Dear All,

A quick newsletter to remind you that Miles Morland, probably the most entertaining entrepreneurial speaker you will see this year, hits the SBS tomorrow.  RSVP now for a free lunch.

Also the OE 100 is on Thursday, a couple of spaces might be available.  See below to get onto the waiting list.

Best,
Alasdair

Contents

1. Miles Morland comes to the Said Business School - Entrepreneurship and Investment in the Emerging World
2. Oxford Entrepreneurs Influential 100 Meal
3. What gives Fair Trade its right to operate? Organisational legitimacy and strategic management
4. Starting a Business (Business Boffins)
5. Global Student Entrepreneur Awards
6. Entrepreneurs – are they born or trained? And how can the UK grow more of them?
7. Odds and Ends

1. Miles Morland comes to the Said Business School - Entrepreneurship and Investment in the Emerging World

Tuesday 3 June from 12:25pm to 1:25pm
ESLT at the Said Business School
Free Lunch is Included!!!!

Miles Morland  founder of Blakeney Management, pioneered foreign investment in the markets of Africa and the Middle East. Blakeney is today thought to be the largest foreign portfolio investor in sub-Saharan Africa. Miles recently handed the firm over to his partners but remains non-executive Chairman.

He has since started Development Partners International, a new firm set up to make private equity investments in Africa with an emphasis on the post-conflict countries.

Miles is also the author of The Man Who Broke Out of The Bank and is an Oxford graduate.

He will speak on what makes an entrepreneur, offer some advice to those who aspire to go off on their own and finally discuss investing in the emerging world.

Be sure to RSVP right away to mwayshak@gmail.com.

2. Oxford Entrepreneurs Influential 100 Meal

Thursday 5th June (7th Week), Said Business School, 7pm for 7:30pm

We are bringing together the 100 most influential, active and inspiring people in the student entrepreneurship scene for the ultimate networking meal.

There may be a couple of spare places, email 100@oxfordentrepreneurs.co.uk to get onto the waiting list.  Any available places will be released on the morning of the event.

3. What gives Fair Trade its right to operate? Organisational legitimacy and strategic management

Oxford Fair Trade Research Group
Seminar Room A, Saïd Business School
Thursday, June 5, 12.30 – 2:00 pm

By Alex Nicholls, Lecturer in Social Entrepreneurship, Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, Saïd Business School

Seminars in this series are held on Thursdays, 12:30-2:00 pm during Trinity Term.

4. Starting a Business (Business Boffins)

Thu 5th Jun - 5:15 pm to 6:45 pm
Careers Service

Do you have what it takes to start your own business? Come along to find out at this session run by Prof Russell Smith, CEO of The Business Boffins. Russell has extensive experience in advising at the planning and launch stages and has many contacts in the high-tech and University sectors. His talk emphasises that the risks associated with a start-up can be minimised through careful planning and that being an entrepreneur is one of the most rewarding careers often overlooked by graduates.

5. Global Student Entrepreneur Awards

The total prize package for the 2008 Global Student Entrepreneur Awards is estimated at over $100,000 in cash and business products and services donated by Entrepreneurs’ Organization members.  Enter now!

http://www.gsea.org/nominate/

6. Entrepreneurs – are they born or trained? And how can the UK grow more of them?

Registration is from 5.00pm with presentations to start promptly at 5.30pm.
The Panel debate will be followed by a wine reception and networking until 7.30pm.
NESTA, 1 Plough Place, London, EC4A 1DE

Come and see Oxford Entrepreneurs Special Relations Officer, Rajeeb Dey, take part in a panel debate!

Over the last 20 years, entrepreneurship has emerged as a major focus of research interest among academics, policymakers and educators. While much has been learned about how entrepreneurs can be identified and nurtured, there are still differing views about to what extent an entrepreneurial approach is innate – and how much is shaped by circumstance.

The answers to these questions are important – entrepreneurs can deliver social and economic benefits for all of us. Yet without a detailed understanding of how entrepreneurs are formed, how can we ensure that the UK has a culture that supports entrepreneurs? Crucially, how can we be sure that we have the right educational environment to encourage and support the entrepreneurial efforts of our young people from the earliest age?

Join us on Thursday 12th June for a lively panel debate to launch Professor Elizabeth Chell’s The Entrepreneurial Personality: A Social Construction, a timely look at how our entrepreneurial potential can be catalysed or not by the cultural, economic and business environment around us. Elizabeth Chell will open the discussions by presenting findings from her research on entrepreneurs. John Bates will respond and will suggest an agenda for what the UK should do about it. They will be joined on the Panel by Rajeeb Dey, founder of the English Secondary Students Association and previous President of the Oxford University Entrepreneurs Club, and Alastair Wilson, Chief Executive of the School for Social Entrepreneurs. The event will be chaired by Richard Halkett, Executive Director of Policy & Research at NESTA.

http://entrepreneurialpersonality.eventbrite.com/

7. Odds and Ends

"Your twenties are always an apprenticeship, but you don't always know what for." - Jan Houtema

Paul Graham - Lies We Tell Kids
http://www.paulgraham.com/lies.html

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