STARTUPS: STARTING BUSINESS WHEN WE?RE YOUNG

STARTUPS Seminar’s speakers

UPH Business School organized an entrepreneurship seminar with the tagline ?STARTUPS? on February 6, 2015, at UPH Hope Building. According to Jacob Tan, UPH Business School?s Head of Entrepreneurship Programs, this seminar aims to equip and prepare UPH Business School students, especially students of 2013, who are going to enter the Entrepreneurship concentration, in order to have a correct understanding of the business world. “To enter this Entrepreneurship Program, it will never be easy. The students should have a right character, mindset and charisma of this real entrepreneurship world,” said Tan.

William Gozali, Business School UPH alumnus as the first speaker

The topic of this seminar is Venture Capitalism, which is a long-term investment from investors to entrepreneurs who are just starting their business (startup) and small companies. Venture Capital is a very important source of finance for startups which do not have access to enter the world of Capital Market. The speakers invited in the seminar are people who are experts in the field of Venture Capitalism, such as Matt Elsberry, Vice President for Organization and People Development at Bumi Raya Group, William Gozali, who is an alumnus of UPH Business School and the Co-Founder of Nexgigs, Adrian Li, Managing Partner at Convergence Accel, Luke Roush, Managing Principal for Sovereign’s Capital, William Wijaya, Regional Manager of the South East Asia Region at Fenox Venture Capital, Christian Sutardi, Associate at Monk’s Hill Ventures and Nicko Widjaja, Entrepreneur, Venture Capitalist, Educator . Two of them are entrepreneurs who graduated from USA and most of them started their business from zero. To this day, they have managed to successfully become famous entrepreneurs in the field of Venture Capitalism.

STARTUPS speakers giving seminar

STARTUPS seminar?s participants

Approximately 600 people attended the event, mostly from UPH Business School, nearby college and high school students, and the rest were parents of the students. The participants of this seminar were very enthusiastic and they enjoyed the seminar. As soon as the first session ended, a lot of questions were immediately raised by the participants. One of them came from a Nottingham High School student who asked about what to do in order to keep his business on selling a product run properly. The question was answered slickly by William Gozali, saying that when we are selling a product, we should know what we are actually selling “because you don?t sell the product, you sell the story behind that product”. This is the comment from one of the participants:

“This seminar is very helpful and it?s really good, the speakers have really amazing experiences. We gain explanations on Ventor capitalist, which I now know is very important. The speakers are indeed very inspiring, I become very interested in entering the entrepreneurship concentration. “   Dewilia Natasya – Management 2013   (fc)