Top tips for success with your new business venture
Start Date: 11 Apr 2019
Start Time: 6:00 PM
End Time: 9:00 PM
Duration: 3 hours
Capacity: 45
Venue: University of Law, Bloomsbury Campus 14 Store St , London, WC1E 7DE › View map
Member price: £12.00
Non-member price: £15.00
Jerry Allen, Director for Entrepreneurship at UCL, will share with the audience his 5 top tips on how NOT to run a startup. In his light hearted yet thought provoking talk he will dispel some popular myths about staring up in business and draw on his own experience of success and failure.
This session will be of interest to anyone considering starting a business or a consultancy now or in the future.
Speakers
Jerry Allen
With 25 years in research, 7 start-ups, I am 'a bit of a 'maverick' spanning the academic and commercial worlds, having discovered the hard way some of the pitfalls to avoid with many tough lessons learned.
Stemming from our Incubation Centre BaseKX, I am privileged to lead a specialist team who can and do, help create, develop and grow value creation enterprises.
As a member of the UCL Innovation & Enterprise Senior Leadership team, I lead the extra-curricular entrepreneurship programmes across our community of 52,000 staff, students and researchers.
Previously I represented the UK Government Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) as a UK member for European Interreg 2 Seas (England, France, Belgium and Netherlands) and Channel (France Channel England) Programmes, having created over €6m European Projects focusing on innovation and enterprise across multiple European member states.
As a Director of Enterprise Educators UK, I lead their Global Growth strategy.
In London. I act for the London Mayor as Entrepreneur Trainer and Advisor for Entrepreneurship for all the 39 London Universities.
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Questions about this event should be addressed to CMI Events at cmievents@managers.org.uk or by telephone on 01536 207495.