Jordan Milne, an entrepreneur and graduate of the Advanced Diploma in Entrepreneurship* managed by Cambridge Judge Business School’s Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning (CfEL), has co-written a best-selling book on entrepreneurship that debuted at #3 on Amazon's Top Hot New Releases and is to launch in the UK on 2nd May. He and co-author, Martin Bjergegaard, set out to question the perception that those wishing to build hugely successful businesses and make a fortune have to pay a heavy price in terms of extensive working hours and loss of personal, family life.
These two passionate entrepreneurs went on a global search for a certain type of role model, i.e. those individuals who have managed to start and grow businesses without compromising their own lives. The book, ‘Winning Without Losing’ is the result of talking to a range of extremely successful, yet balanced entrepreneurs and business leaders.
The role models interviewed include some of the world’s most innovative entrepreneurs and thought leaders, such as Chad Troutwine, CEO of leading global test preparation company Veritas Prep; Derek Sivers, founder of CD Baby; Markus Frind, CEO of PlentyofFish.com, Caterina Fake, co-founder of Flick’r and Hunch.com, David Cohen, co-founder of TechStars, Sophie Vandebroek, CTO of Xerox…
The book offers strategies and tactics to improve efficiency and release time and energy to enjoy all the things life offers outside work. The lessons are equally applicable to those outside of business - anyone who is looking for a little more balance in their lives.
Dr Shailendra Vyakarnam, director of the Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning (CfEL) at Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, said: “Every entrepreneur should read this book as an antidote to the mythologies of being a successful entrepreneur.”
Get a taster of the book via the CfEL blog written by Jordan Milne. Click here to read ‘The most important question to ask yourself before making a big decision.’
The authors will be in the UK on 30 April and 1 May 2013. Join them at the UK launch event on 1st of May at the Innovation Warehouse in London. Tickets are free to register: http://winningwithoutlosing.eventbrite.co.uk/#
‘Winning without Losing: strategies for succeeding in business while living a happy and balanced life’ will be published by Profile books on 2 May 2013, price £12.99, paperback, ISBN 9781781251508, e-book 9781782830061. The authors will be in the UK for publication and are available for interview. For more information, please contact Ruth Killick on 0207 841 6307 / [email protected] / 07880703741.
Advanced copies are available on Amazon.co.uk now. Click here to find a copy of “Winning without Losing: strategies for succeeding in business while living a happy and balanced life”
* The Advanced Diploma in Entrepreneurship programme, jointly created by Cambridge Judge Business School’s Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning (CfEL) in conjunction with Professional Studies at the Institute of Continuing Education, University of Cambridge, ran successfully during 2009 and 2010. The Postgraduate Diploma in Entrepreneurship programme offered by Cambridge Judge Business School started in 2011.
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Jordan Milne is an Entrepreneur in Residence at Rainmaking and the Co-Founder and VP of Business Development at Zatista.com, a leading online original art marketplace. Previously Jordan was a contributing editor at NYC-based financial magazine AiCIO, for which he interviewed heads of multi-billion dollar Pension and Sovereign Wealth Funds. He is a member of The Sandbox Network, which is ‘the foremost global community of extraordinary young achievers below 30’, and he received an Advanced Diploma in Entrepreneurship accredited by the University of Cambridge in 2011.
Martin Bjergegaard worked for McKinsey & Co before becoming one of the co-founders of Rainmaking. Along with his co-founders he built a portfolio of 8 startups with a total of 50 million dollars in annual revenue, 100 employees, and offices in London, Copenhagen and Berlin.
About the Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning (CfEL) www.cfel.jbs.cam.ac.uk
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.
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