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We are delighted to announce that the Enternships.com Launch “After-party” is also the official after-party for the prolific “#140 conf” taking place at the O2 Indigo in London on 17th November. Organised by the fantastic Jeff Pulver, the conference features speakers such Stephen Fry ; author Andrew Keen and other leading figures from business, media and civil society.
If you have a ticket to the #140 conference look out for a message from Jeff with the link & promo code for your free ticket to the after-party. 150 free places are available on a first-come-first-served basis so get your ticket fast!
We are also delighted to offer all pre-registered Enternships launch & after-party delegates 50% off the official ticket price to the 140 Character Conference – an email with the promo code will be sent directly to you. Please be sure to register before November 14th.
Here is some more background to the conference:
At #140conf, Jeff explores what he calls “The State of NOW” which is his take on the emerging real-time Internet and the systemic changes which the worldwide adoption of twitter is having on society.
At the 140 Characters Conference, Jeff looks at twitter as a platform and as a language. The focus is on the impact of these emerging real-time social communication platforms and the effects on various elements of society around the world. In London you will hear from people involved in the media, Internet and Entertainment industries as well as from people who are making a difference with this emerging platform. He believes the change we are experiencing is deep rooted and in the years ahead, billions of dollars of opportunity will be there for the first movers in this emerging industry.
To learn more about the event, please visit: http://london.140conf.com
The schedule can be seen at http://london.140conf.com/schedule
See you on the 17th!
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Cuando buscamos ejemplos para definir que significa ser Emprendedor, el caso de Henry Ford es de los que mas se aplica, y más aún si hablamos de Emprendedores Exitosos. Fue el inventor de una nueva forma de producir para la época, combinaba cadenas de montaje, maquinaria especializada, altos salarios y un número elevado de trabajadores, para lograr un producto de bajo precio. Ford era hijo de pobres granjeros de EE.UU. quienes decidieron que después de terminar los estudios primarios, lo mejor para él era trabajar en la granja familiar. Ya desde chico, Ford manifestó su afición por la mecánica y, mientras cumplía con sus labores en la granja, se pasaba gran parte de la noche en un taller que había improvisado. “No tuve más juguetes que mis herramientas, y fue con ellas con lo que jugué toda mi vida.” Su padre deseaba que continúe en la administración de la granja familiar, cosa que no estaba en sus planes. Y así fue que a los 16 años, se fue de su casa, con intención de trabajar como mecánico. Enseguida ingresó en un pequeño taller, en menos de un año, aprendió todo lo necesario y creyó que la mecánica ya no tenía secretos para él. Por eso decide renunciar y volver a la granja. Allí, pasó la mayor parte de su tiempo en el taller que había montado en su adolescencia. “Como ya no estaba ocupado cortando leña, trabajaba en mis motores de explosión, estudiando su índole y funcionamiento. Leía todos los trabajos relativos a ese tema que lograba conseguir, pero fue de la práctica de donde extraje mis mejores conclusiones.” El espíritu emprendedor y apasionado de Ford no le permitía desviarse de sus sueños, que lo llevaban mucho más allá de la vida rural en la cual estaba inmerso. Por esa razón, cuando recibió la propuesta de unirse como ingeniero mecánico en una compañía, no lo pensó mucho, tomó sus cosas y dejó la granja por segunda y última vez. Alquiló una casa donde su nuevo taller ocupaba casi todo el espacio. Por las noches, luego de cumplir su tarea en la compañía, trabajaba hasta altas horas en su motor de nafta. “Un trabajo que a uno le interesa jamás es duro y yo no dudo nunca de su éxito”, palabras que marcan una de las cualidades de este gran emprendedor, su inquebrantable perseverancia. A los 29 años, todos sus esfuerzos se canalizaron en su primer automóvil a nafta. Recorrió más de 1.600 kilómetros y sometió al vehículo a todo tipo de pruebas. Para luego vender el “cacharro” por doscientos dólares. Este fue su primer éxito, aunque quería ir mucho más lejos. “Mi intención no era en absoluto establecerme como constructor sobre una base tan