{"id":1018,"date":"2019-02-07T12:38:12","date_gmt":"2019-02-07T12:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/outreach-news\/?p=1018"},"modified":"2019-02-07T12:38:12","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T12:38:12","slug":"the-business-start-up-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/outreach-news\/2019\/02\/07\/the-business-start-up-journey\/","title":{"rendered":"The Business Start Up Journey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>ASPIRE<\/strong> (part of Kent Business School) develops programmes that are designed to help students of all ages explore the process of setting up a business.<\/p>\n<p>Through<em> The Business Start Up Journey<\/em>, participants will identify and develop a viable business proposition. They will also develop entrepreneurial behaviours and mindsets which enhance life skills and employability. As well as encouraging an appreciation of the business start-up journey, students will develop active problem solving attributes, presentation, communication, team work and leadership skills.<\/p>\n<p>Students will be guided in how to find a business idea using simple ideation and problem-solving techniques. In small groups they will explore how to develop an idea \u2013 considering competition, customers, routes to market, start-up costs, use of technology, brand and marketing. The final stage of the process is building a pitch deck to present to the other groups and win over potential \u201cinvestors\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The programme can run over several days, a day, or in shorter sessions over successive weeks and this can take place either on campus or in school.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about this activity, please contact <a href=\"mailto:ASPIRE@kent.ac.uk\">ASPIRE@kent.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ASPIRE (part of Kent Business School) develops programmes that are designed to help students of all ages explore the process of setting up a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/outreach-news\/2019\/02\/07\/the-business-start-up-journey\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40798,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[163995],"tags":[19149,163922,163937,211609,163955,211608,211626,211627,30159],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/outreach-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/outreach-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/outreach-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/outreach-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40798"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/outreach-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1018"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/outreach-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1019,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/outreach-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018\/revisions\/1019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/outreach-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/outreach-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/outreach-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}