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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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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Announcement and presentations for the winners and runners-up of the 2011 University of Kent Business Ideas Competition
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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.

FINAL Network612 for this term April 7th 2011 -
Refreshments available

ALL WELCOME
Venue - The Bulb, Canterbury Innovation Centre  5.30 – 7.00pm