Startup Case Studies

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What is Intellectual Property?

How do you know what actually constitutes IP ownership? If you created it, bought the rights for it, or have a brand that could be a trademark, you could own IP.
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Are you ready to start a business?

So you've been thinking about starting a venture recently, but how do you know if you actually are ready? Here's a quick checklist which will help you decide.
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Startup Case Study: Mycelium

It is better to be extraordinary and fail, then try to be ordinary and succeed." So says Dan Holloway, whose day job might conjure images of methodical plodding rather than outlandish creativity!
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Startup Case Study: Common Ground

Common Ground on Little Clarendon Street, is a shared workspace and café, it's a social enterprise for which the word 'eclectic' might have been invented.
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Startup Case Study: Pick Me Up Parcels

To the world at large, students have a ball. Their life is a smorgasbord of late nights and lie-ins, with the occasional lecture thrown in to keep them on their toes. The reality is different.
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Becoming a student entrepreneur

University education is increasingly becoming more diverse, with a greater emphasis on the whole experience, not just the actual academics.  Entrepreneurship education is becoming more prominent.
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Why should students learn entrepreneurial skills?

Thinking about becoming a student entrepreneur? Or just looking to expand your skill set? Here's why as a student you need to learn entrepreneurial skills.
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The similarities between academics and entrepreneurs

What's the difference between an academic and an entrepreneur? In reality there are a lot of similarities in working in academia and working in a startup.
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Startup Case Study: Bloom and Wild

The online flower delivery company, Bloom & Wild, has 3 Oxford alumni on its team of 30, including its co-founder and CEO. We spoke to their Oxford alumni contingent to hear all about Bloom & Wild.
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IDEA: EDI recruitment and event planning checklists

At IDEA (Increasing Diversity in Enterprising Activities), we have created EDI and accessibility checklists that you can use within any entrepreneurship event planning or recruitment practice.
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Startup Case Study: Marulin

Read more about Marulin, an award-winning company set up under the auspices of Oxford's Graduate Entrepreneur Visa (GEV) scheme.
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Startup Case Study: Hutano Diagnostics

Atherton Mutombwera knew from an early age that he wanted to work in healthcare. Even as he played as a child in his native Zimbabwe, he would imagine he had found a cure for HIV

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