Venue: Department of Engineering, Lecture Room 4

The £1k Challenge represents the next stage of the Entrepreneurs Business Creation Challenge and is open to all members of the University. New challenge entrants are welcome.  It is not required to have been a 100 word entrant to enter this stage of the contest.  To enter the competition you must submit a 1500 word Executive Summary by the 7th of December. To help you write the best possible entry, CUE is running a £1k Business Training Event on Saturday, 28 November 2009. 

Date: Saturday 31 January 2023

Venue: LR1, Engineering Dept (NB this is not the same as LT1 - see a map here)

Time: 10:00 - 15:00

Please note change of venue. This is due to middle-east demonstrations at the Law Faculty this week

CUE would like to invite you to our business training event on Saturday 31st January at 10am in the Engineering Dept. Whether you are a seasoned entrepreneur, setting up your first company, or just want to find out what it takes to be an entrepreneur, everyone is welcome to attend.

For those who are interested, this event will also prepare you for the £5k challenge. In our first talk, at 10am, Hugh Purser, a competition judge, will share his views on what kind of entries impress him.  Remember that to enter the £5k Challenge, you will need to write an executive summary of up to 3500 words and submit it to us by 1pm on the 23rd of February. Requirements may vary depending on which competition stream you choose to enter.

Please register here

The event begins at 10am prompt, so please arrive on time. 

Programme

10.00 - 10.15 Registration and Coffee

10.15 - 11.00 Hugh Purser - Business Plan Basics

11.15 - 12.00 Philip Baddeley - Hanging on to Your Equity

12.15 - 13:00 Lunch Break

13.00 - 13.45 Peter Hiscocks - Marketing a Start-Up

14.00 - 14.45 Neil Davidson - Five ways to Kill your Start-Up

14:45 - 15:00 Cambridge Trainee Solicitors Group 

Presentation materials from the Intellectual Property Workshop can be found below

Venue: Law Faculty, Room LG17

How Will You Protect Your Big Idea?

This workshop is aimed at providing potential entrepreneurs in Cambridge with the knowledge to navigate issues of patenting, protecting their technology, and establishing trade marks. Speakers will include patent attorneys, solicitors, and entrepreneurs who have had to deal with issues of intellectual property protection.

In between the talks there will be business surgeries, where participants are given the opportunity to speak to intellectual property experts on how they can protect their idea.

A light lunch is provided and following the main sessions there will be opportunity for networking between participants.

Anyone is welcome to attend the event but in order to manage numbers, please register here.

Venue: Engineering  Department,  Lecture Theatre 4 (note venue changed from LT 0)

Take part in the £1k Business Training event and find out how to impress the judges with your ideas.

The £1k Challenge represents the next stage of the Entrepreneurs Challenge and is open to all members of the University. To enter the competition you must submit a 1500 word Executive Summary by the 5th of December and to help you write the best possible entry, we are running a Business Training event on 8th November to help get you think through the issues.

The event will cover the areas of market research, assessing your ideas, dealing with finances and also what Judges look for in an entry.

Anyone is welcome to attend the event but in order to manage numbers, please register here.

Time: 6.00 for 6.30pm
Venue: Judge Business School

More important than having a great idea is figuring out how to sell it! Entrepreneurship may be instinctive, but presenting to venture capitalists benefits from rehearsal in the same way as a singer with raw talent still needs to be trained. We invite you to come and pitch your idea, receive feedback and learn from other pitches.

The masterclass will be led by Andrea Blakesley. Andrea founded Mudhut in late 2005 with the aim of advising individuals and organisations on complex verbal communication. Prior to founding Mudhut, Andrea spent three years as a Director of the Great Eastern Investment Forum, the leading UK business angel network based in Cambridge. Responsible for the selection of early stage companies and recruitment of investors, Andrea also led the GEIF investment readiness programme, coaching over 100 companies on their investment presentations to private investors. Andrea has experience in consulting companies from a wide range of sectors including biotechnology, telecoms, finance, internet, leisure, engineering and the arts.

4-6th April 2008
Bethnal Green, London

What happens when you get a bunch of social innovators and software developers together,give them a set of social problems and only 48 hours to solve them? We’re going to find out.

Attached to this page are the presentations from £5k Training Event held on 9th Feb 2008.

Date: Saturday 9 February 2023

Time: 10am

Venue: Judge Business School

CUE would like to invite you to our business training event on Saturday 9th February at 10am in the Judge Business School.

Whether you are a seasoned entrepreneur, setting up your first company, or even just want to find out what it takes to be an entrepreneur, everyone is welcome to attend.

Our Keynote speaker is Lee Smith, one of the founding members of ARM, who will tell us the story of how a company that started with 12 engineers in Cambridge became a global standard: their embedded microprocessors are used in most digital devices on the planet today!

For the ambitious, this event will also prepare you for the £5k challenge. In our first talk, at 10am, Bob, Pettigrew, a competition judge, will share his views on what kind of entries impress him.
Remember that to enter the £5k Challenge, you will need to write an executive summary of up to 3500 words and submit it to us by 11.59pm GMT on the 22nd of February.

Please note: The event begins at 10am prompt, so please arrive before then. There is no need to register.

Date: Saturday 26 January 2023
Time: 10am-12pm
Venue: Engineering Department, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1PZ.

More important than having a great idea is figuring out how to sell it! Entrepreneurship may be instinctive, but presenting to venture capitalists benefits from rehearsal in the same way as a singer with raw talent still needs to be trained. We invite you to come and pitch your idea, receive feedback and learn from other pitches.

The masterclass will be led by Andrea Blakesley. Andrea founded Mudhut in late 2005 with the aim of advising individuals and organisations on complex verbal communication. Prior to founding Mudhut, Andrea spent three years as a Director of the Great Eastern Investment Forum, the leading UK business angel network based in Cambridge. Responsible for the selection of early stage companies and recruitment of investors, Andrea also led the GEIF investment readiness programme, coaching over 100 companies on their investment presentations to private investors. Andrea has experience in consulting companies from a wide range of sectors including biotechnology, telecoms, finance, internet, leisure, engineering and the arts.

There is no need to register - just turn up.

Please note that £1k Challenge entrants are expected to attend.