As the year is nearing the good old days of revision Networking 612 will let you catch your breath… but not without a bang. During an evening of awards, small talk and goodbye’s from Kent Round One together with Kent Business School reunited to acknowledge all the hard work and interest from the participants.
The event culminated with an award handing ceremony for the Business Idea competition finalists.
There were 29 great ideas which three independent judges scored on viability, innovation and creativity. It was a challenge to shortlist the top eight that had to come back and presented their business ideas to another round of judges at the Bulb with the chance to be awarded at Network612 from £5000 prize pot.
Despite some tough competition from finalists, we are pleased to announce that the Winner of UoK Business Ideas Competition 2010 is Sinan Assaf. The MSc Business Management student due to confidentiality would not disclose the concept of the idea at such early stage. However the idea is “a web based business, with B2B application that is not targeted at the student market”. With this riddle the young entrepreneur leaves everyone intrigued.
Over the past few years at university Sinan kept himself busy being constantly involved in activities and competitions that would boost his business experience and increase his chances to succeed. In 2009 Sinan, signed up for the £10 Challenge and organised a team to help him with his mini enterprise called ‘Cheaper Computer Care’ and offered his services as a computing technician that lead him to triumph and £370 of profit.
Recently Sinan was also part of UoK student team and was named University Million Maker champion following The Prince’s Trust annual award ceremony for raising £3,182 by organising a range of fundraising events in order to support The Princess Trust.
With such inspiring record of achievements we wish Sinan, never to lose confidence in the strength of the business idea he has developed and have a successful start-up that will open new horizons for the UoK postgraduate.
However the statistics show the majority of candidates for UoK Business Ideas Competition were men. So the question of the week is: Are Women Less Interested in Entrepreneurship Than Men? Please leave your comments below.
Happy Easter to all our readers!
Much love,
A&P
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