Archive for the ‘Entrepreneurship’ Category
November 9, 2009
The worldwide phenomena of start-up weekends has reached Barcelona. iWeekend is taking place in Barcelona on the weekend of the 20th until the 22nd of November 2009. This event was mentioned in the entrepreneurship aggregator I posted a few days ago but I would like to emphasize this particular event a little further:
Start-up weekends are events for entrepreneurs, who meet over an entire weekend, with the goal to have developed a business concept by the end of the weekend. This is similar to an un-conference or user generated conference that leverages the drive, motivation and creativity of the users. On Sunday night hopefully the result is a start-up with like-minded people.
This is definitely worthwhile experiencing and you should check it out here! Happy creations!
Source: iWeekend.org
Tags:Barcelona, entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, Event, start up weekend, start-up
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November 7, 2009
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Update: This article made it to the 6th most-read article in a few hours and today the blog has received the largest amount of visitors in one day, exceeding the record by 22% reation!
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After having written 99 articles and having had 4000 visitors (October 1050 alone) since March 2009 I was thinking that it might interest you to find out some statistics about the blog. The following are the 10 most read articles of my blog, which should give you an idea of the topics people are most interested in:
- About My ESADE MBA
- The Economist – FT MBA Ranking 2009
- Good luck for the first exam!
- Barcelona – Insider Tips
- My ESADE MBA: Statistics and insights
- Accomodation – ESADE Entrepreneurship
- Recommended Pre-MBA Readings
- MBA Career Portals
- Subjects & Seminars
- Pre-MBAT Soccer Match: ESADE vs. IESE
The following are the 10 most searched terms on the My ESADE MBA search engine:
- entrepreneur
- esade mba
- esade
- esade mba blog
- esade blog
- esade entrepreneurship club
- esade student blog
- my esade mba
- esade good at entrepreneurship?
- esade marketing career
I have received an increasing amount of personal emails, questions and enquiries about ESADE, the MBA and myself. A few issues keep popping up and I wanted to share my thoughts about some of these with you:
- Many people are enquiring about entrepreneurship and marketing, which highlights the fact that ESADE is still famous for these, which also reflected in the statistics.
- Yes, ESADE is focusing increasingly on Finance and Consulting
- Yes, the fact that ESADE is famous for producing entrepreneurs makes it complicated to score on the salary-related aspects of the MBA rankings because usually entrepreneurs don’t earn that much at the start-up phase.
- Barcelona plays an important role for people chosing ESADE
- Why did I chose ESADE over IESE, IE and LBS? I will dedicate an article about this soon. Bear with me
- What is the quality of the teaching, professors and course material?
- Who is writing this blog, why and whether I have a link to ESADE? I would like to refer to the page About MYESADEMBA and reinforce that I have NOT received a scholarship from ESADE for writing this blog and I am free what I post here. To(un)bias-ed ;)
I wanted to thank you all for your support, comments and readership! I hope that I keep helping you in answering some of the questions that you have been asking yourself about ESADE and the MBA. Please don’t hesitate to spread the word about the blog and happy reading :)
Tags:articles, blog, Entrepreneurship, ESADE, ie, IESE, LSE, MBA, MY ESADE MBA, ranking, rankings, search terms, statistics, tags
Posted in Admissions, Barcelona, Clubs, Courses & Subjects, Entrepreneurship, ESADE, MBA, MBA Preparation, Universities | 4 Comments »
November 5, 2009
The Barcelona Entrepreneurship City has launched its Entrepreneurial Event Aggregator. The following are the upcoming events for the entrepreneur scene of Barcelona in November 2009. See you there?
Host: Global Entrepreneurship Week
Topic: Entrepreneurship for everybody
Date: 16th-20th of November,
Location: Everywhere in Barcelona
More information here
Host: Gran Foc – The Founders Lounge
Topic: “Boost your business with Twitter”: learn how to get the most out of Twitter with tips on personal branding, value-based relationships, increasing your audience and important do’s and dont’s. Join the microblogging age with trainer & media specialist Tom Hayton.
Date: 17th of November, 20:00h
Location: Gran Foc, Roger de Lluria 28
Host: Barcelona Activa
Topic: Barcelona Networking Day: Una jornada de networking con todas las plataformas y redes que forman el espíritu emprendedor y de innovación de la ciudad Barcelona.
18’00-18’30 : Acreditaciones y registro.
18:30-19:00: Presentación del Networking Bazaar por parte de todas las redes.
19’00-20:30: Sesión plenaria con André Vanyi-Robin, fundador de Bestv, Adecq Digital, Conseguir financiación: Luis Martin Cabiedes, principal business angel de internet en España y otros ponentes a confirmar
20:30-21’30: Dinàmica de Networking multisectorial entre las distintas comunidades de emprendedores.
