Dear All,

This week gives you a unique opportunity to ask any questions you have about starting and running a company. Our expert panel covers a wide range of experiences from student entrepreneurs to venture capitalists, full details are below.

Also we have some hot new enternships for you, scroll down for your chance to take an enternship in a well funded startup in San Francisco!

See you on Tuesday,
Alasdair

Contents

1. Growing Your Start-up Panel Discussion
2. Get Your Startup Featured in the Sunday Telegraph by Uploading it to YouNoodle!
3. Queen's Entrepreneurs' International Business Plan Competition
4. Simon Climbs Really High Mountain for Charity
5. Hot Enternships - enternships.com
6. GroupSpaces is one of "the UK's 20 most promising Web companies"!
7. Odds and Ends

1. Growing Your Start-up Panel Discussion

Tuesday 13th May (4th Week), 7pm Said Business School

Take one founding team, inject an idea, sprinkle with money, and nurture with mentoring and inspiration. Is that how to grow your start-up? Learn from the experts in this panel discussion focusing on founding and successfully growing a start-up.

Followed by a FREE drinks and nibbles reception.

Confirmed on the panel:
Paul Fisher - VC at Advent Venture Capital - thecoffeeshopsofmayfair.com Alex Hoye - angel Investor - entrepreneur - co-founder of goindustry.com Sumon Sadhu - founder of Imperial Entrepreneurs, Y-Combinator veteran - CEO of Snaptalent snaptalent.com
James Uffindell - entrepreneur - founder of Bright London, Pure Potential and Oxbridge Applications David Langer - entrepreneur - CEO of Groupspaces.com - davidlanger.co.uk/category/groupspaces Martin Chilcott - serial entrepreneur - founder of Meltwater Ventures

SIGN UP FOR A PLACE
http://younoodle.com/events/growing_your_start_up_panel_discussion

2. Get Your Startup Featured in the Sunday Telegraph by Uploading it to YouNoodle!

The Sunday Telegraph has teamed up with younoodle.com, the social media site for start-ups, to throw a spotlight on some of the next generation of entrepreneurs emerging from Britain's universities.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/money/2008/05/11/cnsports111.xml

Every week The Sunday Telegraph will be featuring a UK university startup found on YouNoodle. To get yours featured ensure you add your profile to the Oxford Entrepreneurs YouNoodle group and post your startup to be in with a chance of being picked. For help promoting your startup you can always reach OE President Alasdair at president@oxfordentrepreneurs.co.uk.

Join Oxford Entrepreneurs YouNoodle community here: http://younoodle.com/register/oxford_entrepreneurs

Explore the OE startups here: http://younoodle.com/explore/startups/groups/oxford_entrepreneurs

3. Queen's Entrepreneurs' International Business Plan Competition

The Queen's Entrepreneurs' Competition (QEC) is an international business plan competition that allows undergraduate students from around the world to come together, present their innovative ideas and develop their entrepreneurial skills, with a chance to win over $25,000 in awards. The competition, which takes place annually at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, is entirely organized by undergraduate students of the Queen's School of Business.

The preliminary round of the competition begins in November where teams submit business plans which are judged by qualified business professionals. The top sixteen teams are then invited to participate in the final round of the competition during a weekend in January, where they will compete for the top prize of $15,000 CDN.

During the weekend, there will be a keynote speaker and competitors will also have a chance to network with the judges and other schools. Past QEC speakers have included Clive Beddoe, founder of WestJet Airlines, and Seaton McLean, founder of Alliance Atlantis.

The deadline for the business plan submission is November 1st, 2008. The final competition will be held in January 22nd-24th, 2009. For more information, students can visit www.theqec.com.

4. Simon Climbs Really High Mountain for Charity

Simon Bitcliffe, local entrepreneur and supporter of Oxford Entrepreneurs is going to climb the highest mountain in North America, Mt. McKinley in Alaska. You can follow his progress and give some money to help save the rainforests below.

http://charitymadness.blogspot.com/

5. Hot Enternships - enternships.com

<strong>YouNoodle - Various Positions</strong> YouNoodle, a well funded startup in Silicon Valley, are looking for bright sparks to fill various positions. YouNoodle helps people and groups that are interested in startups and innovation do what they do better. They provide business competition, event, networking and mailing list functionality for real-world groups that support startup communities.
http://younoodle.com/about

Internships - http://www.enternships.com/enternships/113 Web Developer - full time - http://www.enternships.com/enternships/114 Web Designer - full time - http://www.enternships.com/enternships/115 Sys Admins - full time - http://www.enternships.com/enternships/116

<strong>cmypitch.com - Sales role, full time, London</strong> cmypitch.com is a new online community targeted at entrepreneurs. Launching in May 2008, cmypitch.com is a cross between linkedin.com, Dragon's Den (bbc.co.uk/dragonsden.com), youtube.com and yell.com. This role lets you work in a startup and assist the sales team.
http://www.enternships.com/enternships/112

<strong>FreshIdeas Events</strong>
FreshIdeas Events Limited run conferences, seminars, networking events and other projects for entrepreneurs and corporate women in business. We have opportunities for individuals to work on these activities.
http://www.enternships.com/enternships/109

<strong>The Owl – Business Manage and Produce an Independent Student Journal</strong> The Owl Journal is Oxford university's only independent student publication dedicated to providing a platform for undergraduate and graduate articles and a forum for inter-disciplinary debate. We are currently recruiting for a new Managing Director as well as for sponsorship and publicity positions.
http://www.enternships.com/enternships/110

6. GroupSpaces is one of "the UK's 20 most promising Web companies"!

Last month GroupSpaces was selected to travel to Silicon Valley for Web Mission 2008 (http://webmission08.com/), a week-long government-backed event for the UK's 20 most promising Web companies. David and Andy, who started the company through Oxford Entrepreneurs Start-A-Company scheme in 2005, received very positive feedback on their plans from many of the Y Combinator companies and some of the top Venture Capitalists in the world who they were personally invited to meet on Sand Hill Road.

During the week they also received good news that Dave Ingram (IT Officer from Imperial Entrepreneurs) will be moving to Oxford in July to join them as their 4th full-time team member!

7. Odds and Ends

"Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for" Banksy

Ask YC archive. Load of useful useful startup discussion/advice. http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/startupswiki/Ask_YC_Archive

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