Dates
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- 09 - 11 Mar 2023
- 20 - 22 Apr 2023
Start-Up Weekends – unlocking and supporting new business ideas at Cranfield
If you are a Cranfield student, researcher, alumnus/alumna or staff member with a business idea, we are here to help you!
Our Start-Up Weekends are the perfect opportunity to work with mentors and entrepreneurs to shape your ideas. Some of the topics covered across our weekends include:
- Who's Your Customer?
- Market Application and Commercial Advantages.
- Value Proposition.
- Business Models.
- Raising Capital.
Following each session, you will be given the chance to break into small groups and talk through your idea with an experienced entrepreneur. At the end of the weekend, you will get the opportunity to practice pitching your idea and will receive feedback on both your pitch and how to take your idea forward from this point.
Dates for your diary
- Thursday 09 – Saturday 11 March 2023
- Thursday 20 – Saturday 22 April 2023
What is expected from me?
As many of our mentors will be giving up their own time in order to participate and help you to help with your ideas, we just ask that you are committed and engaged throughout the programme.
What is the expected outcome?
If your idea and/or your team look viable we will provide you with further support through mentoring, advice (legal and financial) and other routes to markets etc.
If you have engaged in the mentoring process within the centre and we think that you have a viable idea, you may be invited to pitch for investment at Investor Day. This is not a guaranteed outcome and will only be offered to those individuals that are committed and show genuine potential.
Keynote speakers
March
To be announced
April
To be announced
Agenda
| Thursday |
Building 38 (CMRI) |
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| 15:30 – 16:00 | Registrations | |
| 16:00 – 16:30 | Welcome & Programme Introduction | |
| 16:30 – 17:15 | Keynote Inspiration | |
| 17:15 – 17:30 | Break | |
| 17:30 – 19:00 | Your Idea – What is it? | |
| 19:00 – 20:00 | Nibbles and networking |
| Friday | Building 38 (CMRI) | |
| 09:30 – 10:30 | Attributes and Advantages of your Idea | |
| 10:30 – 11:15 | Break out rooms | |
| 11:15 – 11:45 | Market Application and Commercial Advantages | |
| 11:45 – 12:30 | Break out rooms | |
| 12:30 – 13:15 | Lunch | |
| 13:15 – 13:45 | Value proposition - customer profiling | |
| 13:45 – 14:45 | Break out rooms | |
| 14:45 – 15:00 | Break | |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | Shared value and the role of IP | |
| 15:30 – 15:45 | Break out rooms | |
| 15:45 – 16:30 | Pitch the opportunity |
| Saturday | Building 38 (CMRI) |
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| 09:30 – 10:00 | Re-cap | |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Business Models | |
| 10:30 – 11:15 | Break out rooms | |
| 11:15 – 11:45 | Finance 101 | |
| 11:45 – 12:30 | Break out rooms | |
| 12:30 – 13:00 | Lunch | |
| 13:00 – 14:00 | Pitch practice | |
| 14:00 – 15:30 | Pitch for the panel | |
| 15.30 – 16.00 | Close |
