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UCLA Anderson

What UCLA Anderson Amounts To

Hosts the SoCal ETA conference.

At a Glance

Courses
1 named course, below.
Club
An ETA group inside the Entrepreneur Association, whose pages lead with what it runs rather than a mission: the roundtable and the conference.
Money
Nothing published.
Conference
The SoCal ETA Conference, whose third annual edition ran in April 2026 at the Luskin Conference Center.

The Classes

  • Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition, an Executive MBA capstoneTaught by Kent Weaver.

Who teaches and leads it

  • Kent Weaver, whom the school's ETA pages name as its search fund and ETA lecturer, and an investor

What Else It Runs

  • An annual ETA Roundtable: panels across the journey from sourcing a deal to building value after the close.
  • Kent Weaver's class on alternative paths to entrepreneurship, which the school's own feature names as the first door before the capstone.

Open to readers outside the school

  • A public news feature on ETA as the middle path between a startup and private equity, on the school's own site.

Where to Look

Other Schools

The Intern & Job Board carries the programs that pay a salary to search, and Investors the firms that fund one. What a student group runs on is in the materials for ETA clubs.