mediocre. Yo soñaba con la gran producción; pero para eso me hacía falta una máquina superior a esa. Si uno se apura no consigue nada bueno.” En la compañía que trabajaba le ofrecieron un cargo directivo muy importante, y una muy buena remuneración. Pero había una condición, él tendría que renunciar a todos sus proyectos y dedicarse por entero a los planes de la compañía. Ford no aceptó el cargo, porque eso significaba abandonar para siempre sus sueños, cosa que no estaba dispuesto a hacer. “Presenté mi renuncia, decidido a no volver a acepta jamás un puesto subalterno”. Ahora sí, Henry Ford estaba cerca de concretar su sueño, la producción en masa de automóviles como nunca antes se había hecho. “Poca gente osa lanzarse a negocios, porque en el fondo de sí mismos se dicen: ¿por qué lanzar tal producto al mercado, si ya hay alguien que lo hace? Yo, en cambio, me he dicho siempre: ¿por qué no hacerlo mejor? Y eso es lo que hice.” “Yo me niego a reconocer la existencia de imposibilidades. No conozco a nadie que sepa tanto sobre un tema para decir que esto o aquello no es posible” “Todo es posible. La fe es la sustancia de aquello que esperamos, la garantía de que podemos realizarlo”.
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We are excited to announce that today we’re releasing tickets for our Launch & Afterparty!
Join us in celebrating the launch of Enternships.com during Global Entrepreneurship Week in style with the company of 900 entrepreneurs / SME’s / investors / advisors / press / entrepreneurial students and graduates for a night of mingling with mojitos, speed networking, live entertainment (magicians, a cuban band, cocktail mixology lessons, Salsa lessons, Top DJs + more…) all until the early hours of the morning. You’ll even leave with your very own Enternships goody bag!
Tickets are available via our Eventbrite page and you can get promotion codes via our great partners and supporters so look out for invitations in your inbox / via Twitter or join our Facebook group for exclusive promotion codes.
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This week has been an epic week. On Tuesday evening I was honoured to receive the 02 X Young Entrepreneur of the Year Awards – a prestigious award recognising “the new generation of young entrepreneurs who are making an impact in today’s challenging economic climate.”
This however wasn’t just a personal achievement it was an achievement for the whole team and all our friends, family, supporters and users. We were overwhelmed by the level of support we were shown during the public voting and the subsequent messages received via email, Facebook and Twitter.
You can check out a video from the Awards ceremony here.
What was personally pretty moving for me was reading a blog by Nick Smith – a tremendous evangelist for Enternships and a real inspiration for all other students/grads/enterns. He has undertaken 3 enternships through us and explains why he “owes so much to Enternships.com”
It’s stories like these which remind us at Enternships why we’re doing what we’re doing, because as you all know – running your own start-up is pretty hard …so we love it when we hear feedback and stories like this. Please do reach out to us and tell us about your experiences.
We’re in the midst of planning our official launch party during Global Entrepreneurship Week which will take place on Tuesday 17th November so pencil it in your diaries and look out for an invite!
Thanks once again for all your support guys – we really appreciate it!
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Enternships is pleased to announce the launch of NacueVentures.com – a new initiative from Enternships partner organisation NACUE. Here is their press release:
Dragons’ Den meets YouTube video pitching website set to connect investors with UK universities’ entrepreneurial talent. Today sees the launch of an exciting new website, nacueventures.com, the first UK website to specifically connect university enterprise with investors. It comes as university graduates face the toughest jobs market imaginable.
Created by the National Consortium of University Entrepreneurs (NACUE) and cmypitch.com, nacueventures.com enables university-based entrepreneurs to upload a video pitch for funding supported by summary business plan details. A network of investors registered on the site are then permitted to review pitches and inform their investment decisions. Initial contact is managed via the site, before both parties meet in person to explore opportunities further or to close a deal.
