The GEP class has come together to organize their first-full scale entrepreneurship event: The GEP Weekend!
With the tireless work of many dedicated GEPers…what started as an ambitious kernel of an idea has blossomed into a full-fledged, 2-day entrepreneurial competition: featuring business pitches from Chinese and international teams, an expert panel of judges and VCs, mentors with extensive entrepreneurial experience, keynote speakers, and even a cash prize for the winning team!
Putting this bad boy together in a couple of months was no easy feat… As many of us didn’t speak Mandarin or were unfamiliar with the way things get done in China… negotiating with Zhejiang University for resources and funds, finding local companies and VCs to become our sponsors, organizing the venue and logistics and food, and marketing this event to Chinese entrepreneurs and business students—was one HELL of a task.
But with lots of networking, help from our Chinese classmates, sweet-talking presentations, website building, brochure-writing, and many sleepless, zombie-eyed nights in front of computer screens (especially from our Eastern European heroines, Ilona and Dasha)—WE DID IT! Congratulations to all the GEPers that took part in making this debut GEP Weekend actually happen!
In the past few weeks, many GEPers have also started to get the most out of each other’s skills—forming entrepreneurial teams with classmates to work on real business ideas. Let me be the first to say: ‘THANK GOD!’ After month upon month and hour upon hour of grueling lectures and assignments…it sure feels good to sideline business school academia for a moment to finally get our hands dirty with real entrepreneurship.
So if you happen to be in Hangzhou, China this Friday and Saturday (April 8-9th), come and attend the GEP Weekend at Zhejiang University’s Zinjingang Campus! And if you have any burning business ideas on your brain, then you’d better register soon because this thing is happening in less than 2 days!
For more details about the event, who is coming, and what role you can play, please visit: www.GEPWeekend.com.
Come share your ideas. Listen to the ideas of others. Network with real entrepreneurs and industry experts. Take part in developing the next best thing and start up tomorrow.
GEP Weekend!
It’s on.
Now may the best team win.
-Seb
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