WES Workshop: Building Founding Teams

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Dr Chris Coleridge
Date 10/11/2025 at 17.30 - 10/11/2025 at 19.30 Where Gatsby Room (Chancellor's Centre) & Zoom

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 is a hybrid event which is open to all members of the University of Cambridge and is free to attend. Please book your place using the form below.

Online attendees will be emailed a link to access the event.

 

 

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.

 

Contact

If you have any questions, please contact our events team - events@wolfson.cam.ac.uk

 

Wolfson Entrepreneurship Workshop Series

A series of inspiring and engaging workshops covering topics such as Testing Your Idea, IP Law and Building Founding .

The workshops aim to demystify entrepreneurship – supporting both those who are curious and would like to explore the processes involved and those who are already active entrepreneurs.

During the workshops you will have the opportunity to connect with others and gain practical insights of the different stages of entrepreneurship.