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Berkeley Business Incubator
Responding to the growing interest among MBAs, Professor John Freeman founded the Berkeley Business Incubator, the first of its kind at a business school. The Berkeley Business Incubator has room for seven ventures by Haas School students or recent graduates and, in addition to a work place and address, provides access to an advisory board of faculty and some of Silicon Valley’s renowned leaders.
A few recent success stories that have graduated out of the incubator include:
- ZipRealty, an online real estate transaction firm, was launched by a team of MBA 99 graduates while they were still in the program. ZipRealty went live in 1999 after receiving $1.7 million in financing.
- The Big Network, a company developing games that attract viewers to their clients’ web sites, was founded by Steve Sellers and John Hanke, both Haas School MBAs 96. The Big Network recently was acquired by eUniverse for $17.1 million. The Big Network is Seller and Hanke’s second startup. Their first Internet game company, Archetype, sold for $7 million in 1997, within a year from their graduation.
AScribe, the public interest newswire, which distributes news releases from educational institutions, nonprofits, and foundations up- and downstream, and has completed two rounds of financing.
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