Liverpool joins global start up network
Liverpoool is to join a global network of start up champions from Canada to Kazakhstan this March when it holds a ‘business hothouse’ as the inaugural event of the Global Entrepreneurship Congress.
Startup Liverpool will be a 52-hour incubator for aspiring entrepreneurs to test their ideas and see them born as businesses.
Taking place in the Atrium of the Capital building, Old Hall Street from 6pm, March 9 to 10pm, March 11, entrepreneurs and aspiring entrepreneurs can find out if their business ideas are viable.
Beginning with open mic pitches on Friday attendees bring their best ideas and inspire others to join their team.
Over Saturday and Sunday teams focus on business model development, validating their ideas with potential customers, practicing LEAN startup methodologies and building a prototype.
On Sunday evening teams present their businesses, demonstrate their prototypes and receive valuable feedback from a panel of experts.
The event is sponsored by Brabners Chaffe Street solicitors, PH Creative, WhyNotChange and Stage Tex and facilitated by multi-award winning enterprise expert Melanie Bryan OBE of WhyNotChange.
Jeanette Kehoe-Perkinson, chief executive of Just For People Ltd and Liverpool Vision board member and Mike Southon, The Beermat Entrepreneur and Financial Times enterprise columnist will be joined by a range of leading business advisors from across the city to help guide participants to the finish line.
Melanie Bryan said: “This is a great opportunity for people from every walk of life to roll their sleeves up, jump in, unleash their ideas and work together to see how what potential they have to positively change their lives, their communities and city.
“These are intense but fun sessions during which people get to turn the seed of an idea into a real live business - hopefully with the potential to become a mighty oak.
“Everybody who attends will leave with something whether it be a business partner, a potential investor, new skills, greater confidence, fantastic contacts, or a brand new business.”
According to research from the Kauffman Foundation which powers Startup Weekends and runs the GEC, more than 36 per cent of Startup Weekend startups are still going strong after three months and approximately 80 per cent of participants plan on continuing working with their team or startup after the weekend.
Tickets to Startup Weekend cost just £75 which includes entrance to the event across the whole weekend, support from our expert mentors and five meals.
Max Steinberg, chief executive of Liverpool Vision, said: “The whole theme of the GEC in Liverpool is unleashing the will to win. Many of the participants during the week of the GEC are people who had an idea, took advice, developed it and changed their lives and the lives of others, and have won in business.
“Every business journey starts with an ambitious first step and every exciting enterprise is a start up that wants to get better. Startup Liverpool helps people dare to make that first step and we are indebted to those business leaders in Liverpool who are giving up their time and are willing to share their experience to help others make their lives extraordinary.
“Startup Liverpool also reflects Liverpool Vision’s new ‘Start To Grow’ enterprise programme which uses a similar model of targeted business development and specialised mentoring, which we feel will be more effective in meeting the needs of business.
“I’m looking forward to hearing about the businesses that are created from this event because they will be an inspiration to others to follow.”
To book your place, go to www.startupliverpool.org
For further information on the Global Entrepreneurship Congress and the Festival of Entrepreneurship visit www.gec2012.com
For further information please contact Jonathan Caswell at Liverpool Vision on 0151 600 2946 or jcaswell@liverpoolvision.co.uk
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