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MIH-The Start up Resource for students and graduates

Thursday, July 7th, 2011

The Start up Resource for students and graduates

Resources

Are you struggling to find what you need with the masses of information online and elsewhere? All of our resources are organised by category and by what stage you are at in setting up your business. We have plenty of guides, factsheets, articles, document templates, videos and tools to get you started, so you don’t need to worry about finding the right information.

Mentoring System

Starting your business can be very rewarding but also a lot of hard work. Where do you start? Wouldn’t it be good to have all the help and support you need in just one place. From someone pointing you in the right direction to an online system to track your progress. Enter here to access all you need.

Webinars

Want to get more help and support but pushed for time? These short and informative webinars, give you lots of practical ideas and help on a wide range of business topics.

Virtual Guide

Thinking of starting your own business? See how MIH can help with this light touch virtual guide on the steps and support available when starting up Take a look at some short case studies from recent successful start ups and be inspired.

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Shell LiveWIRE Awards

Thursday, July 7th, 2011

Shell LiveWIRE Awards are one way in which young entrepreneurs can get cash, publicity and a well needed boost to get their businesses off the ground.

We’ve given our Awards page a little revamp, making it much more visual and providing a space where we can pull together all awards-related content on our site.

What’s New?

The new-look landing page www.shell-livewire.org/awards now offers the visitor two choices; go one way to find out more about our monthly £1,000 Shell LiveWIRE Grand Ideas Awards and the other for details of our annual £10,000 Shell LiveWIRE Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award 2011.

Within each sub-section, you can also see;

Awards-related news articles
Awards-related Tweets containing the #SLW11 hashtag
Awards-related videos
Awards-related images from our Flickr page
The latest additions to our ‘Hot 40′ shortlist for the Shell LiveWIRE Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award 2011
Highlights and success stories from former Shell LiveWIRE Award winners

Elevator Pitch Videos

Another big change is that in the latter half of each month, visitors can now watch the elevator pitch videos of those who have been shortlisted for our £1,000 Shell LiveWIRE Grand Ideas Awards, without being logged in.

You still need to login/be a registered member to vote, but we hope that by making the videos more open they will help inspire other would-be entrepreneurs and serve as a useful teaching aid for teachers, lecturers and business advisors.

Spread the word

We are proud of our awards and the positive impact they have had on businesses up and down the country. Cash is hard to come by for many young entrepreneurs, and so the
Shell LiveWIRE Awards are one way in which young entrepreneurs can get their businesses off the ground.

We need your help to spread the word. Below are some ways that you can help young entrepreneurs:

Forward this link www.shell-livewire.org/awards to your contacts
Tweet about the new site using the #SLW11 hashtag
Request printed promotional materials 0191 423 6229

We hope that the Shell LiveWIRE support and awards will be of assistance to your clients and contacts.

Shell LiveWIRE is a Shell Social Investment Programme that aims to help the community we serve – young entrepreneurs. We want our community to know about all the support that is out there for young start ups. If you run an awards scheme to help young entrepreneurs and wish to engage in reciprocal promotion please get in touch.

Thanks

Tags: competition, enterprise, entrepreneur, student enterprise, University of Kent
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VTKW Global Student Business Concept Challenge UoK Team

Thursday, July 7th, 2011

On June 28, 2011, VT KnowledgeWorks announced the university teams competing in the 2011 VT KnowledgeWorks Global Student Business Concept Challenge during the VT KnowledgeWorks Global Partnership Week in Blacksburg and Roanoke, Virginia, USA, August 21-27, 2011.

The Univerity of Kent Team!

Business concept and description:

Bio-Sense Diagnostics
A simple diagnostic test for the fast and efficient diagnosis of specific tumors. Based on the concept of the home pregnancy test, the idea is easily adapatable towards other diseases.

University of Kent team, pictured left to right: Caroline Tolley, Claudia Cattoni Rathje, William Humphries, Phoebe Maund, Emma Perot

The University of Kent team will be competing in the 2011 VT KnowledgeWorks Global Student Business Concept Challenge for the VT KnowledgeWorks Global Challenge Trophy and the $25,000 Grand Prize during the VT KnowledgeWorks Global Partnership Week in Blacksburg and Roanoke, Virginia, USA, August 21-27, 2011.

