The finalists have been chosen for this year\u2019s Business Start-Up Journey competition, with potentially winning pitches including a vegan e-commerce site, swimwear brand, a nutrition and fitness app and a portable light ring.<\/p>\n
The BSUJ<\/a> is a co-curricular programme of interactive practical workshops open to students from any School or Faculty at the University of Kent, at any level of study from Stage 1 undergraduate<\/a>\u00a0to final year,\u00a0postgraduate<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0PhD<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Journey, which is part of the University\u2019s\u00a0Study Plus programme<\/a>, takes students through the process of starting a business \u2013 from finding an idea, testing it, establishing finances and start-up costs, to pitching to investors.<\/p>\n The programme ends with a Dragon’s Den style pitching competition, where hopefuls battle it out to win a cash prize for investment in their business.\u00a0 The final will take place via Zoom on March 31 2021.<\/p>\n The winner of the pitching competition will receive \u00a31000 to help start their business, with two runners-up prizes of \u00a3500 each. While the judges decide on the winners, finalists and the audience can compete in a fun quiz with the chance to win \u00a3100 to spend at selected ASPIRE start-up businesses.<\/p>\n Previous Business Start-Up Journey finalists have gone on to run successful businesses, including KBS alumnus Vasu Sarin, founder of medi-tech company TabCare<\/a>, Politics graduate, Tobi Kolawole-Olutade, founder of RR Collective<\/a>, Ruth Vanderfaille, co-founder of Real Brides<\/a> and Esther Asaolu, Jelikatu Kamara and Fatima Kamate, co-founders of Shady Beauty<\/a>.<\/p>\n To register for the event, email ASPIRE@kent.ac.uk.<\/a><\/p>\n Visit the <\/strong>ASPIRE page<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0on the\u00a0<\/strong>Kent Business School<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0website for more information on the Business Start-up Journey and how it can help grow your entrepreneurial skills.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The finalists have been chosen for this year\u2019s Business Start-Up Journey competition, with potentially winning pitches including a vegan e-commerce site, swimwear brand, a nutrition … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74553,"featured_media":5080,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54,1],"tags":[164121],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14314"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74553"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}The Finalists\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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The Prizes<\/strong><\/h2>\n