NACUE is the creation of Victoria Lennox, former President of Oxford Entrepreneurs, Oxford University’s enterprise society and the largest of its kind in Europe. Recognising the fast-growing interest in entrepreneurship, Lennox has pulled together the country’s entrepreneur-focused societies, representing 25,000 students. She feels the lack of a ‘milkround’ among major recruiters this year has only fuelled interest in self-employment upon leaving university, with forming a start-up while studying an evermore attractive proposition.
It was reported in recent weeks that major graduate recruiters had reduced their planned intake by 28% with 5,500 vacancies cancelled or unfilled, according to High Fliers Research. Plus, the investor community has a long-held interest in backing the most innovative university ventures. Victoria Lennox says: “one of the key barriers that young entrepreneurs face when starting-up is information on, and access to, capital and investment.
Nacueventures.com is well-placed to fill this gap by helping young entrepreneurs across the UK to better understand funding options and to connect with interested investors.” Emmett Kilduff, cmypitch.com’s CEO says: “The best brain power in Britain is at the universities. The jobs market is effectively closed therefore students are being forced to explore the entrepreneurial route. And investors are out there, but have no formal way of sourcing good opportunities from universities. This is what drove me to launch nacueventures.com with Victoria. I want to help good university entrepreneurs find funding to fuel their business dreams.” Students using the site, which is free to upload pitches onto and only charges a one-off £99 to contact investors that express an interest, also boasts an unrivalled library of “investor readiness” tools, featuring video tips from top entrepreneurs, such as Dragons’ Den’s James Caan and former Dragon and SchoolforStartups.co.uk founder Doug Richard, both of whom are highly active angel investors.
There are other online resources such as guides, advice and offline support from incubation units and Enterprise societies. In addition, cmypitch hosts live pitching events entitled cmypitch Live, which are attended by business angels, family offices, seed funds and VCs. Investor-ready users of nacueventures.com will be able to pitch at the events. School for Startups’ Doug Richard, who is an advisor to NACUE, believes the site will meet a real need. “Student entrepreneurs are the lifeblood of the economy. NACUE brings a focus nationwide to that community and nacueventures.com is a great way for angel investors and the wider world to get a direct view of student opportunities. School for Startups is highly supportive of this initiative.” For investors, nacueventures.com has the potential to open up the UK’s best university investment opportunities and makes identifying the most attractive deals more efficient. Investors can save valuable time, allowing them to not only assess the business opportunity but also the people behind the proposition. Pitches can be filtered by university, stage, size, sector and whether the business has intellectual property – all key considerations for investors. Investors can also receive email alerts when a new pitch is added that matches their preferred criteria.
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Congreso Nacional Pueblo Mágico, Jóvenes Emprendedores, el cual se realizará en la ciudad de Pátzcuaro dentro de las festividades del 475 Aniversario de la ciudad. El evento se llevará a cabo en el Hotel Best Western Posada de Don Vasco los días 25, 26 y 27 de Septiembre del 2009.
Los precios de los boletos al congreso son de:
$350.00 pesos M.N. a partir del 15 de agosto al 14 de Septiembre.
$450.00 pesos M.N. del 15 de Septiembre al 22 de Septiembre
$550.00 pesos M.N. los días 23, 24 y 25 de Septiembre.
Los cuales incluyen entrada a todas las conferencias, diplomas con valor curricular, coffee break, coctel/cena de bienvenida en la casa de los 11 patios y la entrada a la fiesta de clausura.
HOTEL
Hotel Posada de Don Vasco (BEST WESTERN)**** (HOTEL SEDE)Habitaciones cuádruples
PROGRAMA DE ACTIVIDADES Y CONFERENCIAS
VIERNES 25 DE SEPTIEMBRE
ACTIVIDAD ¿QUIÉN? HORARIO
Registro Comité de Registro 8:00-9:00 hrs.
Inauguración Sala de Conferencias 9:00-9:30 hrs.
Conferencia vivencial “Si va a ser, depende de mí”
9:45-11:00 hrs.
Conferencia vivencial “Líderes Rebeldes” David Montalvo
Conferencista Inspiracional de categoría Mundial. 11:15-13:15 hrs.