Tags: competition, enterprise, Kent students, student enterprise, University of Kent
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Free residential business start-up course 20-24 June

Tuesday, May 31st, 2011

Apply now to get a place on the Kent Foundation residential Business Start up Course.
Application form

A week-long fun and inspiring residential programm
Participants explore the concepts of starting new businesses or developing fledgling businesses.
When?           Monday 20^th – Friday 24^th June 2011.
Where?         Based in the heart of Kent at Palace Farm an eco-friendly, Green tourism site.
Who?             Student aged 17-25 from Kent and The University of Kent who are interested in establishing business roots in Kent.

Course Outline
Day One	Getting started – RU READY to do Business in Kent?
Day Two	Marketing 4 Real & Visits to local businesses
Day Three	Business Planning – In the Boardroom
Day Four	An Enterprising Journey – 24 hour team challenge
Day Five	GO – Final Presentations

Last year’s participants described the course as “life-changing”and several have already started their own business

Tags: employability skills, enterprise, entrepreneur, Kent students, student enterprise, workshop
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The Kent Global Challenge Team

Thursday, May 26th, 2011

We now have the names of the five member University of Kent team for the VT Knowledge Global Business Concept Challenge, which takes place in Virginia Tech University in August this year. The team consists of thres bioscience PhD students, William Humphries, Caroline Tolley and Claudia Rathje, who have invented a new diagnostic tool for testing for specific diseases, and they will be joined by Phoebe Maund, studying Cnservation and Emma Perot, studying law.

All 5 will fly out on the 21st August to compete against teams from around the world.

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Get your errands done through Tasksauce

Sunday, May 15th, 2011

Tasksauce is a simple system allows visitors to get just about anything done by safe and reliable people. If you have a task you want done you just list it on the site, state how much you want to pay, the money is held until the job is completed and the funds are released.

Anyone can apply to be an errand runner on the site. However, all runners are background checked which helps to ensure only serious people will apply to perform the tasks. This also helps make the site more secure, when compared to Craigslist and others. Check it out at: http://www.tasksauce.com

New businesses from the University of Kent Enterprise Hub

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Global University Entrepreneurship Spirit Survey

Friday, May 13th, 2011

Student Enterprise at Kent – We need your views!

We would like to invite you to be part of an international project looking at students’ attitudes and intentions towards entrepreneurship. For the first time the UK is participating in this prestigious project as one of 27 countries world-wide.

We want to be able to accurately represent UK students’ opinions and views on entrepreneurship, so please take 10 minutes to complete the on-line survey
Thank you very much for your participation!

Tags: enterprise, entrepreneur, student enterprise, survey
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Free tickets for Business Startup Show

Wednesday, April 27th, 2011

Free tickets for the next show in just 3 weeks are now available!

As our 25th show, it is guaranteed to be bigger and better than ever – with a host of new workshops and show features, together with a speaker lineup that has to be the most impressive yet.

On the 19th and 20th of May we are back at ExCeL in London, with over 200 companies all offering their services to anyone who is starting a business, or looking to grow their existing business. We also have have 150 seminars, which as always are completely free to attend, 5 workshops, 15 One-to-Ones, Speed Networking, The Midas Touch and a couple of surprises thrown in for extra measure!

Once again the show is completely free, so please click the link below and a couple of weeks before the show you will receive your tickets, plus our huge glossy showguide in the post: http://www.bstartup.com

Tags: enterprise, London, startup, student enterprise, student enterprise conference
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Week Long Enterprise Experience June 20-24th

Saturday, April 2nd, 2011

Kent Foudnation, supported by the University of Kent, have organised a week long residential course in Kent
20 – 24th June 2011
FREE to successful applicants
What is included?
Meals, accommodation, seminars, workshops, incorporating outdoor challenges, specialist instruction. Business help & advice about setting up your own company.

Enterprise Experience Application Form. Further kent.foundation@kent.gov.uk Telephone: 01622 694341

Tags: course, employability skills, enterprise, entrepreneur, University of Kent
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Final Network612 for this year

Saturday, April 2nd, 2011

Announcement and presentations for the winners and runners-up of the 2011 University of Kent Business Ideas Competition
&
Oghenevwoke Ighure
‘A Review of Trade and Investment Opportunities’

Ogbenevwoke graduated in Nigeria as an economist and is a trained statistician. He is a member of the Nigerian Institute of Management. In 2007 he was selected as one of only 101 Young African Leaders to the African Business Leaders Forum. A member of RISE NETWORKS, Business Minds and Small Business Owners in Nigeria.