Date: 18th of November, 18:30 – 21:30h
Location: CCIB, Rambla Prim, 1-17 Barcelona 08019
Confirmation: here
Host: Bioagora
Topic: Un espacio de encuentro entre inversores y científicos-emprendedores
Date: 19th of November, 10:00h
Location: Hotel Hespera Tower, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat
Confirmation: http://www.bioagora.cat/
Host: iWeekend
Topic: Weekend es una experiencia pionera en España que reúne a profesionales y emprendedores con talentos diversos para seleccionar una idea, desarrollar un producto y lanzar una startup de base tecnológica ¡en sólo un fin de semana!
Date: 20th – 22nd of November
Location: TBC
Confirmation: here
The Facebook Group of the Barcelona Entrepreneurship City Meta Community has more information. Check it out and join here.
Tags:Barcelona Activa, Entrepreneurship, events, founders, founders lounge
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November 4, 2009
The ESADE NetImpact Club has brought the following event to my attention. The University of Washington is organising a competition called the “Global Social Entrepreneurship Competition“. This competition tries to accumulate business ideas how to”alleviate a problem(s) of poverty in developing economies around the world.“* To read more about this interesting Business Plan Competition read the instructions hereto below.
Source: University of Washington
GSEC Entry and Competition Criteria
GSEC business plans must clearly demonstrate the financial Return on Investment (ROI) and the Social Return on Investment (SROI), in addition to the social impact of the business idea. Please refer to the GSEC Submission Requirements and Resources for application and business plan criteria.
GSEC plans are judged on three criteria: (1) effect on the quality of life and poverty alleviation in the developing economies; (2) financial sustainability; (3) feasibility of implementation. To learn what former GSEC participants have proposed, visit the GSEC business plans section.
GSEC is open to students from any academic institution worldwide. Teams may be comprised of students from difference disciplines and institutions, and multi-disciplinary teams are highly encouraged. Both graduate and undergraduate students are eligible. Looking for team members? Become a fan of GSEC on Facebook and post on the Discussions page to recruit a team or team members.
Review the GSEC rules for full eligibility details.
How to Apply
GSEC applications will be accepted August 03-Novemeber 11, 2009. Before applying, please review the GSEC rules and GSEC Submission Requirements.
To apply, GSEC student teams must complete both of the following by 11/11/09:
1) Submit an executive summary of your team’s business plan via email to gsec@u.washington.edu. Executive summaries must adhere to the GSEC executive summary requirements, detailed in the GSEC Submission Requirements.
2) Complete the online application, available here.
Both the executive summary and the online registration must be received by November 11, 2009, 11:00 PM, Pacific Standard Time. Only one application per team.
To read more visit their website here.
Tags:competition, CSR, Entrepreneurship, netimpact
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October 23, 2009
The entrepreneurship club hosts the guest speaker Christopher Pommerening (blog, twitter) Founder and Managing Partner of Active Capital Partners S.L. today.
I will let him introduce himself:
“I started my professional career in Spain in 1998 co-founding AutoScout24 Spain as CEO and member of the Board of Directors. AutoScout24 is part of the Scout24 Group, Europe’s leading operator of virtual market places. I was appointed Managing Director of Scout24 Spain in 2001. While preparing the internationalisation (FriendScout24) of the Scout24 Group , I also created B24 Networks (Boot24.com), a Europe wide market place on the internet for the yachting sector.
In 2002 I decided to join my friend and partner Philipp Schroeder at our already established venture catalyst company VCMORE GmbH and devote myself full time to Venture Capital and Entrepreneurship by offering consulting and investment services to start-ups through our contact network in Europe and the US of consultants, business angels and industry specialists. Alongside the latter, in 2002, I co-founded EO Spain, the Spanish chapter of EO Entrepreneurs’ Organization, being one of the largest entrepreneur organisations in the world, and in the same year I co-founded Active Capital Partners.
In 2006 my fellow EO Members elected me to be the Ambassador for EO Europe, in order to foster Entrepreneurship in Europe and grow the organisation in 10 different countries.
In 2007 I created the terminology for Venturepreneurship and Venturepreneurs and together with my partners we created the concept for the Venturepreneurs’ Organisation.
In 2008 I initiated the Global Entrepreneurs Week in Spain and I founded the Barcelona Entrepreneurship City Community, in order to promote Barcelona to become one of the leading Hubs for entrepreneurship in Europe.
Currently I’m a member of the Board of Directors of Vinus & Brindis , Polymita Technologies, BuyVIP and Non Executive Co-Founder and Advisor of Linqia.”
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The details of the event are:
Date and time – Friday 23 October 2009 from 1.00 pm to 2.00 p.m
Venue – room A012
Source: Xing
Tags:autoscout24, buyvip, entrepreneur, Linqia, polymita technologies, pommerening, scout24, VC, vinus & brindis
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July 23, 2009
A message from the Entrepreneurship Club:
Dear Members,
We have received an invitation from the Singapore Management University for their event – “Asia Investment Banking Conference 2009“, a conference co-organized by the Singapore Management University (SMU) and the London School of Economics (LSE).
