"This is an intense and inspiring week and a well-structured program that covers the long journey from idea generation to market success, embedding the many facets of innovation and entrepreneurship into a bigger picture. It provides insights into both worlds: the small startup and the large organization. A world-class faculty, supported from excellent guest speakers from the Silicon Valley scene and beyond. This course will definitely support and improve my future work."
"This program is an opportunity to share and learn from experience of senior managers from all around the globe. The program combines experienced tutors and practitioners from the Silicon Valley providing a unique mix that boosts your creativity and thinking about the implementation of the knowledge you have just learned."
"I had a wonderful, enriching experience at the Boot Camp for Experienced Managers. The training was a nice blend of theory and practical examples. It was very rewarding to connect with like-minded folks and discuss my organizational issues, and to listen to their ideas. I have already highly recommended this training to my colleagues."
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"I had customer visits scheduled the week after attending UC Berkeley's Product Management Program. The session on Customer Design got me so charged, I decided to scrap my existing agenda and apply what I learned. Instead of preaching, I listened. As a result, I learned about higher level needs, not just utilitarian features. The Program has already been invaluable in discussions with my design team!"
"UC Berkeley's Product Management Program completely transformed my ideas for how I will approach our new products."
"The UC Berkeley Product Management Program was a big wake-up call for me. It was the refresher I needed and has been invaluable in my recent jump from a big corporation to a startup. I'm already incorporating everything I learned into my new position."
"The program logistics were top notch and the instructors were amazing. In just a few days, they covered all the topics relevant to product management, provided foundational principals, technologies, and examples, and introduced academic and industry references.”
"The program was a fantastic experience that was well worth the investment. This course will make a difference!"
"The VCEP was incredibly informative, relevant, and inspiring. I will immediately be able to make a positive impact on our efforts to grow the life sciences ecosystem in Kansas through entrepreneurship initiatives and our investment activities."
"Having previous experiences in attending Executive Education programs of Top 10 US Business Schools, I can say that I had one of the best and most efficient time spent at UC Berkeley Executive Education!"
"Being able to step back and look at the industry from a larger perspective really helped me focus my attention once I got home. The panels verified many of my frustrations as an investor and a VC, but also gave me a few avenues to go down. While our ecosystem in my hometown is smaller, we can still provide a meaningful impact which is somewhat of a breakthrough I had during the course. I wish I had taken the course sooner."
"As an entrepreneur I was delighted to receive the "inside story" of major players within the Silicon Valley innovation ecosystem during the Venture Capital Executive Program at UC Berkeley. The educational method was quite exceptional too, by having the proper balance between case studies, lectures, class discussions and panels.”
"I truly enjoyed this course! In five days we covered the essential parts of venture capital thanks to a great faculty with relevant professional and academic background. Guest speakers from various parts of the industry provided additional insights and the diverse class from around the world offered a global perspective through discussions and group work. Overall, a great learning experience."
"If you are involved or are considering getting involved in the Venture Capital world as an investor or investee company, I would strongly recommend taking this course. The material covered is very relevant, practical and taught by an experienced Silicon Valley venture capitalist. The panel participants and guests are people who are currently involved in venture capital investing or are involved in VC funded companies. As such you are exposed to real life examples of how the material taught in the course is applied."
"The course was truly a global viewpoint from talented, interesting young professionals from around the world. I was pleased with the quality and quantity of faculty, panelists and experts that spoke during our week there. This was a very worthwhile experience, with much preparation and care put into the program and it added solid value to my professional experience."