Building a Business

Stage: Inspire. For: Students and staff. Term: Michaelmas

Programme Overview

A Building a Business lecture in progress at the Said Business School

Building a Business is a co-curricular event series open to all current University of Oxford students and staff who are either in the early stages of exploring their own potential ventures or hoping to improve their own businesses. This foundational programme will give you the opportunity to understand and learn more about what it takes to run your own business.

Over the course of six weeks, you will learn how to navigate Oxford's ecosystem, how to embrace an entrepreneurial mindset and much more. This experience is designed to give you the tools and confidence to pursue your own potential ventures. You can choose to sign up to the whole series or to the individual lectures that interest you. The programme outline is as follows -

Monday 14 October, 5.30-8pm - Entrepreneurial beginnings: your path via Oxford's ecosystem
Monday 21 October, 5.30-8pm - Entrepreneurial beginnings: embracing entrepreneurial mindset
Monday 28 October, 5.30-8pm - Ideation and beyond: cultivating and refining your ideas
Monday 4 November, 5.30-8pm - Ideation and beyond: crafting compelling value propositions
Monday 11 November, 5.30-8pm - From co-founders to capital: building your support network
Monday 18 November, 5.30-8pm - From co-founders to capital: funding your journey

Who Can Apply?

Building a Business is now open for registrations to all students and staff at the University of Oxford and runs throughout Michaelmas term. Registration can be done via our skills and career development platform, Inkpath, allowing you the opportunity to track your progress throughout the programme and set future goals. More information on Inkpath and how to create an account can be found here. If you have any issues when signing up to Inkpath please do get in touch and we'd be happy to help - enspire@admin.ox.ac.uk.