Entrepreneurial Think Tank

Entrepreneurial Think Tank Promoting entrepreneurship, connecting entrepreneurs, sparking new ideas and new ventures Got a business idea? Wana learn how to start your own business?

NOTICE: The Entrepreneurial Think Tank has taken an indefinite break, we may start up again if there is enough renewed interest. Meet and connect with other entrepreneurs? To get the chance to learn from the best? Then come join us every second Wednesday this semester from 5.30-7, and bring all your friends too ;)

The entrepreneurial think tank aims to be an organisation that:

- Generates, imple

ments and supports all new business ideas
- Develops to become a network reaching into many business sectors for the empowerment of all members
- Becomes a forum for learning about entreprenuership and how to start a business

We meet on a semi regular basis to connect and network, discuss and generate new ideas, support current start-ups and learn the ins and outs of starting a new venture. Over the course of the year we aim to go through the entire process of starting up a business, from how to validate ideas and write a plan to the formation and development of a new business. To help facilitate this we will bring in speakers knowledgeable in these various areas as well as other experienced entrepreneurs who can share their stories and impart their wisdom. For the more experienced members who know the ropes we will look at splitting things up a bit depending on numbers. You may even be able to help us out with the weekly topics too. If this sounds like you, come along! everyone is welcome, even bring a friend or two if you wish.

24/10/2012

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07/10/2012

Idealog is the magazine and website of New Zealand creative business, ideas and innovation

Last year our very own Nick Barrett was awarded first prize in the Venture Fund. Come along Wednesday and find this yea...
01/10/2012

Last year our very own Nick Barrett was awarded first prize in the Venture Fund. Come along Wednesday and find this years results.

Idealog is the magazine and website of New Zealand creative business, ideas and innovation

Look for where the opportunity is. Anyone have a good idea for a service you could offer businesses?
15/09/2012

Look for where the opportunity is. Anyone have a good idea for a service you could offer businesses?

Those that do are winning big.

10/09/2012

Hey guys check out the http://www.thenakedceo.com/ where you can find some great video interviews with business leaders in Australia. They also host a competition where the best questions asked get a trip to Melbourne to sit in the naked CEO's boardroom

03/09/2012

Gary Bolles, who is a Silicon Valley Entrepreneur, will be in AUT tomorrow, Tues 4 Sept from 11.00am at WA220 to give a talk. Let me know if you want more info on this.

21/08/2012

Hey guys, i am running out of options for speakers for next week. Does anyone know someone who could come speak? Plz get in touch if you do, otherwise we could try go as a group to another entrepreneurship type event? Im open to other ideas too

15/08/2012

Thanks for everyone who came last night! Would love to hear your feedback so let us know what you thought or got out of the meeting. Here is the list of links and websites from last night Abraham has sent us -- Connect With Me
Twitter -
Linkedin - Abraham Gibson
Email - [email protected]

Learning
HBR - http://www.hbr.org/
TED Talks / RSA Animate - http://www.ted.com/ http://www.thersa.org/
Hacker News - http://www.news.ycombinator.com/
Sprouter - http://www.sprouter.com/
TechCrunch - http://www.techcrunch.com/
Stanford E-Corner - http://www.ecorner.stanford.edu/

Connecting
Meetup - http://www.meetup.com/
Twitter - http://www.twitter.com/
Linkedin - http://www.linkedin.com/

People To Follow / Read
Eric Rise - http://www.startuplessonslearned.com/
Steve Blank - http://www.steveblank.com/
Paul Graham - http://ycombinator.posterous.com/
Jason Calacanis - http://www.launch.co/
Andrew Chen - http://www.andrewchen.co/
Mark Suster - http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/
Dave McClure - http://500hats.typepad.com/
Marc Andreessen - http://blog.pmarca.com/
Seth Godin - http://sethgodin.typepad.com/

Trends To Watch
Mobility
Cloud (Cheap, scalable and on demand computing resources)
Big Data (Transactions, Sensors, Demographics, Behaviors, Preferences, Likes, Connections, Activity etc)
E-Commerce

14/08/2012

Hey just a reminder we are having our next meeting tomorrow night @5.30 Wf202. For everyone who couldnt make it last week heres a few lessons we took from Pete:
- There is no right formula of successful business.
- Your commitment and thirst for success makes it a Successful business.
- it takes a good mix of strategy and dare to step over boundaries, to see if it really matters which makes you learn & prevent risks.
- Established business is about customer experience & retention
- New business its about sales, sales, sales and product development to suit customer needs, value creation.
3 Elements of a sale Conversion
1. Motivation
2. Ability to purchase
3. A Trigger
Perfect mix would be High motivation [feel good], easy purchase [ability to purchase], and the wow factor [trigger]

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