{"id":17310,"date":"2022-10-18T14:06:32","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T13:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/?p=17310"},"modified":"2022-10-19T11:52:43","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T10:52:43","slug":"entrepreneurs-offer-advice-at-medway-business-start-up-journey-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/2022\/10\/entrepreneurs-offer-advice-at-medway-business-start-up-journey-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Entrepreneurs offer Advice at Medway Business Start Up Journey Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Business Start-Up Journey launch event took place on 12 October at our Medway campus.<\/p>\n<p>Entrepreneurs Tomiwa Sosanya,\u00a0Winner Adebayo and Giovanni Morgan shared stories of setting up their start-ups and support their received from ASPIRE.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_17315\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17315\" style=\"width: 699px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/files\/2022\/10\/Giovanni-Morgan-profile-e1636708279851.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-17315 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/files\/2022\/10\/Giovanni-Morgan-profile-e1636708279851.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"699\" height=\"481\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17315\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marketing graduate Giovanni Morgan appeared at the event alongside other former ASPIRE students<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>During the drop-in part of the event, ASPIRE\u2019s Entrepreneur in Residence, Jon Carroll provided practical advice to students curious about setting up their business.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJoining The Business Start-Up Journey completely shifted my mind, I started thinking like an entrepreneur,\u201d remarked Tomiwa Sosanya who presented on the day.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are lots of different business ideas out there, but it&#8217;s all about the execution,&#8221; said former Marketing student Giovanni Morgan who is owner of MGX Jeans, a fashion label.<\/p>\n<p>The event was well attended, and everyone enjoyed networking over pizza afterwards.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/kent-business-school\/facilities\/aspire\"><strong>Do you want to develop a business idea or launch a start-up? Are you interested in learning more about entrepreneurship and sustainable innovation? Then ASPIRE, the University-wide space for entrepreneurship and start-ups is here for you.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/kent-business-school\/news\/16787\/app-bootcamp-to-empathy-mapping-the-business-start-up-journey-22-23\">For the Business Start Up Journey timetable click here. <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Business Start-Up Journey launch event took place on 12 October at our Medway campus. Entrepreneurs Tomiwa Sosanya,\u00a0Winner Adebayo and Giovanni Morgan shared stories of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/2022\/10\/entrepreneurs-offer-advice-at-medway-business-start-up-journey-launch\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74553,"featured_media":17314,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17310"}],"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=17310"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17347,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17310\/revisions\/17347"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kbs-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}