Upcoming Events
BPEP Idea to Funding workshop series
Topic: "Psychology of deep tech startup founders: How to muster courage to launch a startup?"
Startups are hard. Deep tech startups are even harder. It takes a substantial amount of courage, grit, persistence, hard work, time to market, funding, and sacrifices. The failure rate is very high. In spite of that, a number of scientists and engineers have dared to take the path of entrepreneurship to reinvent the world by bringing their research to market. Many of the researchers wonder what it takes to embark on this journey. Come to this workshop to learn from the experiences and observations from a serial entrepreneur; a deep tech investor and ecosystem builder; and an early stage deep tech founder.
2. Topic: Demystifying legal aspects for startups"- Role that law firms play in a startup journey.
Date: October 28th, 2021, 6.00-7.30 pm.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bpep-idea-to-funding-fall-21-workshop-series-tickets-181386942227
Attend this workshop to understand why a startup needs a law firm from incorporation to exit and everything in between. Joe Wyatt, a Partner at WilmerHale will walk through the stages of a startup and the role a startup law firm plays during the journey.
It is very important for aspiring entrepreneurs to understand the importance and costs associated with one of the most important partners in a startup journey- a trusted law firm. It is often a black box and the bills can be scary for grad students and postdocs (launching startups) who never dealt with law firms. Very often, law firms get a bad rep for the high costs, but most really don't understand why (and also how many startups fail and the bills they have to write off). Understanding legal costs will also help founders with engaging with the right firm, seeking input on various topics from incorporation to planning exits.
Berkeley Postdoctoral Entrepreneur Program (BPEP) aims to foster entrepreneurship in the UC Berkeley postdoctoral and graduate community. We provide tools, mentoring, and a platform for science-business communication to enable research innovations to move into the marketplace. We believe entrepreneurship is an integral part of UC Berkeley's ethos, and aim to build a community of entrepreneurship among UC Berkeley's postdocs.
Berkeley Postdocoral Entrepreneurship Program (BPEP) is happy to announce the launch of BPEP job portal for postdocs at UC Berkeley in collaboration with the Visiting Scholars and Postdoc Affairs office at UC Berkeley. Click here to access the job portal and find job openings.