{"id":31,"date":"2026-07-16T06:02:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T06:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev-dreamslms-wp.dreamsmarketplace.com\/university\/business-school-launches-entrepreneurship-programme\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T05:15:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T05:15:15","slug":"business-school-launches-entrepreneurship-programme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev-dreamslms-wp.dreamsmarketplace.com\/university\/business-school-launches-entrepreneurship-programme\/","title":{"rendered":"Business School Launches Entrepreneurship Programme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Business School has launched a new Entrepreneurship Programme that pairs every participating team with a founder-in-residence and gives them a full year to take an idea from concept to launch.<\/p>\n<p>The programme is open to students from any faculty, not just business \u2014 a deliberate choice, since the best ventures usually pair a technical idea with someone who can build a business around it.<\/p>\n<h5>How the programme works<\/h5>\n<figure class=\"uni-post-figure\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"uni-post-img\" src=\"https:\/\/dev-dreamslms-wp.dreamsmarketplace.com\/university\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/uni-blog-31-inline.jpg\" alt=\"A mentoring session in the enterprise studio\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption>Every team is paired with a founder-in-residence for the year.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Teams are supported across the whole journey rather than dropped at the pitch stage:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"uni-post-list\">\n<li><i class=\"isax isax-tick-circle5\"><\/i> A dedicated enterprise studio open to teams around the clock<\/li>\n<li><i class=\"isax isax-tick-circle5\"><\/i> A founder-in-residence mentoring each team through the year<\/li>\n<li><i class=\"isax isax-tick-circle5\"><\/i> Seed funding and legal support for the most promising ventures<\/li>\n<li><i class=\"isax isax-tick-circle5\"><\/i> Introductions to the university&#039;s alumni and investor network<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote class=\"uni-post-quote\">\n<p>We did not want another business-plan competition. We wanted students to actually ship something, learn what breaks, and fix it \u2014 with people beside them who have done it before.<\/p>\n<p><cite>The programme director<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Applications for the first cohort are open now, with places allocated on the strength of the idea and the team rather than academic grades alone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Business School has launched a new Entrepreneurship Programme that pairs every participating team with a founder-in-residence and gives them a full year to take an idea from&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev-dreamslms-wp.dreamsmarketplace.com\/university\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev-dreamslms-wp.dreamsmarketplace.com\/university\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev-dreamslms-wp.dreamsmarketplace.com\/university\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev-dreamslms-wp.dreamsmarketplace.com\/university\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dev-dreamslms-wp.dreamsmarketplace.com\/university\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165,"href":"https:\/\/dev-dreamslms-wp.dreamsmarketplace.com\/university\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions\/165"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev-dreamslms-wp.dreamsmarketplace.com\/university\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev-dreamslms-wp.dreamsmarketplace.com\/university\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev-dreamslms-wp.dreamsmarketplace.com\/university\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev-dreamslms-wp.dreamsmarketplace.com\/university\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}