Conferencia de “Liderazgo” Roberto Monroy García
Empresario y También secretario de Turismo del H. Ayuntamiento de Morelia 13:30-15:00 hrs.
C O M I D A C O M I D A 15:00-17:00 hrs.
Taller de “Publicidad Turística: como crear una red de usuarios e interesarlos en la visita a nuestro estado” L.M. María Fernanda Hernández Fernández 17:00-19:00 hrs.
Taller de “Mi cuenca” 17:00-18:00 hrs.
Taller de “Administración de Alimentos, Bebidas y Organización Logística de Eventos” 17:00-18:00 hrs.
Coctel de bienvenida 20:00 hrs.
SÁBADO 26 DE SEPTIEMBRE
ACTIVIDAD ¿QUIÉN? HORARIO
Conferencia “Turismo y su impacto en la economía y la ecología” 9:00-10:00 hrs.
Conferencia “Creando tu empresa” Secretaría de Desarrollo de Económico. 10:00-11:30 hrs.
Conferencia de “Nuevas Tendencias y Modelos de consumo en el Turismo” 11:45-13:00 hrs.
Conferencia “Pátzcuaro Pueblo Mágico” Secretaría de Cultura del Estado 13:15 – 14:15 hrs.
C O M I D A C O M I D A 14:30-16:30 hrs.
Taller de “Simulador de Negocios” 16:30-18:15 hrs.
Colectivo de fotografías 475 Aniversario de la Ciudad de Pátzcuaro 21:00-23:00 hrs.
Fiesta de clausura Club privado INK 21:00 hrs.
La Expo 2009 durará 3 días, 25, 26 y 27 de Septiembre es con entrada gratuita, en la cual se expondrán las mejoras empresas en los siguientes rubros:
• Turismo: Hotelería, agencias de viajes, transporte, destinos, promociones y paquetes vacacionales de Michoacán y estados vecinos.
• Educación: oferta educativa en el estado, nuevas carreras y universidades.
• Artesanías de la región.
• Sector empresarial: invierte en Pátzcuaro, nuevos negocios y comercios del Estado.
• Oferta Inmobiliaria en México: casas, departamentos, terrenos de Michoacán.
Dentro de esta zona comercial habrá también un pequeño auditorio para una muestra de grupos musicales y eventos culturales durante los días de exposición.
* El viaje tiene un costo de $1500.00 que incluye:
- Transporte ida y vuelta.
- Entrada al Evento
- Hospedaje los tres días y dos noches.
Además con tus entradas podrás disfrutar de todas las conferencias, talleres, serás acreedor de un diploma con valor curricular, la entrada a la fiesta y muchas cosas más!!!
Salimos el Jueves 24 de Septiembre en la noche (hora por confirmar) partiendo de la Fuente del Pensador de la Alameda.
Regresamos el Domingo 27 a la Clausura del Evento.
Aparta con tan solo 400 pesos para tener tu lugar confirmado dentro del evento.
* Recuerda que entre más te tardes los precios de la entrada suben.
Informes:
Metzi Blanquet 8711832300 metzi_blanquet22@hotmail.com
Nohemi Flores 8711208173 gnfv89@hotmail.com

This is an abbreviated version of a great article by our guest blogger Unigo.com.
Internships: Get paid to aid
Sadly, it’s no longer enough to just show up at college, do well in classes, and then step right into a six-figure, soul-satisfying job after four years. In order to increase your chances of getting that coveted position, you’ll have to spend some time in the trenches now—that summer-stealing concept known as “interning,” where you’ll eat ramen by night and fetch coffee by day, all for an empty paycheck.
Step 1: The Game Plan
At the risk of sounding like a PSA, the most important piece of advice for students is to stay informed and come up with a plan of attack. If you’re serious about finding an internship, you have to be resourceful, MacGyver-style. The first and most obvious place to check is your school’s career center. The career center’s website should be the cornerstone of your internship search. Career centers usually have a plethora of internship and job postings. Set up a meeting with a career counselor who will help you evaluate your past experience, resume, work skills, and (of course) career possibilities. This will help you formulate a general plan to run with.
