Entrepreneurship Workshop: Building Founding Teams

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Dr Chris Coleridge
Date 26/02/2025 at 17.30 - 26/02/2025 at 19.30 Where Gatsby Room (Chancellor's Centre)
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Energise your idea by learning how to collaborate effectively with your team members.

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Overview

This interactive workshop will explore how building a strong founding team is essential in entrepreneurship. The session will offer participants practical insights and strategies for making meaningful professional connections, and emphasising how a founding team can significantly impact entrepreneurial success.

 

Facilitator

The workshop will be led by Dr Chris Coleridge, Management Practice Associate Professor at Cambridge Judge Business School (CJBS) and Fellow of Wolfson College where he chairs the Entrepreneurship Hub. His research interests include collaborative innovation, top management teams in ventures, networks and innovation ecosystems. He was an entrepreneur in the 1990s, before becoming an academic in entrepreneurship and strategy after exiting his business, and enjoys engaging with the ‘practical’ side of entrepreneurship alongside his work at CJBS and Wolfson College.

 

Details

This event is open to all members of the University of Cambridge and is free to attend - please book your place.

 

Access

This event will take place in the Gatsby Room on the first floor of the Chancellor's Centre. It has step-free access with a lift and there is an accessible toilet located each floor of the building.

 

Entrepreneurship Hub

This event is organised by Wolfson's Entrepreneurship Hub, a global network of students, alumni, members, and Fellows, which explores and encourages the many facets of entrepreneurship. 

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