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• Aurora Biofuels Team Wins Global Intel, Berkeley Tech Challenge; Student Entrepreneurs Win Coveted Award: Funding and Access to VC Experts.

  - 2006-10-31

  Byline: Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley BERKELEY, Calif., Oct. 31 AScribe Newswire -- Aurora Biofuels, a Berkeley-based team whose technology promises to make bio-diesel a mainstream energy source, won the second global Intel+UC Berkeley Technology Entrepreneurship Challenge on Thursday, October 26, at the...

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• Fair Trade Venture Takes Top Global Social Venture Competition Prize.

  - 2005-04-21

  Byline: Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley BERKELEY, Calif., April 21 AScribe Newswire -- World of Good, a venture that promotes employment through fair trade with disadvantaged communities in developing countries while also working to support fair labor practices and encourage local economic development...

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• International Student Teams Propose New Business Ideas With Social Bottom Line in Global Social Venture Competition.

  - 2005-04-01

  Byline: Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley BERKELEY, Calif., April 1 AScribe Newswire -- Nine teams of MBA students planning social enterprises that range from applying nanotechnology to solar power systems in developing countries to training low-income urban youth to conduct market research on...

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• International Student Teams Propose New Business Ideas With Social Bottom Line in Global Social Venture Competition.

  - 2005-03-28

  Byline: Pending BERKELEY, Calif., March 28 AScribe Newswire -- Nine MBA teams planning social enterprises -- ranging from applying nanotechnology to solar power systems in developing countries to training low-income urban youth to conduct market research on their peer groups -- will compete ...

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• Global Social Venture Competition Selects International Winners to Launch Businesses Beyond Pure Profit; Judges Impressed by Social Ventures Focusing on Educational, Environmental, Urban Regeneration Issues.

  - 2004-04-22

  Byline: Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley BERKELEY, Calif., April 22 AScribe Newswire -- Four winning social ventures from the US and Europe took the top awards at the Global Social Venture Competition held at London Business School on April 16, 2004. The winners...

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• Sevin Rosen Funds Promotes Nick Sturiale to Partner; Promotion Follows Tradition of Adding Partners with Deep Entrepreneurial Operating Experience

  - 2002-04-11

  Business Editors PALO ALTO, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--April 11, 2002 Sevin Rosen Funds, an early-stage, technology venture capital firm, today announced the promotion of Nick Sturiale to partner. Sturiale has a successful background in managing startups, including Timbre Technologies, which had a ten-fold increase in investment rate of return. ...

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