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The Edinburgh Entrepreneurship Club at the University of Edinburgh Business School (UEBS) is a consortium of postgraduate Edinburgh students, alumni, researchers, faculty and staff, and colleagues from the wider community who share a common goal of fostering the entrepreneurial spirit.
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Membership is free and provides you with access to member profiles, the club's discussion board and it ensures that you receive regular emails, including the club regular e-newsletter, which keep you up to date with the activities of the club. Non-members are welcome to all our events, which can be viewed using the link on the main menu.
Entrepreneurs in Residence - Book a Session
The Entrepreneurship Club is delighted to announce the appointment of George Mackintosh as the club’s second Entrepreneur In Residence. George is a serial entrepreneur with much practical advice to offer about building and selling businesses. He joins Professor Gavin Don, the Club’s first Entrepreneur in Residence. Gavin is a visiting professor at the Business School and founder partner of corporate finance boutique Equitas.
Latest news & events
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This year’s Grant Management Business Plan Competition winner
Michael Fielding, who is on the part time MBA programme, won this year's Grant Management Business Plan competition, with a first prize of £3000 for his business plan called read4Sure. read4sure will provide digital communications services aimed initially at the discerning legal and health sectors, whose needs for fast, convenient yet reliable and secure messaging are not being met.
On receiving the prize Michael commented "I'm absolutely thrilled to win this, and it couldn't have come at a better time. The prize money will be used to fund a key piece of development and support a pilot study with a potential customer. The competition was hugely valuable as it was the first chance to put the business in front of a truly critical audience - and it seems to have come up trumps. -
Abbey Santander Pitching Competition
Congratulations go out to Abbey Santander Pitching Competition winner Jonathan Millin of Zoomatelo who was awarded £1,000 for his carpooling website business idea! The pitching event was a great success and the audience learned about fellow club members businesses and the "Art of the Pitch". The pitching finalists included gifts of Vanity Theorems by Flaminia Cavallo, an RFID Personal Tracking System by David Luger, a sign translation app called SiReA by Carlos Isoard, and Interpersonal Map: A People's Relationship Network System Based On the Web by Jianming (Jeremy) Xi. Congratulations to all of the participants! The next Abbey Santander Pitching Competition will be on March 1, 2010. If you are interested in pitching, please email entrepreneurship@ed.ac.uk
And here is a quick update from past Abbey pitching competition winner Richard Burton of Hoodeasy:
At hoodeasy.com, our goal has always been to make it as easy as possible for groups of students to get kitted up in some nice customised clothing. Today we've released a web app that makes that process really, really simple. Basically we replace the cash, cheques and scruffy order forms that are associated with a bulk order of custom gear within a society with a slick online ordering system called hoodeasy shops. Organisers in charge of a group can set up a shop page for the leavers hoodies or custom hoodies, get everyone to order them online, and then they arrive a couple of weeks later.
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