Cambridge University Entrepreneurs' 1On1 (£5k Business Training Event)

CUE's Business Creation competition has entered its £5K phase!

* To register for BUSINESS SURGERIES, please go to http://cue5ksurgeries.eventbrite.com/ for a separate registration page.

To aid your effort CUE will be hosting its £5K Training event - Entrepreneurs' 1on1 on 6 February 2010. The day will include 1 On 1 networking with fellow entrepreneurs from Cambridge and other Universities and the following workshops:

·  Pitching workshop

·  Strategy & Routes to Market workshop

·  Finance workshop

Food and beverages will be served.

For the £5K phase, contestants are asked to submit an extended Executive Summary not exceeding 3500 words.  New entries are welcome! It is not required to have been an entrant to the previous phases of the competition to enter the £5K phase. The submission deadline for the £5K phase of the competition is 19 February 2010.

Programme for the Day:

10:00 -11:30 Pitching workshop by Andrea Cockerton

11:30 - 12:25 Strategy & Routes to Market by Justin Hayward and Nicholas Coutts of Cambridge Investment Research

    11:30 - 11:45 Justin Hayward: Strategy
    11:45 - 12:05 Nick Coutts: Routes to market

12:25 - 13:25 Lunch

13:25 - 14:30 Finance by Peter Hiscocks

14:30 - 15:00 Break

15:00 - 16:30 Surgeries & Networking

17:00 Event Ends

Profile of Speakers:

Andrea Cockerton: Founder of Mudhut Communications; communications expert with significant experience in the entrepreneurial and investment communities.

Justin Hayward: Owner of Cambridge Investment Research. Specialties include strategic planning, and helping technology companies to achieve their business goals through researched analysis and client interaction.

Nicholas Coutts: Global routes to market expert. Former Vice President, Global Distribution Channel Strategy of IBM.

Peter Hiscocks: Founder and Director of Finance Tree. Formerly Director of Cambridge Enterprise.