Furness Young Professionals Event: Starting a business

Posted on | October 28, 2009 | View Comments

I’m looking forward to speak to a crowd of young professionals in Cumbria at the Furness Young Professionals event on 30th October (Friday). FYP aims to encourage the entrepreneurial spirit of Furness.

The Talk

My talk will concentrate on:

1. JFDI (Just Doing it) Encouraging others to just get on with developing their business idea and not get bogged down by nitty gritty of starting a business.
2. London not centre of the univers: In essence not all businesses have to based in a densly populated centre, but actually businesses like social media can be done remotely.
3. Youth Driven Initiatives Several businesses nowadays are actually best executed by young talent. Think Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook.
4. High Growth Venture Worth thinking about high growth ventures like medical, computer related, telecommunication, bio-technology etc.

Other details (courtesy FYP)

Have you ever thought of starting your own business? Have you considered taking the leap with that great idea you’ve had? Raj Anand did.

Raj was a graduate in computer science and artificial intelligence when a chance meeting with a professor from Cranfield University gave him the vision he needed to take the leap into entrepreneurship.

Raj was right on the mark with his social networking software concept and hit the big time early when he raised angel investment to turn his dream into a reality. It wasn’t long before Raj was voted Business Week’s European Young Entrepreneur of the Year. But it can’t have been that easy… can it? Well we have the opportunity to ask Raj himself when he visits the Furness Young Professionals on Friday 30th October.

The event will take place at the Duke of Edinburgh in Barrow from 6.30pm, with a three course dinner served from 8pm followed by drinks in the bar.

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