COURSE NUMBER: MBA295T.2 (Course Number changed from MBA292T.2)
This course is cross-listed with the EWMBA Program.
This
course and MBA292T.11- Business & Natural Resources are mutually exclusive
due to conflicting meeting dates.
COURSE TITLE: Startup Disco
UNITS OF CREDIT: 1
INSTRUCTORS: Jorge Calderon
E-MAIL ADDRESSES: jorgecalderon@haas.berkeley.edu
MEETING DAY/TIME:
·
I-Lab: Friday, 9/9 4pm-9pm
·
Wells Fargo Room: Saturday, 9/10 9am-4pm
·
I-Lab: Sunday, 9/11 12pm-4pm
Please note the unorthodox format of this course
(9/9-9/11). You must attend all three sessions of this course in their entirety
in order to earn a passing grade.
PREREQUISITE(S): none
CLASS FORMAT: Case method, guest speakers,
lectures, readings and flipped classroom content to deliver instruction
REQUIRED READINGS: TBD
ABSTRACT OF COURSE'S CONTENT AND
OBJECTIVES:
Modified from the successful Impact Startup
Disco and new for Fall of 2016 is the Startup
Disco.
This is a high-octane, fun, single weekend
course for graduate students who are interested in meeting other innovators and
getting hands-on experience developing a new start-up concept.
The course pedagogy is heavily influenced by the
Lean Startup Methodology. The pace and mindset is inspired by
constructs introduced in hackathons and startup weekend formats. A twelve-step journey helps guide students
through a sprint formation and ideation process. Startup Disco uses
case method, guest speakers, lectures, readings and flipped classroom content
to deliver instruction.
Students will begin the course by developing,
advocating for and then prioritizing a long list of ideas, which then students
will choose in order to form teams. At the end of the course, each
team will present their validated concepts and their next steps plan to a panel
of experts.
Students are expected to commit to the
instruction and development activities that span from Friday at 4 pm to Sunday
at 5 pm.
Startup Disco is an interdisciplinary course and
encourages students from Haas FTMBA and EWMBA programs, and students from any
of the other graduate programs throughout UC Berkeley to participate.
This course is a great prequel for those
planning on taking a longer entrepreneurship design course like Lean Launchpad
or participating in a Berkeley accelerator program like LAUNCH.
All concept themes are welcome, but ideas need
to address a large opportunity.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH:
Jorge is a career entrepreneur, management
consultant, venture investment professional & educator. Mr. Calderon is the
founder and CEO of Carett, an education tech startup based in the San Francisco
Bay Area that is reimagining how college students prepare for their careers. He
is currently on leave from Impact Strategy Advisors (ISA), a boutique social
venture & investment design consulting firm where he was the founding
Managing Director. Jorge’s practice focused on helping capital sources &
operating companies transform intentional social purpose into economic &
positive impact value. Mr. Calderon has broad expertise in a variety of social
themes, including education, economic development, diversity/inclusion, job
creation, poverty alleviation, access to food, technology for change and the
field of impact investing. Jorge is the author of the Social Blueprint, a
toolkit for implementing the Purpose-Center Design methodology he developed. He
is also a lecturer at the Berkeley-Haas School of Business, where he built the
Social Lean LaunchPad and Impact Startup Disco
curricula, is a Fellow within Berkeley’s Institute for Business and Social
Impact, is part of the faculty team for the LAUNCH accelerator, was previously
the Faculty Director for the GSVC, and is actively working on developing a
campus based inclusive innovation program. Mr. Calderon previously founded Springworks, a program lab that was committed to developing
paths for women and minorities in innovation related careers. Earlier he was
the founding Director for the West Coast office of a tech focused seed stage
venture capital firm and has had roles in top tier management consulting,
banking and technology companies. Mr. Calderon is a University of Michigan
graduate and received his MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at
Northwestern University.