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Edinburgh Entrepreneurship Club |
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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Pitching winner Zoomatelo successfully expanding!
Zoomatelo.com (a social network facilitating carpooling) has been fairly quiet since winning the Abbey Bank Pitching competition late last year, but they have not been dormant! Zoomatelo just officially launched through the largest company in Africa, and over the course of February will be getting exposure to 15,000 employees through a £2000 internal marketing campaign at Standard Bank's headquarters in South Africa. If this is successful, they'll be rolling out to Standard Bank's 35,000 other employees across 30 African countries!
Once things have settled down in South Africa, they plan to enter the UK market with their innovative product. They attribute part of their success to the E-Club, Launch.ed and Informatics Ventures, which goes to show that with the University of Edinburgh's facilities you too could turn your prospects into products. These guys are sure to go far and it’ll be exciting to see where they wind up! -
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. Join the Edinburgh E-club on YouNoodle!
All E-club members have been invited to network with the 50 top international entrepreneurship groups, including those at Stanford University, MIT, Berkeley, Oxford, Cambridge, Imperial College London, Stockholm, Singapore, Seoul and IIT.
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