FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
If you have any questions not listed here, please feel free to contact us.
- What do we want to do?
- Who is eligible to become a member of the club?
- What kind of entrepreneurship are you fostering?
- What type of activities will the club sponsor?
- How are we going to do this?
- What kind of speaker backgrounds are we looking for?
- Aim to provide students with basic understanding of the businesses in science and engineering (especially at an early stage)
- What does a startup mean?
- How to start your own company? If you have a good idea, where do you go from there?
- What is venture capital, what is the big deal? Is venture capital your best option?
- Why is Intellectual Property so important? How do you get a patent? What other kinds of IP are available?
- How can a small company survive against the big guys?
- How to manage a small business?
- How to make your first sale? How to approach customers?
- Focus on personal development and creativity (non-technical skills)
- How to be efficient?
- How to evaluate difficult situations quickly and make educated decisions rather than impulsive ones?
- Why is character more important?
- What is creativity? How to be innovative?
- Practical technical skills
- Offer classes relevant to the industry
- Languages like Perl, Python, and Shell Scripts
- Tutorial on using industrial CAD and EDA tools
- How to nail a technical interview?
- Etc...
- Offer classes relevant to the industry
Who is eligible to become a member of the club?
Any Santa Clara student who is interested in entrepreneurship. Graduate and undergraduates are welcome. We want to create a strong lasting network between engineering, business, science, and law students. Members of EBA span all majors in SCU, here are some example majors of our members:
- Biology
- Business
- Marketing
- MIS
- Management
- Combined Sciences
- Computer Engineering
- Computer Science
- Electrical Engineering
- Engineering Management
- Mathematics
- MBA
We want to expand our network to include other majors.
What kind of entrepreneurship are you fostering?
We believe that entrepreneurship can be practiced in all aspects of life and business. Our goal is to create a society of entrepreneurs who take the initiative to make positive change in their lives and the lives of others. You can be an entrepreneur in a startup or in a big corporation and your own personal life. So in a way we are fostering all kinds of entrepreneurship. Guru.net gives the following synonyms for the word entrepreneur:
entrepreneur
noun
One that creates, founds, or originates: architect, author, creator, father, founder2, inventor, maker, originator, parent, patriarch.What type of activities will the club sponsor?
- Business Plan Competition (co-sponsorship with Business School)
- Informational sessions
- Current trends in High tech
- Speakers from the industry (engineering, marketing, and sales executives)
- Speakers from Academia (research labs and universities)
- Speakers from Law firms (especially IP lawyers)
- Venture Capital
- How to raise money?
- How to approach VCs?
- When to raise money?
- Consequences of VC funding?
- Other resources of funding?
- Social events
- Industry lunches
- Company tours
- Dinners
- Utilize the university’s alumni network
- Utilize current graduate students in the industry
- Collaboration with business clubs on campus especially with MBA-EC
- Promote exchange of ideas between business and engineering students
- Provide practical technical and personal development classes
What kind of speaker backgrounds are we looking for?
- Technical and strategy marketing
- Sales and Account management
- Research and Development
- Entrepreneurship and leadership
- Finance
- Information Systems and Engineering Management
- Consulting
- Engineering
- More information here