New Entrepreneurs Foundation
The aim of the Foundation is to create a new generation of outstanding entrepreneurs who will play a role in Britain’s future growth and prosperity and create new market-leading businesses. We do this by selecting 30 of the UK’s brightest, most entrepreneurially minded young people each year. We equip them with hands-on experience, skills and networks to build scalalbe businesses.
Who to follow
New Entrepreneurs Foundation Programme 2013-14
NEF are on the hunt for the next generation of entrepreneurs
- London, United Kingdom
- Opportunity has expired
- Salary Details: Everyone on the programme will receive a basic salary which is paid by their host entrepreneur company. This will amount to £20,000 a year for those in London and £16,000 a year if placed outside London. Additional scholarship funding to assist with living costs may be available on a case-by-case basis.
ABOUT
Creating a new generation of outstanding entrepreneurs who will build market leading businesses and play a key role in driving Britain’s future prosperity.
What we do...
We equip young, aspiring entrepreneurs with hands-on experience, skills and networks to build scalable businesses.
How we do this...
Our unique 12-month programme consists of four main components:
1. A paid work placement in an exciting, innovative, high growth company working alongside a successful entrepreneur and/or their senior management team, experiencing at close quarters how to run a successful company
2. An intensive, immersive and interactive 10-month learning and development programme with workshops from our corporate sponsors such as Deloitte, McKinsey
and Tesco; business schools such as London Business School, UCL and the Centre for
Entrepreneurial Learning at Cambridge Judge Business School, and other specialist learning
providers
3. Monthly speaker & networking events featuring established business leaders and
inspirational entrepreneurs such as Brent Hoberman, Sir Charles Dunstone, Sherry Coutu,
Joe Cohen, Lord Young of Graffham and Lord Davies of Abersoch, to name a few
4. An Executive coach for each of our New Entrepreneurs
Learning and Development Programme...
Our 10-month Learning and Development programme runs alongside the work placement.
It is intensive, immersive and interactive. Monthly workshops are provided by our corporate sponsors, leading business schools and specialist learning providers. It is divided into three semesters:
Semester One: September - December
*Discovering your entrepreneurial profile How to Build Complementary Teams
*Your Appetite for Risk Personal Branding Problem Solving (McKinsey)
*Developing Social Capital (PwC)
Semester Two: January - March
*Entrepreneurship – Theory and Practice (UCL) Developing Resilience (Tesco)
*Spotting Opportunities (London Business School) Entrepreneurial Finance (UCL)
*Entrepreneurial Marketing (UCL) Negotiation Skills (Scotwork)
*Pitching and Presentation Skills (Mudhut)
Semester Three: April - June
*Pre-incubator Phase: Teams work on real business opportunities from ideation to funding readiness