By Ying Chen, Samantha Loren, & Daniel Torres Day 5 – Friday, March 29: Ouster We all feel a rush of excitement when we think about tech startups. Imagine making technical breakthroughs on daily basis, growing from a few buddies working in a garage to a proper company with multiple divisions, capital flooding in from […]
By Hao Gao & Shalin Shah Day 5 – Friday, March 29: Nextlaw We were fortunate to have a meeting with John Fernandez and Maya Markovich of Nextlaw. The meeting was held at the Dentons office in downtown San Francisco. The MSL EnTP team arrived at the office on the last morning of our trip. […]
By Ying Chen, Samantha Loren, & Daniel Torres Day 4 – Thursday, March 28: Atrium The MSL is similar to a startup in and of itself. Thus, it was a great privilege for the EnTP team to visit Atrium, the revolutionary legal firm that is shaking up Silicon Valley. Co-founded by the incredible Justin Kan, […]
By Hao Gao & Shalin Shah Day 4 – Thursday, March 28: Cisco The MSL EnTP team visited Cisco Meraki, a subsidiary of Cisco that is focused on creating simple and effective cloud managed IT. In a big conference room, Mark Chandler and Steve Harmon greeted the MSL EnTP team with two cute pups in […]
By Xiaolei Cheng, Shao-Hsuan Kao, & Kat Klein Day 3 – Wednesday, March 27: Tarun Wadhwa, Day One Insights Day three of the EnTP trip concluded with Tarun Wadhwa’s presentation at Northwestern San Francisco. It was a highlight of our trip. As CEO of Day One Insights, an academic, and an acclaimed writer, Tarun illustrated […]
By Hao Gao & Shalin Shah Day 1 – Monday, March 25: Gusto On the team’s first evening in the Bay Area, we began the trip by visiting with the legal team at Gusto, an innovative payroll and HR management solutions provider that serves small businesses. We ventured to the historic maritime industrial district in […]
By Evan Goldberg Following a whirlwind trip to the Bay Area to learn about legal technology, startups, large companies, and how innovation is changing operations of all of these entities, our MSL Entrepreneurship Team Project students have written blog posts about each company we visited and entrepreneur with whom we met. This week, we’ll publish […]
By Dan Linna (@DanLinna) & Evan Goldberg (@evanmgoldberg) Each of the last several years, teams of Northwestern JD, LLM, and Master of Science in Law (MSL) students have spent Spring Break in Silicon Valley studying innovation, technology, and law. This year, ten MSL students and one JD student have made the trip to San Francisco […]
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 […]