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Are you ready to dive into the world of start-up? Breathe your entrepreneurial dreams to life! Spark Award is a 9-week introduction to business start-up programme. Each week you will learn the foundational skills to best position you to begin your entrepreneurial journey.
Spencer Beckman - Beckman Automobiles brings sustainability, desirability and value to the electric vehicles market.
With our step-by-step programme and innovative online platform, you will have developed your idea into a scalable venture, and will walk away with a pitch deck and basic business plan.
The programme equips you with all the skills you need to kickstart your business, and at the end of the programme you will get the opportunity to pitch for £500 seed funding to make your ideas happen!
Our unique hybrid delivery is designed to fit around your studies, with a combination of webinars and online meetings, you will get to interact with experts, successful alumni, and other like-minded people on the same path as you. Our digital platform gives you a place to build and develop your ideas, receive direct feedback from the team and the opportunity to expand your network with others on the programme.
This is an incredible opportunity for anyone that wants to gain valuable mentoring, expert training and the funds to test and develop your idea in a low-risk way!
Interested? Register Your Interest for a place next semester
Want to find out more? Book a 1:1 with a member of the team.
In this first session we will dive deeper into your idea to really understand what it’s all about, what problems it’s solving and how it’s doing that.
Your customers are at the heart of your business, but do you know who they are? This session answers just that, identifying who your customers really are, why they want to buy from you and how you will market to them
A little competition is good, as long as you know who your competition is. In this session we will discuss the importance of competition, and how to position yourself to be competitive..
Understanding finances is a daunting part of setting up a business, but it doesn't need to be. In this session we will explore finances in a simple and direct way, to show you what your financial forecast looks like
Email us enterprise-support@brookes.ac.uk Phone us +44 (0)1865 484380 Visit us CLC 101 Headington Campus Oxford OX3 0BP