The Real Alchemist Startup Weekend is designed to motivate and enable individuals to transform their ideas into reality whether they have a technology, social or creative enterprise.
Shai Vyakarnam, CfEL Director, commented: "This inspiring weekend can be the catalyst to turn dreams into gold. It can help make you a million through the generation of a viable and meaningful enterprise or affect the lives of millions."
The Real Alchemist Startup weekend is open to students, graduates, academics, professionals, entrepreneurs and creative minds who want to spend the summer developing venture ideas, forming teams and getting ready to pitch to investors. It's for people looking to find out whether their idea is a viable business venture, how to communicate that idea to customers and investors; and build a team with the expertise and capabilities needed for success.
It's also for those who are looking to contribute their skills, commercial or technical, to enable a start-up to get off the ground. The aim is to team up people with ideas and those with business, marketing and technical skills to work together intensely over the weekend in order to develop ideas into real companies.
Alan Barrell, long-serving CfEL Entrepreneur in Residence, said, “I’m delighted to endorse this exciting opportunity for young entrepreneurs to fast-track their business ideas with expert advice and support. If you’ve got an idea or you’re just starting up, then I highly recommend you participate.”
Those ventures voted the best of the weekend will get spaces to join Accelerate Cambridge, the start-up "accelerator" established by Cambridge Judge Business School in May 2012. Accelerate Cambridge aims to help teams of entrepreneurs turn an idea into a business, to launch, and then to keep going. It will provide lucky winners with the chance to access a powerful group of Cambridge mentors and University alumni.
Tickets are now on sale for The Real Alchemist Startup weekend - Standard fee £75/ Students £50.
For more information and to book your place, please visit the Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning (CfEL) web site at http://www.cfel.jbs.cam.ac.uk/programmes/realalchemy/index.html, or email [email protected]
About the Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning (CfEL)
The Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning (CfEL), based at Cambridge Judge Business School, aims to spread the spirit of enterprise to both the University of Cambridge community and to wider national and international audiences through the creation and delivery of a range of educational activities that inspire and build skills in the practise of Entrepreneurship. One of CfEL's key teaching values is that the best people to teach entrepreneurs are entrepreneurs. This philosophy has led to the Centre collaborating with a network of over 300 experienced entrepreneurs, innovators and other practitioners to provide relevant, credible and practical training.
The Centre has developed an enviable track record in the field of entrepreneurship education with a number of flagship programmes designed to provide skills for students, graduates, researchers and aspiring entrepreneurs from different backgrounds and at different stages of the entrepreneurial journey. These programmes are Enterprise Tuesday, ETECH Projects, Ignite, Enterprisers and the Postgraduate Diploma in Entrepreneurship.
Tel: 01223 766900; Email: [email protected] ; Web: www.cfel.jbs.cam.ac.uk
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Media contact: Katharine Price, CfEL Marketing & Communications Manager; Tel: +44 (0)1223 766917; Email: [email protected]
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