Apr 10, 2019How Bruin Entrepreneurs Rebuilt a Website from the Ground UpOver Fall Quarter, the Bruin Entrepreneurs Tech Team has been developing a new website to complement our rebranding efforts. We officially launched this January at bruinentrepreneurs.org and really wanted to share our journey. Branding BE: A word from our Design Team Bruin Entrepreneurs had the idea of doing a whole club rebranding on the back burner for a…Design5 min readDesign5 min read
Jan 24, 2019How we built a community of entrepreneursWith over a 45,000 student body, the task of cultivating a vibrant entrepreneurial community at UCLA may seem daunting and infeasible to most. Yet Bruin Entrepreneurs takes on this challenge, hustling to serve UCLA undergrads through campus-wide initiatives such as 1000 Pitches, Startup Fair, Designathon, Startup Labs, VC Series and…Entrepreneurship3 min readEntrepreneurship3 min read
Jan 7, 20191000 Pitches — UCLA 2018It starts with a pitch not-so-pefect What comes into mind when you think of a gaming company? Blizzard Entertainment? Activision? What about Slack? It turns out that before this powerful and playful workplace messaging platform became the success story it is today, its origin story is that of a video game named Glitch. The game was a casual, 2D browser-based game that utilized chat rooms and encouraged collaborative crafting and gathering activities. Glitch…Startup8 min readStartup8 min read
Nov 16, 2018Why Working At a Startup May Be The Move For YouHow Do You Know If Startups Are Right For You? In our sixth Weekly Nights event, Bruin Entrepreneurs shared their experiences working at a startup. Our panelists included UCLA students and Bruin Entrepreneurs board members Hao Nguyen from Playfull, Cody Swain from iBeat, and Anshul Aggarwal from Helix. The three are computer science majors who have worked as software engineers…Startup4 min readStartup4 min read
Published inBruin Entrepreneurs Stories·Sep 1, 2018What we did in 2017–2018We notice that we get a lot of students asking: “What do you do at Bruin Entrepreneurs?” We decided that maybe this recap post would help answer this question. The 2017–2018 academic year was a great year for Bruin Entrepreneurs (BE), full of exciting new events and ideas. Here’s a…Startup6 min readStartup6 min read
Published inBruin Entrepreneurs Stories·May 6, 2018Designathon 2018Designathon was a day-long event hosted by Bruin Entrepreneurs and Creative Labs with the goal of fostering a community of designers at UCLA. On top of participating in a 3 hour competition, student designers and creatives from diverse backgrounds and skill levels had the opportunity to participate in workshops and…Design8 min readDesign8 min read
Jun 1, 2015On Tuesday, Kiel Berry, EVP of the Machine Shop, walked into the UCLA James Wooden Center and gave…Kiel Berry @ Bruin Entrepreneurs Weekly Nights — 05/28 On Tuesday, Kiel Berry, EVP of the Machine Shop, walked into the UCLA James Wooden Center and gave one of the most interesting talks that the crowd had ever heard. He was engaging, interactive, and informative- the perfect trio. By walking…3 min read3 min read
Feb 2, 2015Finding Uniqueness and SingularityA talk by Peter Thiel. — Peter Thiel can be accredited to some of the most path-breaking technological ventures of Silicon Valley. His illustrious ventures include co-founding PayPal, Palantir and being one of the early investors in social media giant –Facebook. …3 min read3 min read
Published inbVentures @ UCLA·Dec 5, 2014bVentures Fall’14We are excited to reveal the teams that from the program for Fall 2014! At our incubator program, we focus on providing students with access to mentorship, co-working space, and resources to further their startup development. We will have a Demo Day on Tuesday (12/09) at the Games Lounge, John…4 min read4 min read
Nov 13, 2014Blackstone Launchpad UCLA Grand Opening“What the LaunchPad does is to create possibilities for futures that most American undergraduates have never had.” - Dr. William Green, Co-Founder, University of Miami LaunchPad The college based entrepreneurship foster program successfully began at the University of Michigan in 2010 and has now spread to Ohio, Pennsylvania, Florida, Montana…3 min read3 min read