The worst mistake you can make is to go into this process blindly—you’ll be quite disappointed with the results if you do. All the legwork you put in will most definitely pay off in the end.
Step 2: Cast a Wide Net
As helpful as the career center can be, you shouldn’t stop there. If straying off the beaten trail is your thing, why not look in the more unlikely places for an internship? Writers to-be should look further than The New Yorker and Vogue, potential bankers can look past Goldman and Sachs, and so on. The point is that there are many, many, employers in every field. Just because everyone guns for the top five companies doesn’t mean you should only apply to the big names. Smaller offices, while lacking the name-brand, sometimes makes up for that by granting its interns many more responsibilities, the kind that juice up resumes with HGH-type results.
Step 3: Be the Social Butterfly
Never underestimate the power of networking. If you’re really looking for a solid internship, your ears should always be open. Talk to professors, fellow students, and even your mom’s friend who you’ve always found to be annoying but works at Wells Fargo. They can all be invaluable resources. Who knows? Someone you know may know a guy who knows a guy who can get you the internship you’re eying. Remember, there is never any shame in asking for help, and sometimes that’s the best way to get ahead. Swallow that pride, and ask for help wherever you can find it.
Step 4: Apply and Conquer
Once you’ve found a few viable opportunities, it’s time to apply. You know the drill here. Your resume should already be juiced from your meeting with the career counselor, but if you want, you can custom-tailor your resume and the corresponding cover letter to address individual internships. Again, make sure to do some background research on the company you’re interviewing with so you’ll have some intelligent questions to ask during the interview. Asking questions shows that you did your homework and that you have a genuine interest in working with the employer.
There are a million things to think about when going into an interview, but the most important thing is to remember that you’re money. Seriously. If you walk in exuding an acceptable amount of confidence, you’ll impress your interviewers. Oh yeah, and wearing a snazzy suit never hurt anyone’s chances either. Good luck, you’re practically there.
The Secret? There is No Secret
Getting a paid internship isn’t all about luck, although some luck is definitely involved. Like most endeavors in life, it’s about preparation and work. It may seem like a hassle at first, but when you’re raking in some cash while your friends are getting nothing but a few credits, it’ll be well worth it.
About our guest blogger www.unigo.com
Unigo.com is a free online college guide by students, for students. Over 15,000 college students have contributed reviews and videos of their schools. At some colleges, 10% of the student body weighed in, going beyond admissions brochures to tell high school students what it’s really like to attend their school.
Powerful search technology allows users to find colleges and information most relevant to them. Students can sort Unigo’s user-generated content by school, major, extracurricular interests, demographics, ethnicity, political leaning of the reviewer and more.
A good friend of mine recently asked my thoughts on why starting a business in the recession is a good thing. It got me thinking and has inspired me to put my response to him in a blog post. Here is my response:
“For me its a case of opportunity cost (in terms of a graduate’s perspective) – in the current market where less corporates are hiring (the traditional graduate recruiters ), starting salaries are lower – why settle for a mediocre job which you don’t want/wont enjoy. The recession gives you a chance to take stock of your real hopes/dreams/passions/ aspirations and the time to give it a shot.
Also recession throws up opportunity - it enables you to look at the market failures and assess how can you do things better?
Albeit I’m totally biased having just recently shunned the grad recruitment route but just some of my thoughts
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The New Deal of the Mind (NDotM) is a coalition of leading figures from the UK’s cultural and creative industries who have formed a not-for-profit charitable company that seeks to boost employment in Britain’s creative sector – for the good of the entire nation. The NDotM believes that the creative industries are vital to the regeneration of the UK economy and highlights the potential risk of a generation of creativity being lost to the recession.
The initiative, less than a year old, has already formed a coalition of Cabinet ministers and leaders of the creative sector who realise that we must act immediately to address the problem.
Further information about the scheme can be found on their website, www.newdealofthemind.com
