Entrepreneur First: Fab graduate scheme

Posted by president on October 24, 2011 under Jobs | Be the First to Comment

Dream of owning your own business? Like the idea of being independent, of being in charge and of creating your own great product? Or simply want to do something original when you graduate, rather than just falling straight into a corporate career?

Entrepreneur First is a brand new route into entrepreneurship for graduates, backed by some of the UK’s leading entrepreneurs, student groups and major employers. The programme helps you start up by offering:

• Mentorship: whether your interest be in web technology, hardware or something completely different, we’ll pair you with successful entrepreneurs with expertise in your area
• Training: developed with entrepreneurs, our curriculum covers everything they wished they’d known when they started out
• Networking: we’ll help you network with leading entrepreneurs, investors and corporate business leaders through our extensive links to the London enterprise ecosystem
• Access to funding: marked out as among the UK’s brightest entrepreneurial talent, you’ll be introduced to a network of supporting angel investors and VCs 
• In-kind support including free tech, legal and marketing advice, software and other benefits

Entrepreneur First is proudly sponsored by McKinsey & Company, Microsoft, Tesco, BNP Paribas, BT, Cisco, Qualcomm, The Civil Service Fast Stream, L’Oreal, Shell, City&Law, Silicon Valley Bank and Enternships.

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