Chris Coleridge & Patrick McGinnis host a webinar on low-risk entrepreneurship
- Career Center
- Le 9 mai 2022
In this webinar, Chris & Patrick examine entrepreneurship as a career option and ask how real-world founders can create great businesses without running great risks. They will discuss how new entrepreneurs can make sure their career path continues to make sense whether or not their venture succeeds.
In particular:
- Smart ways that real entrepreneurs use to reduce risk
- Alternative routes to funding
- Why the best business ideas are “close to home”
- How to avoid the venture capital dependency trap
- Why the heroic myths of entrepreneurship lead new entrepreneurs astray
- Why you should view a startup as one project in your career
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About the speakers:
- Chris Coleridge was an entrepreneur as a young man in the 1990s, became an academic in entrepreneurship and strategy after exiting his business, and recently returned to the “practical” side of entrepreneurship alongside his continuing work at Cambridge Judge Business School where he is a senior faculty member. Chris has taught entrepreneurship both inside and outside academia. He was formerly programme director of the MSc in Technology Entrepreneurship at UCL, and founded the Cambridge Judge Launchpad (now simply known as the Master of Studies in Entrepreneurship).
- Patrick McGinnis is the author of The 10% Entrepreneur. He is also a venture capitalist and private equity investor and has built a diverse portfolio of investments outside of his day job. He has visited more than 70 countries and is fluent in Spanish, Portuguese, and French. He writes for Fortune, Fast Company, Business Insider, Huffington Post, Boston Magazine, and Forbes. He has an MBA from Harvard Business School. More resources at www.patrickmcginnis.com.
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