July 10, 2013’s passage of Title II of the JOBS Act by the Securities and Exchange Commission starts the process of enacting sweeping regulatory change for the private offering of securities.  Though the rules are likely to be considered a “major change” by the office of Information and Regulatory Affairs requiring a 60 day congressional… Read More »

The University of California, Berkeley announced the appointment of Dr. Richard Swart as Director of Research overseeing the policies, best practices and innovation in entrepreneurial finance, including crowdfunding. The Program for Innovation in Entrepreneurial and Social Finance, directed under the College of Engineering’s Fung Institute, seeks to examine the evolution of crowdfunding and other social-finance… Read More »

In April 2012 Sherwood “Woodie” Neis along with his good friend, Jason Best launched Crowdfund Capital Advisors (CCA), a consulting company that advises U.S. and international entrepreneurs, investors, business groups and government agencies. At that time, Best was an entrepreneur-in-residence at the university’s Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology at the Fung Institute for Engineering Leadership,… Read More »

(Cal students working on a startup at the school’s SkyDeck accelerator.) UC Berkeley’s Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology (CET) recently brought together a bunch of startups, including VIRES, for a pitch contest before a panel of judges comprised of venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, and university faculty. Also in the mix were Chinese teams from the Tsinghua-Berkeley… Read More »

(Picture from: http://www.gizmag.com/3d-bio-printer/13609/) Ikhlaq Sidhu, the Fung Institute’s Chief Scientist, gives his opinions on 3D bio-printing, stating that 3D bio-printing will have a huge impact on society and people’s lives, along with tremendous business opportunities. 3D printing is the process of creating a 3D object from a digital model by using additive manufacturing, in which… Read More »

The Fung Institute’s Chief Scientist, Ikhlaq Sidhu gives his insight on Internet, Economy & Privacy. The Internet is a critical component of the global and domestic economy. The economic impact of the Internet on people’s lives is difficult to estimate in terms of dollars, but online advertising is the dynamo powering the Internet’s rapid growth. Internet advertising… Read More »

Taken from Berkeley Engineer Spring 2013 Volume 3 Coleman Fung (B.S.’87 IEOR) was honored on campus in December 2012 for his endowment of two new chairs in the College of Engineering. In 2011, Fung received the UC Berkeley Foundation’s Chancellor’s Award in recognition of his multifaceted and transformative impact on the Berkeley campus. He is… Read More »

(Three of the five co-founders pictured above) A team of CET students won the University Mobile Challenge last Thursday for creating an app that will allow water providers to remotely control water supplies in the developing world. The University Mobile Challenge was established by Ken Singer and Paul Nerger of the UC Berkeley Center of… Read More »