Seminars
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Title: ANNUAL ALUMNI ADVISORY BOARD CAREER PANEL: Preparing to be a Software Entrepreneur - Real Software Startup Stores In The Current Market Environment
Date: Thursday, February 4, 2010
Time: 4:15 p.m. - 5:45 p.m.
Location: 3400 Boelter Hall
Calendar: Seminars
Contact: Edna Todd
Title: CS 201: Extracting Concepts From Text
Speaker:
MARK CHAVIRA, Google
Date: Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Time: 4:15 p.m. - 5:45 p.m.
Location: 3400 Boelter Hall
Calendar: Seminars
Contact: Edna Todd
Title: CS Undergraduates Town Hall Meeting
Date: Thursday, February 18, 2010
Time: 4:15 p.m. - 5:45 p.m.
Location: 3400 Boelter Hall
Calendar: Seminars
Contact: Edna Todd
Title: CS 201: TBA
Speaker:
DR W. PRZYTULA, HRL Malibu
Date: Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Time: 4:15 p.m. - 5:45 p.m.
Location: 3400 Boelter Hall
Calendar: Seminars
Contact: Edna Todd
Title: CS 201: TBA
Speaker:
BENJAMIN HOROWITZ, Andreessen Horowitz
Date: Thursday, February 25, 2010
Time: 4:15 p.m. - 5:45 p.m.
Location: 3400 Boelter Hall
Calendar: Seminars
Contact: Edna Todd
Seminar Abstracts
Preparing to be a Software Entrepreneur - Real Software Startup In The Current Market Environment
Greg Martin – RedPoint Ventures
Eytan Elbaz – Opteama
Per Petterson – Estalea
Ben Zamanzadeh [Moderator] - LeadPoint
CS Department Alumni
Information:
UCLA Engineering, like other leading academic institutions, has an increasing focus on fostering entrepreneurism, helping transition new technologies, systems and processes from research to commercialization, preparing its students for the possibility of founding a startup venture. This year, the Computer Science department has invited CS graduates and Venture Capital leaders who have had many successful startups under their belts to share their experience in this seminar. Today’s difficult market/financial environment makes this seminar a valuable session for you, the budding or in-transition entrepreneur, or one who hopes to step out and become one.
Come and listen to three successful entrepreneurs describe their companies, and give an account of their experience with the process of germinating an idea for a startup venture, preparing and pitching a rigorous and believable business plan, raising necessary funding, and even devising the proverbial ‘exit strategy’. Ask them how UCLA CS programs helped them and hear them recount/analyze successes and failures in their ventures. Hear their advice to budding entrepreneurs on how to deal with the current economic conditions and not only survive, but thrive!
Mark Chavira
Google
Abstract:
I will give a brief overview of Google AdWords search advertising system, focusing on different properties of the AdWords search ads auctions. I will give a description of several iterations of legacy Traffic Estimator product and different approaches that were tried to solve the prediction problem as well as our latest approach. Finally, I will talk about metrics we use for monitoring system accuracy, a brief overview of the system architecture, and some of the tools we used to implement it.