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Entrepreneurship Springboard

Entrepreneurship Springboard. From PowerPoint to Reality Entrepreneur. The Mission. Assist students & recent alumni with launching new businesses Connect students & recent alumni with senior alumni in a productive way around the topic of entrepreneurship. What’s in it for you?.

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Entrepreneurship Springboard

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  1. Entrepreneurship Springboard From PowerPoint to Reality Entrepreneur

  2. The Mission • Assist students & recent alumni with launching new businesses • Connect students & recent alumni with senior alumni in a productive way around the topic of entrepreneurship

  3. What’s in it for you? Reality Check Concrete, hands-on advice Networking

  4. Who can participate? • Current part-time and full-time Vlerick MBA Students... • Recent MBA Alumni, graduated in the last 3 years... • ... who want to bring their business plan to a higher level and realize it afterwards

  5. The dynamics ...

  6. Entrepreneurs provide summaries of their business plans based on a questionnaire • Event Organizers match Entrepreneurs & Mentors • Mentors choose which plans they are interested in • Entrepreneurs are informed which mentors showed interest – they have 3 days to contact 3 of these mentors • Mentors review business plans with students “off line” and at their own pace (within a strict timeline) • Two rounds of feedback are foreseen • In-person meetings are strongly recommended • Review • All teams submit finalized plans to the panel of mentors • Mentors review the plans and select top five teams Stage 1: Mentoring Mechanics of the 1st Stage

  7. Five selected teams participate in the Benelux Venture Forum • Receive additional training alongside with other participants • Liaise with Europe-Level VCs during the event • An invitation to attend BVF will be sent out to the full contact list of the Vlerick Alumni entrepreneurship event • 10% discount on participation tickets will be available to all Vlerick Alumni members Mechanics of the 2nd Stage Stage 2: BVF

  8. The five teams take the learnings from the BVF into account • Concluding event • Presentation of the five teams to the assembled students and alumni, followed by a reception • Estimated 100 to 120 participants • Location – Chapel, Vlerick campus Gent Mechanics of the 3rd Stage Stage 3: Final Pitch

  9. Timeline

  10. Your next steps Download ENTREPRENEUR questionnaire form Fill it in – short, concrete, to the point Send it to organizers leo.exter@vlerickalumni.com

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