We were up at the crack of dawn on Thursday for a breakfast talk hosted by Rod Fergusson, managing director of Panorama Capital (a West coast venture capital fund). Rod spoke very frankly about the life of a VC and what he sees going on in the industry. His talk emphasized the importance of […]
We started the day with a visit to Golden Gate Capital in San Francisco, which is one of the premier private equity funds in the country. Josh Olshansky, one of only 8 Managing Directors at the fund, spoke to the group about the private equity markets generally and Golden Gate’s place within the market […]
Our first stop on the second day of our Entrepreneurship Team Project trip was a visit to the Google campus to meet with Brian Downing, who recently moved from the legal department to become a director of engineering at Google. Brian talked about the challenges a company faces after growing to the size of Google. […]
What would be an exciting thing to do over the Spring Break? Well, a group of us in the MSL program headed out to the Bay Area in California for a class project called the Entrepreneurship Team Project, or EnTP. The EnTP is an elective course in the MSL program, where MSL students participate in […]