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Careers and Enterprise

Acquire an entrepreneurial mindset

For aspiring entrepreneurs, acquiring entrepreneurial experience provides you with the skills and the mind set needed to test and launch your idea.

What does it mean to acquire experience?

To find out more about the Acquire stage, take a look at our Acquire Experience page.

How can I acquire entrepreneurial experience effectively?

We have strongly recommended below the services which focus primarily on helping you acquire experience. The other services listed as ‘take a look’ and ‘might be useful’ may help you explore your options but are geared more towards other stages of the career journey.

✔✔✔ - Strongly recommend

✔✔ - Take a look

✔ - Might be useful

Services for acquiring entrepreneurial experience

QHack

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A bootcamp designed to teach you how to develop a business or social enterprise in just three days. ✔✔✔

QIncubator

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QIncubator is a good testing ground for an enterprise project at idea stage. ✔✔✔

QResearcher Enterprise

A programme specifically for PhDs students to provide them with entrepreneurial skills. ✔✔✔

Try It Award

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Apply for up to £500 of funding for if you have an idea for a social or commercial enterprise. ✔✔✔

Launch It Award

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Win up to £3,000 to launch your business or social enterprise idea. ✔✔✔

Start-up Visa

Find out more about the start-up visa application process and how to succeed. ✔✔✔

Enactus Society

Use entrepreneurial action to reach the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals through projects you develop yourselves. ✔✔✔

GradVenture

Dragon's Den style competition with coaching on how to present your ideas to investors. ✔✔

Start-up Visa workshops

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A series of workshops to get you ready to submit a quality start-up visa application. ✔✔

QMentoring Enterprise

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Receive enterprise support from a professional mentor. ✔✔

Venture Crawl

An initiative between 17 UK universities to explore the entrepreneurial highlights of London by Routemaster buses. ✔✔

GEW Events

Global Entrepreneurship is a collection of events, activities and competitions each November. ✔✔

Appointments

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Discuss your ideas or plans with an Enterprise advisor during a one-to-one appointment. ✔✔