The AIBC, where its main focus would be on investment banking and the Asian Market, will be held in Singapore at the SMU Campus on the 23rd and 24th of September 2009. So far, they have invited senior bankers from major financial institutions such as UBS, Goldman Sachs, Normura, the Blackstone Group, Temasek Holdings, Lazard, JPMorgan, Merrill Lynch, Credit Suisse, Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank, The Carlyle Group, Linklaters, Clifford Chance, PwC, Ernst and Young, Oaktree Capital, Bain Capital and McKinsey and Co.
Tags:Asia Investment Banking Conference 2009, Bain Capital. McKinsey and Co., Clifford Chance, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Entrepreneurship Club, Ernst and Young, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, Lazard, Linklaters, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, Normura, Oaktree Capital, PwC, Singapore Management University, Temasek Holdings, the Blackstone Group, The Carlyle Group, UBS
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July 7, 2009
The “Entrepreneurship Club” invites the ESADE MBA students to attend the “Business Plan class” today, 7th July 2009, 16:00 -19:00 hrs. The class will be taken by Professor Jordi Vinaixa and provides an in-depth analysis of how to write a Business Plan. This class will be very interesting for those people joining the competition “The Good Entrepreneur” of CNBC, which I have mentioned earlier.
Tags:businses plan, cnbc, Entrepreneurship, MBA, the good entrepreneur, vinaixa
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June 12, 2009
There are numerous student clubs under the roof of MBASA (ESADE student association) such as the consulting club, marketing club, entrepreneurship club, net impact chapter, renewable energy club etc. however one was missing: Operations Club!
At first we were considering starting a Supply Chain Management Club (SCM) however we quickly realised that it was too specific and our keen interest exceeded SCM. The idea of creating the “Operations Club” was born. We thought it imperative to start this club particulary when taking into consideration that ESADE offers a particular Master of Operations and ESADE ranks 15 globally in Operations Management education.
However we have been experiencing a lot of difficulties starting this club and the bureaucracy of ESADE is showing its ugly side. Not only has the application process to start this club been extremely slow and tedious but no we are even faced with almost unreasonable requirements that we need to fulfill to start this club.
Now we need your support so this initiative can take off and please contact us through LinkedIN if you have an interest in Operations Management and want to join the club (in order to get it started :). This is real intrapreneurship!
The official LinkedIN Group is here.
Tags:Clubs, Entrepreneurship, ESADE, linkedin, mbasa, operations, scm, startup
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June 4, 2009
A message from the president of the Entrepreneurship Club about the meeting with CNBC tomorrow.
Dear Members,
We are pleased to invite you to attend Q&A session with CNBC on 5th June,12:30 PM.
CNBC team will be at ESADE to promote their competition “Good Entrepreneur” and to know more about Entrepreneurship at our school.
Please visit the website to know more about their event “www.goodentrepreneur.com“.
Venue: 0014
Time : 12:30 PM
Date : 5th June
Dress Code : Formals Required ( Not necessarily suit and tie)
Thanks and Regards,
Entrepreneurship Club – “Building Networks”
Tags:club, cnbc, Entrepreneurship, networking, presentation
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April 20, 2009
A former ESADE student turned entrepreneur and offers a special relocation service for incoming students. Check it out and make use of this great opportunity to benefit from ESADE entrepreneurship.
Hola OneYear MBA Class of 2010! Bienvenidos a ESADE!
I have just graduated with the ESADE MBA Class of 2009. Recently, I designed a customised relocation package for incoming Masters students, in partnership with BornLiving, a reputable Real Estate agency here in Barcelona. We will be offering apartments in ideal locations with customised/flexible leases for MBAs, and great discounts including a large discount on scooters if you decide to relocate with us. The agency fee is 1 months rent, which is the lowest rate on the market here.
I will be managing this process from end to end, so I promise you a high level of service, good guidance and advice, and a property that will make your lifestyle more enjoyable in Barcelona.
More info at: http://www.bornliving.com/services/graduate/
Or contact me at: graduate@bornliving.com
Facebook: BornLiving Barcelona
I hope to hear from you in the future or perhaps we will cross paths in ESADE soon :)))
Saludos,
Mick
Tags:Accomodation, alumni, Barcelona, Entrepreneurship
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March 5, 2009
During the ESADE OpenDay at the end of January 2009 it became apparent that there is a large shift in future employment trends. What used be the ladder to the Management Consultancy, the MBA apparently has evolved to become the breeding ground for start-ups. The Financial Crisis most probably has had its fair impact on that trend, shifting the student’s interest from Finance to Business, which is a very positive side-effect from the crisis.
Some of the applicants have even mentioned that they are preparing to set-up their business after the MBA, which is a good sign and speaks for ESADE. Apparently there is sufficient demand and hopefully enough space for these ambitions. There is also a Facebook group called ESADE Entrepreneurship Club,with further links to another website, that provides a platform for entrepreneurs to meet. The group is active and there are several posts with business ideas or concrete projects being realised. Check it out.
In my opinion ESADE should keep that focus on entrepreneurship and strengthen their start-up incubator. I am looking forward to throwing myself in the pool of ESADE entrepreneurship.
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