in the 1960's. The company said Peck has been involved with the company as an early-stage seed round investor. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 28, 2014

According to the two, they will work with Chapman Unviersity''s MBA students, to give them access to HID''s technology, challenging students to identify key market opportunities for HID Global. The two said the effort calls for students to present business and launch plans on helping HID expand its markets.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

APRIL 28, 2017

Dan also worked at Goldman Sachs and the US Senate, and went to HBS for an MBA. Dan was an early user of military and commercial drone systems, serving as a Marine Infantry Officer in Iraq and Afghanistan and building / piloting commercial drones starting in 2012. This event restricted to CEOs and CFOs only, a confirmed RSVP required.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2014

Sometimes the discussion veers over into whether or not he or she should get an MBA before trying a startup. ” The point isn’t whether one should get an MBA or not – it’s simpler. I often say. At the end of the period you’ll have zero debt, 2 year’s experience and have at least earned money.”

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socalTECH

MAY 10, 2017

In addition to the video game development efforts, Zynga also said it is working with USC's Marshall School of Business on a Product Management Bootcamp program for MBA candidates, with sessions on social game development covering Product Management fundamentals. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

APRIL 5, 2011

Rajaraman is an alum of UCLA Anderson's MBA program. The contest will be judged by Ed Burns (Saving Private Ryan); Steven De Souza (Die Hard) Break Media development team and executives. Scripped.com is the former, Los Angeles-based scriptwriting site headed by Sunil Rajaraman. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 9, 2014

Traditionally, these between a rock and hard place problems have been solved with a limited pool of expensive options – usually associated with long contracts and high billables for “MBA quality” work. Professional brands like Bain, Barclays, Deloitte, Booz Allen Hamilton; MBA/academia like Columbia, Harvard, Wharton, etc.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 26, 2016

UCLA said that the space will be open to Anderson MBA candidates, undergraduates and graduate students from other schools on campus, and to faculty researchers. The school plans to run "demo days" and other events in the same space.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 8, 2012

In what it calls a "video MBA", Santa Monica-based DocStoc has launched a major new feature of the site, aimed at helping small businesses and professionals learn about everything from building a brand, pitching their business plan, running an Adwords campaign, and more.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Multiple each engineer x $1 million and subtract each MBA by $1 million and that’s your valuation As an MBA I can say that. You know the old adage (I first heard from Guy Kawasaki) – how much is an Internet company worth? But what comes after the original team?

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

Santa Barbara-based Restaurant Revolution Technologies , a firm developing restaurant order management technology, has raised a round of venture funding, according to BR Venture Fund , a MBA student run venture capital fund based out of Cornell University. Financial details of the investment were not disclosed.

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socalTECH

APRIL 20, 2010

Irving, who had been a professor at Pepperdine since January of 2009, was teaching classes at Pepperdine's full time MBA program in Malibu. Irving had previously served as Corporate Vice President at Microsoft, heading up its Windows Live Platform group, as well as serving at Xerox, Oki Electric Industry Co.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2019

You’re in no rush to get an MBA. If you are already an entrepreneur, more education, including an MBA, will only slow you down. If you plan to become an entrepreneur, and already have business experience or an undergraduate business degree, skip the two-year delay and cost of the MBA. Consider it a waste of time.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 14, 2010

TekTrak is headed by Arik Waldman, who according to his LinkedIn profile just recently came out of the MBA program at UCLA Anderson. TekTrak said it will use the funding to launch additional features, and expand its support to Android platforms. READ MORE>>.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

APRIL 25, 2012

Kaplan, MBA, SPHR, Mark Kamin and Associates. Tuesday, May 1, 2012 -- How to Build a Winning Team. Our Keynote Speaker is Alexandra L. Powerful teams are essential to productivity and accomplishment in business. Yet very often businesses and organizations have formal groups and departments, but powerful teams are missing.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Sullivan became Rady’s founding dean in 2003, ahead of the fall 2004 enrollment of the school’s charter MBA class. Under Bob Sullivan, the Rady School of Management at UC San Diego matured into its teenage years. Rady School is marking its sweet sixteen under a new leader, Lisa Ordóñez.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 31, 2012

Many MBA programs still cater too much to the needs of large, corporate management jobs or prepare students to enter big consulting companies or investments banks. I also applaud Tom Eisenmann & Jeff Bussgang for bringing this kind of discussion into an MBA program. ” I encapsulate that in an analogy I heard years ago.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 24, 2011

The firm was actually spawned out of a UCLA MBA business plan competition. Auditude is venture backed by Granite Ventures, Silicon Valley Bank, Greylock Partners, and Redpoint Ventures; the appointment of Helfand came in conjunction with a new, $11M Series B funding round for Auditude.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

Learn how to utilize new tools and techniques to X-ray your organization at this interactive, participant-driven program with consultant and trainer Daniel Feiman, MBA, CMC. An X-ray of an organization is a look inside to see what is working, what is not and/or what is missing that should be there. See [link] (more)

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