The Cambridge Entrepreneurship Centre (CEC) is holding its annual Summer School this week. Budding entrepreneurs - some from within the University, some from local businesses - will be put through their paces in an intensive week-long course which will take them through all the main aspects of business start-up, from raising finance to team-building. At the end of the week the delegates will put their new skills to the test, when they present their business plans to a panel of expert judges.

The Cambridge Entrepreneurship Centre (CEC) is holding its annual Summer School this week. Budding entrepreneurs - some from within the University, some from local businesses - will be put through their paces in an intensive week-long course which will take them through all the main aspects of business start-up, from raising finance to team-building. At the end of the week the delegates will put their new skills to the test, when they present their business plans to a panel of expert judges.

The Summer School opened today, 2 July 2001 with a presentation by leading Cambridge entrepreneur Dr Herman Hauser, of Amadeus Capital Partners Ltd. He is just one of 40 contributors from the local business world who are taking part in the event in various ways - giving lectures, acting as workshop facilitators and reviewing the end-of-week business plan presentations. All of the contributors are experienced entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, legal and financial professionals involved in the development and growth of new ventures.

This the third year that the CEC has run the Summer School. Last year's delegates included Paul Goldsmith, from the University's Department of Anatomy. He says the course gave him "the confidence to apply the lessons and also to assess whether my business plan is viable." Paul is now working on a biotech start-up. Other delegates who have put their ideas into practice include staff from Cambridge Consultants Ltd, who have launched a spin-out company from an idea they developed at the Summer School.


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