A practical guide to business start-up: business finance tips

  • Date: , 12:15 - 13:45
  • Venue: Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh Campus, Edinburgh, EH14 4AS, Scotland
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Dr Olga Kozlova, Enterprise Creation Manager, co-ordinates a monthly seminar series aimed at providing budding entrepreneurs with useful advice and tips on starting a company.

As well as guiding participants through the exciting and challenging world of high tech start-ups, it assists potential Converge Challenge applicants formulate their business ideas and plans.

Sessions are open to postdoctoral research and academic staff, and PhD, MSc, MRes and final year degree students from Heriot-Watt University or research pools of which Heriot-Watt University is a member.

About this seminar

Few businesses can get off the ground without some initial funding. This seminar will recommend some simple ways you can manage your finances when you're starting out, including advice on:

  • obtaining grant funding
  • debt
  • generating revenue through sales

Download the presentation and audio from this seminar:

About our speaker, Mark Zwinderman

Mark Zwinderman is co-founder and Commercialisation Director of Surface Active Solutions, as well as being a Managing Director of Aboleo Ltd.

Mark founded his first company in 2000 as a spin-out from Edinburgh Napier University. Since then he has become a serial entrepreneur bringing to market to market micro-emulsion technologies for the oil & gas and healthcare industries.

Mark has raised over £800,000 worth of funding from grants and debt funding, and has achieved over £3.5 million worth of sales revenue over the past 7 years.