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Free business start-up seminars
Learn from the country’s most successful entrepreneurs at our series of free business seminars that provide a practical guide to starting-up your own company.
Visit our YouTube channel to watch a selection of past webinar videos.
They are available to attend in person at Heriot-Watt's Edinburgh campus but also available to watch live online as it happens. As well as guiding participants through the exciting and challenging world of high tech start-ups, these seminars assist potential Converge Challenge applicants formulate their business ideas and plans.
Please see below for a summary of each of the seminars planned for 2013 - more details will be added over the coming months. If you would like to be notified when bookings are open for each seminar, please email Converge Challenge to be added to our mailing list.
| Date (2013) | Seminar title |
|---|---|
| 8th March | Meet an Entrepreneur/What type of business should I start? |
| 12th April | Market Research for Beginners/Introduction to Intellectual Property |
| 10th May | Product Development/Finance & Funding |
| 14th June | Using Social Media for Business Development/Team Building for Start-ups |
| 13th September | Introduction to Operation & Supply Chain/Running a Service Based Business |
Start-up surgeries
Dr Kozlova also offers one-to-one advice in her start-up surgeries, open to all staff and students of Heriot-Watt wishing to create a start-up business of their own.
Advice is given on a wide range of business-related aspects, including intellectual property, funding and finance and marketing and sales. These take place after each of the monthly seminars.
To book an appointment, please email startup@hw.ac.uk or call +44 (0) 131 451 3870.