Lecture from SIE (Scottish Institute for Enterprise) - 1/03/13
Today we have a speaker in (Dawn from SIE) who discussed starting up your own business.
What does SIE do?
SUPPORT
INSPIRE
ENCOURAGE
Make a job rather than take one?
* Earn some extra cash whilst studying
* Become self employed
* Start up business after graduating
* Invent something
Ideas for student businesses
* Promotions
* Freelancing
* ebay business, Etsy
* Odd jobs
* Tutoring
* Online business
Bubble Browse is a website set up by a student in St Andrews to help other students find accommodation.
Aberdeen Student Storage was set up by a student for international students who need somewhere to hold there stuff between uni terms when moving out of halls.
To discover a good/viable idea, STOP, LOOK AND LISTEN to see what is missing.
Dawn asked us to collect one item from the front of the class and come up with a minimum of 10 business idea for this item. The item our group collected was a small circular bar of soup that you see in hotels.
* Festival soap bar
* Sculpture soup.
* Gift Box
* Wonky table
* Could sell to restaurant/bar/hotel chains etc
* Broaches
* Urine Cake
* Army kits
* Hygienic Air hockey for kids in the bath
* Floating candle holder
Springwise.com
A good business idea...
* Solving a problem, making life better
* Using existing technology but different application
* Offering an existing idea with different business model
* Making the most of you!
What else is out there?
* Enterprise gym and Careers
* Youth Business Scotland
* Business Gateway
* Culture Enterprise Office
* Starter for 6
* Shell Livewire
* Ideas Tap
* Creative Scotland
* Unltd
* www.ipo,gov,uk
Keep in touch
* D.Shand@sie.ac.uk
* Dundee.intern@sie.ac.uk
Young Innovators Challenge
13th March - SIE Summit in Edinburgh
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