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January 22, 2009 - 7pm
Location TBA
Idea Idol is the flagship ideas competition run by Oxford Entrepreneurs. We are giving away up to £10,000 and many other prizes for your ideas. Come along to the Idea Idol Information Session on January 22, 2009 to learn about the competition and to hear from last year’s winners, and join us afterwards for the Idea Idol 2009 Launch Party for free drinks, dancing and prizes!
The deadline for Idea Idol 2009 Entries is February 1, 2009 at 17:00. Click here for more information on Idea Idol 2009 and to submit your entry.
The Bridge, 8-10pm - Hythe Brige Street, Oxford
Join the OE Commitee for a Night at the Bridge! In celebration of our first term’s success, the Oxford Entrepreneurs Commitee would like to invite you to a festive drinks evening at the Bridge on Tuesday, Decemeber 2nd from 8-10pm. Join our guest list, and wile away the hours with jump-the-queue passes and exclusive entry into the VIP section.
The first 50 people will receive free OE Cocktails. Arrive by 8:30 to jump the queue!
Click here to get on the guest list!
| November 27, 2008 | ||
| 6:00 pm | to | 7:30 pm |
Said Business School, Rhodes Trust Theatre
For many young entrepreneurs starting a business, the biggest challenge is raising the funds to get the business off the ground. Are you looking to raise capital for your start-up, but don’t know where to begin? What funding options are available and which one is best for you? What are investors looking for and how can you best position yourself for success? Join OxPEN and OE for Into the Dragon’s Den, a panel discussion that explores the merits and drawbacks of possible sources of funding and provides insights on what to say and do to land investment.
Click here to register while places are still available!
Enterprising Women Series
Oxford Entrepreneurs Enterprising Women Series
November 19, 2008, 7-9pm
SBS, Reception Hall
On Global Women’s Enterprise Day, join OE and Oxford Women in Business for an evening workshop with OxWIB Founding Patron Sue Stockdale, a lecturer on entrepreneurship and leadership and the author of best selling books Kickstart Your Motivation and Secrets of Successful Women Entrepreneurs. Her business career extends from a senior management role in Corporate Training in a UK Utility, to leading a major improvement project within the United Nations in the Former Yugoslavia. As a successful polar adventurer and athlete, Sue was the first British woman to walk to the Magnetic North Pole, has participated in expeditions to the Geographical North Pole, Antarctica and Greenland, and has represented Scotland in 3000m and cross country events. In 1997 she founded Mission Possible, a company providing a range of support for corporate and entrepreneurial women across Europe. She is passionate about supporting women and is a Women’s Enterprise Ambassador. In 2003 Sue was recognised as a Pioneer to the Nation by HM The Queen.
Oxford Entrepreneurs Green Enterprise Series
November 12, 2008, 12:15-2pm
SBS, Nelson Mandela Theatre
Tim Smit is the CEO and Co-Founder of the award-winning Eden Project in Cornwall. Eden began as a dream in 1995 and opened its doors to the public in 2000. Since then more than 8 million people have come to see what was once a sterile pit turned into a cradle of life containing world-class horticulture and startling architecture symbolic of human endeavor. Eden has contributed £800 million into the Cornish economy. Eden is proud of its success in changing people’s perception of the potential for and the application of science, by communicating and interpreting scientific concepts through the use of art, drama and storytelling as well as living up to its mission to take a pivotal role in local regeneration. It demonstrates once and for all that sustainability is not about sandals and nut cutlets, it is about good business best practice and the citizenship values of the future.
November 4, 2008 ~ 5:30-7:00pm, The Corner Club
Free Cocktails
ESSIE WEINGARTEN, a beauty industry icon and founder of Essie Cosmetics, Ltd. is a savvy businesswoman with a keen eye for color and a flair for names. Driven by her passion for a perfect manicure, Essie polish has become the brand of choice in fine salons and spas worldwide. Most people associate Essie with the ever-popular Ballet Slippers, a cult classic (pinkiest pink with white undertones) and a beauty blockbuster in every sense of the word. Twenty five years and 300 colors later, the girl from Queens has an apartment on Park Avenue, a house in the Hamptons, and a $150 million empire with her name on it. Essie nail polish is sold in 50,000 salons and spas across the nation and more than 60 countries worldwide.
Ideas2Market is pleased to introduce the Start it up in a day BOOTCAMP - an intensive one-day workshop that will provide you with everything you need to know to start your venture. The BOOTCAMP is run by Business Boffins and the Ideas2Market Team and it is sponsored by Octopus Ventures, Deutsche Bank, Business Link, Cmypitch.com and Linklaters.
Whether you are a serial entrepreneur, have an idea that you want to launch into a venture or are just interested in entrepreneurship, the BOOTCAMP is for you. We are searching for enthusiastic new recruits who believe that they have what it takes to be the next Richard Branson or Anita Roddick.
The Bootcamp takes place on November 12, 2008 from 9:15am-5:15pm at the Said Business School with a keynote address by Tim Smit of the Eden Project. Recruits get a Start-up pack and a BOOTCAMP shirt. There are only 40 places for the BOOTCAMP.
Click here to apply and tell us why you should be selected to attend the 2008 Oxford Entrepreneurs BOOTCAMP. The deadline for applications is November 3, 2008.
October 29, 2008, 6:45-8:30pm
Rhodes Trust Theatre, SBS
FREE Cobra Beer Reception Following
Join us for an evening with Lord Karan Bilimoria, an entrepreneur best known as the Founder and Chairman of Cobra Beer. He received the Bachelor of Commerce degree from Osmania University in 1981. He founded Cobra Beer in 1989, aiming to create a less gassy lager more suitable for drinking with curry and other foods. In 1999, the company diversified into wine, and as of 2006 has a turnover of £96 million at retail value. In 2005, he became Chancellor of Thames Valley University — the United Kingdom’s youngest university chancellor at the time and in 2006, he was chosen as a cross-bench life peer with the title Baron Bilimoria, of Chelsea in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea by the House of Lords Appointments Commission, becoming the first-ever Parsi in the House of Lords.
Register here to see Lord Karan Bilimoria on October 29, 2008
October 27, 2008, 7-9pm
Said Business School
SIFE is about giving yourself the edge, both as an entrepreneur and as someone applying for a graduate job. It is an international business competition in which student teams set up socially and environmentally sustainable projects which help the disadvantaged. Your projects are then judged against 1600 universities all around the world. Success brings free world travel, job offers, and the knowledge that you’ve changed people’s lives. Nurture your leadership skills, business experience or teamwork abilities in free training weekends at hotels. Most importantly though, SIFE gives you the framework, support and opportunities to create something that can change the lives of the disadvantaged, a feeling that will last with you forever. To learn more about SIFE and to make a difference, attend the SIFE Orientation.
October 22, 2008, 18:00-20:00
Said Business School, Seminar Room A
Have you ever thought of becoming your own boss by becoming an entrepreneur? Do you want to start paving the way for your first million?
In partnership with Business Boffins, OE is launching a NEW Ideas2Market Programme that can provide you with the knowledge and skills to begin a venture while in university. On October 22 at 18:00 at the SBS come participate in the Ideas2Market Ideas Brainstorming and Team Building Workshop and:
- Gain insights into the benefits and realities of being an entrepreneur by Dr. Russell Smith, MD of Business Boffins
- Learn about how OE Ideas2Market Programme can help you to bring your ideas to fruition
- Network and team up with some of the most innovative students in the UK; and,
- Hear from the OE company GroupSpaces about their OE start-up experience.
Register here to attend the Ideas2Market Team Building Workshop
