http://www.oxfordentrepreneurs.co.uk The student society for entrepreneurship at the University of Oxford Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:53:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Dear Oxford Entrepreneurs, OE has a rich history of excellence in promoting student enterprise as the largest and most active student enterprise organisation in Europe. After seven years of growth, we continue to hold true to our mission of encouraging and supporting student entrepreneurship by providing inspiration, education, networking and ... http://www.oxfordentrepreneurs.co.uk/archive/2009/06/22/2008-2009-year-in-review/ Oxford Entrepreneurs is proudly launching a prestigious new programme called “The Oxprentice” – a multi-stage business skills competition taking place in the 09-10 academic year, and climaxing with one Oxford student being crowned the first-ever, well, Oxprentice! With lots of applicants vying for the prizes and publicity that will be showered ... http://www.oxfordentrepreneurs.co.uk/archive/2009/05/28/oxprentice-tests-the-water-with-the-aqua-botanica-sales-challenge/ May 8, 2009 – 7.30pm Adam Street Club – The Strand, London Registration Full The crisp surroundings of the Adam Street Club on The Strand, London, play host to this year’s Oxford Entrepreneurs Alumni engagement on Friday 8th May. Oxford Entrepreneurs has a diverse and rich community of alumni, and the committee is ... http://www.oxfordentrepreneurs.co.uk/archive/2009/05/07/london-alumni-event/ May 6, 2009 – 7pm Said Business School Register: http://oe.wufoo.com/forms/brent-hoberman/ Brent Co-Founded Lastminute.com in April 1998 with Martha Lane Fox and was CEO and took the company to profit and gross bookings of over $2bn. The company floated in March 2000 when the dot-com bubble was at its peak - the IPO was ... http://www.oxfordentrepreneurs.co.uk/archive/2009/05/05/change-maker-speaker-%e2%80%93-brent-hoberman-founder-of-lastminutecom-mydeco/ April 29, 2009 – 6pm Said Business School Register: http://oe.wufoo.com/forms/mike-mason/    Mike Mason, Managing Director – Innovation, founded Climate Care in 1997 pre-Kyoto.  Since then the company has become a market leader in the origination, development and retail of voluntary and compliance carbon offsets, pioneering methodologies and project standards in a number of ... http://www.oxfordentrepreneurs.co.uk/archive/2009/04/12/change-maker-speaker-%e2%80%93-mike-mason-founder-of-climate-care/ Thank you to everyone who came out to Idea Idol 2009 last Thursday! We gave away £10k in cash, £2k in legal support from Henmans llp and many other prizes in a gripping finale attended by over 350 Oxford Entrepreneurs - concluding both our Ideas2Market programme and our Idea Idol ... http://www.oxfordentrepreneurs.co.uk/archive/2009/03/08/idea-idol-2009-2/ March 5, 2009 - 6.00pm, Said Business School Click here to register Idea Idol is the flagship ideas competition run by Oxford Entrepreneurs where we give away up to £10,000 and many other prizes. On March 5, 2009 the 7 finalists are going head to head with a star-studded panel of judges ... http://www.oxfordentrepreneurs.co.uk/archive/2009/02/27/its-here-idea-idol-2009-grand-finale/ February 26, 2009 - 5.30pm Said Business School REGISTRATION FULL James Caan is CEO of private equity firm Hamilton Bradshaw and has been building and selling businesses since 1985. Having founded the Alexander Mann Group in 1985 and co-founded executive head-hunting firm Humana International with his partner Doug Bugie, 2001 Caan was ... http://www.oxfordentrepreneurs.co.uk/archive/2009/02/21/james-caan-ceo-of-hamilton-bradshaw-and-dragon/ February 16, 2009 - 6.30pm University of Oxford Careers Service, 56 Banbury Rd.Being able to sell effectively is an essential pre-requisite to being an entrepreneur. A successful business needs clients, partners, investors, and staff all of whom need to be successfully sold to. Sales is often a mis-understood and much ... http://www.oxfordentrepreneurs.co.uk/archive/2009/02/14/ideas2market-selling-skills-for-entrepreneurs/ February 12, 2009 - 6pm Said Business School, Click here to register. Julie Meyer has 20 years of investment and advisory experience, helping start-up businesses and industry standards to emerge and establish themselves. As Chief Executive of Ariadne Capital, she has overall general and financial management responsibility for the group which ... http://www.oxfordentrepreneurs.co.uk/archive/2009/02/06/keynote-speaker-julie-meyer-founder-ceo-of-ariadne-capital-founder-of-first-tuesday/