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  Jon Burgstone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Professor Jon Burgstone, a businessman and professor, was CEO and co-founder of SupplierMarket.
Burgstone is also a graduate of the University of Michigan and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Currently Jon Burgstone is a private investor and Faculty Chairman of The Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology at the University of California, Berkeley.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jon_Burgstone   (157 words)

  
 Jon Burgstone
Burgstone is Managing Director of Symbol Capital, a San Francisco- based hedge fund, where he leads the firm's activities in portfolio management and research.
Burgstone also serves as Faculty Chair and Adjunct Professor of the Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology at the University of California, Berkeley.
Burgstone earned a BS in engineering from the University of Illinois, an MS in engineering from the University of Michigan, and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
www.ieor.berkeley.edu /People/Faculty/burgstone.htm   (199 words)

  
 Jon Burgstone Bio   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Jon Burgstone served as Vice President and co-head of corporate development.
Jon Burgstone actively supports organizations working to improve education and to promote civil rights.
Jon Burgstone earned a BS in engineering from the University of Illinois, an MS in engineering from the University of Michigan and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
cet.berkeley.edu /faculty/jon_burgstone.htm   (161 words)

  
 Jon Burgstone   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Jon Burgstone a businessman cofounded SupplierMarket.com in 1999.
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www.freeglossary.com /Jon_Burgstone   (428 words)

  
 People: Jon Burgstone - CET
Jon Burgstone serves as Faculty Chair of the CET, and as Managing Director of the private investment partnership Symbol Capital, LLC.
He currently serves on boards for the Rock Center for Entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School and the University of Illinois College of Engineering.
Burgstone teaches IEOR 190A, Engineering Entrepreneurship and IEOR 171, Leading Organizations.
media.coe.berkeley.edu /CET/index.php?title=People:_Jon_Burgstone   (170 words)

  
 SupplierMarket.com Writes Final Chapter
Last February, Jon Burgstone and Asif Satchu were 27.
CEO Burgstone and President Satchu had no trouble attracting an $8 million first round of funding, and along with it good engineers and plenty of buzz about their site.
And it gave Burgstone and Satchu, each of whom retained an 11.4 percent stake in their company, a stock holding worth, for the moment, about $66 million apiece.
boston.internet.com /news/print.php/403691   (711 words)

  
 KKR Executives are Lead Investors in Web Start-Up
In this case, the founders, Jon Burgstone and Asif Satchu, specifically sought buyout funds based on the firms' experience in owning manufacturing concerns and understanding the process by which companies find sources of materials.
Burgstone and Satchu were 20-something Harvard Business School classmates when Jon's grandfather Lewis Hansen, who owns Hansen Enterprises, a small machine-tools company outside of Chicago, called his grandson last winter.
Burgstone, 27, told his grandfather he would look on the Web for him.
www.fenwaypartners.com /pr_sup_kkr.htm   (511 words)

  
 Forefront Winter 2005
Professor Jon Burgstone’s IEOR 190, the College’s new class in engineering entrepreneurship, was in such high demand when it was first offered spring semester 2004 that more than 100 students showed up for the 45 available slots.
One student presenting his business plan for an entrepreneurial venture was met with a classroom full of raised hands, a barrage of questions, and a challenge from the instructor: “Does everyone agree that this business can generate $60 million of revenue in its first two years?”
“Students are thirsty for this kind of knowledge,” says Jon Burgstone, IEOR professor and CET faculty chairman.
www.coe.berkeley.edu /forefront/winter2005/cet.html   (471 words)

  
 Harvard Gazette: HBS contest features social enterprise
Among those addressing the large audience in Burden auditorium were two of last year's winning team members, Bob Rosin and Sarah Boatman, both graduates of the Class of 2000 and cofounders of Bang Networks, a developer of an intelligent routing network for the Internet.
Former runner-up Jon Burgstone '99, cofounder of Suppliermarket.com, recently purchased by Ariba, urged students not to be discouraged by the gyrations of the stock market.
The HBS Business Plan Contest is the capstone of the School's extensive entrepreneurship curriculum.
www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/2001/05.10/12-hbscontest.html   (477 words)

  
 93rd Homecoming celebration begins Oct. 19
The Illini Comeback guests will meet with students from their colleges, participate in the parade and pep rally, attend the football game, and be guests at gatherings hosted by Chancellor Nancy Cantor and President James J. Stukel.
A professor of engineering at the University of California at Berkeley, Burgstone manages Chronos Capital, an investment firm that he co-founded.
In addition to his support of organizations working to improve education and promote civil rights, Burgstone currently serves on the U. of I. College of Engineering Board of Visitors.
www.news.uiuc.edu /NEWS/03/1013homecoming.html   (717 words)

  
 Engineering News, April 11, 2005
Jon Burgstone, faculty chair of the Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology and IEOR adjunct professor, earned a B.S. in engineering from the University of Illinois, an M.S. in engineering from the University of Michigan, and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
He was co-founder and CEO of SupplierMarket, a leading internet supply chain software provider.
Professor Minute with IEOR Adjunct Professor Jon Burgstone
www.coe.berkeley.edu /engnews/Spring05/EN12S/profmin.html   (286 words)

  
 Plastics News - E-business
"One of our roles is to provide a central directory to connect buyers, suppliers and the marketplace," said Jon Corshen, vice president of product marketing at Ariba.
SupplierMarket co-founders Asif Satchu and Jon Burgstone will move to Mountain View, and Chief Operating Officer Rick Feldt will run the company in Burlington, Allison said.
The company wants to add functions to help suppliers and buyers collaborate on design and order forecasting, he said.
www.plasticsnews.com /ebiz/news2.html?id=962400115   (889 words)

  
 San Francisco magazine
Whereas they used to suss out whether a prospect was a top or a bottom, now detecting a date's lack of readiness for kids or his poor fit for either the breadwinner or househusband role can be a deal breaker.
"In the first couple of dates with my boyfriend," concedes my friend Jon Burgstone, now a Cal professor, "one of the things I was looking for was [whether he] was open to having kids.
But all laughs aside, the underlying drive of men like Loeffler, Burgstone, and Swanson to have kids won't dissipate.
sanfran.com /home/view_story/343/?PHPSESSID=30ce9204269b5bc83b5fb146...   (3018 words)

  
 TEC AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS | Entrepreneur's Online Resource Center   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
He also provides his views on venture financing generally.
Speaker: Jon Burgstone, Managing Director and co-founder, Chronos Capital
Burgstone, an entrepreneur who sold his first company, SupplierMarket.com for over $900 million, articulates his views on venture funding and his experiences with Sequoia and other leading venture firms.
www.ge.uiuc.edu /tec/public/eonline/eonline.html   (1873 words)

  
 Internet Fever
That sentiment is shared by Asif Satchu, president of SupplierMarket.com., an online marketplace where mid-size manufacturers of semi-custom industrial parts can find and sell to new customers.
Satchu and co-founder Jon Burgstone started the company this summer after winning second prize in Harvard Business School's annual business plan competition.
Funded almost immediately by Battery Ventures, Satchu and Burgstone briefly considered moving to Silicon Valley, but soon nixed the idea.
www.businessweek.com /adsections/country/mass/massinternet.htm   (519 words)

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