Mayfield Fellows Program
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The Mayfield Fellows Program is a university program that offers students in-depth training and experience in high-tech entrepreneurship.
The program, originally called the "Technology Ventures Co-op," was founded in 1996 at Stanford University
and expanded in 2001 to include the University of California, Berkeley
. The two programs each have a slightly different focus. At Stanford, the students are generally seniors, mostly in engineering and science, often pursuing coterminal Masters degrees. At Berkeley, the students are generally graduate students in business or engineering.
The students benefit from doing case studies in the classroom, interning at high-tech startup companies, and meeting with senior-level mentors from those companies and the venture capital
industry.
The program, originally called the "Technology Ventures Co-op," was founded in 1996 at Stanford University
Stanford University
The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...
and expanded in 2001 to include the University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA...
. The two programs each have a slightly different focus. At Stanford, the students are generally seniors, mostly in engineering and science, often pursuing coterminal Masters degrees. At Berkeley, the students are generally graduate students in business or engineering.
The students benefit from doing case studies in the classroom, interning at high-tech startup companies, and meeting with senior-level mentors from those companies and the venture capital
Venture capital
Venture capital is financial capital provided to early-stage, high-potential, high risk, growth startup companies. The venture capital fund makes money by owning equity in the companies it invests in, which usually have a novel technology or business model in high technology industries, such as...
industry.