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Meet this week Troy D'Ambrosio, ex political student, successful serial entrepreneur and now Executive Director at Lassonde Entrepreneur Institute, University of Utha, USA. Troy present the exciting new entrepreneurship hub, the Lassonde Studio where 400 studentpreneurs will be able to live, create, and study... with scholarships .

Wrap up:

We have talked with all our guests on how hard it can be to study and run a business at the same time. With the Lassonde Studio, a unique project, Troy and the Lassonde Entrepreneurship Institute are removing ALL THE BARRIERS for studentpreneurs. On that campus not only you won't feel like you don't fit but you will be supported and encouraged to create, network, tinker and finish your degree. No longer will you have to work in your parents' garage, they provide an "innovation garage" on campus open 24/7, with housing, with all the cool toys (recording studios, 3d printers,....) for 400 studentpreneurs from all horizons and all ages. If that wasn't enought there are $3 million worth of scholarship available. I am amazed by this project, it's one of a kind in the world but I hope that other universities will be inspired. If you are in your last year of High School and in any year of undergrade and postgrade, go an apply now for a start in Fall 2016 (ie July). You can reach Troy on http://lassonde.utah.edu/. Go apply now and share this project with your own University.

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Meet this week awesome studentpreneurs: Mohammed Fawaz, 22 years old, student in Business Information Management system at Middlesex University, London and founder of Global Tutors in Sri Lanka. Wrap up: Each studentpreneurs' story is different and what works for some people doesn't for others, however I'd like to point out of few things in Mohammed Fawase's journey that are similar to the studentpreneurs I studied in my research: He embraced networking from very early on and subsequently met several influential people, including two mentors who even ended up investing in his business. There is no particular skills for networking, everyone can learn it, Fawase was a mathematic student in High School and he had no problem networking! He leverages his network for learning as he learns from his environment. Finally he increased his network globally by attending the Global Student Entrepreneur Award competition. Once again, there was no local competition in Sri Lanka but he reached out anyway to the organisation and ended up having an incredible time with the 35 GSEA finalists, all like minded people from across the globe. You can do it too , go visit GSEA.ORG and enroll in your local competition! If you have what it takes you can apply to share your story on air: www.studentpreneur.com.au

Meet this week awesome studentpreneurs: Owen Yang, 22 years old, who just finished a Commerce degree Business and Arts at the University of New South Wales (USNW) and is currently running Activ Pass. He was listed as one of Smart Company's top 30 Under 30 Entrepreneurs for 2014.

Book recommended: The 4 hour week. Wrap up: Each studentpreneurs' story is different and what works for some people doesn't for others, however I'd like to point out of few things in Owen's journey that are quite exciting: He saw an opportunity when he ran into the pain point of signing up for a special training for a entrance test, that's when he realised he could make money through services. He then also applied the concept of the four hour week to his university curriculum: it's about beating the game: pick the easy subjects first, get to know people from the previous year, go to 2 tutorials and not the lecture.... Owen also explained very well how to use the R&D money back system in Australia for any innovative apps, that's one of his current business where he hopes to reach a 7 figure turnover within 6 months! Finally, he highlights the importance of good co-funders as they decided to start a new business, Activ Pass, different from the previous one but since they knew and trusted each other they were able to start it quickly, ahead of the competition. On another note, Owen runs another business called Gowning Street where he lowers the costs of graduating, by selling academic gowns for as little as $45-$79. when rental at most unis is at least $75. Visit www.gowningstreet.com.au If you have what it takes you can apply to share your story on air: http://studentpreneur.com.au/

Welcome to episode 12! My name is Julien Marchand, entrepreneur turned PhD student. Each week I bring you the best of those individuals who are students and entrepreneurs, I call them studentpreneurs.

This week is another special episode on competitions. You have heard how critical competitions are to get started or motivated in a super safe environement. On the 8th ,9th and 10th of May I helped organise a weekend competition, called Startup Weekend, held on the Sunshine Coast here in Queensland, Australia. There are a lot these types of weekend competitions around, Startup Weekend is a franchise, check their website and check your local competition. The concept is pretty simple: you come on the Friday night with or without an idea, people pitch their ideas, the top ideas get chosen and teams form around those ideas. Then it's a crazy competition over 54 hours where people build a startup, pivot, eat and barely sleep until the final pitches on Sunday night. There is so much of positive energy being created, it's worth the exhaustion (you may have noticed that last week podcast was released late ehehe). Anyhow, at Startup Weekend Sunshine Coast 2015 there were over 30 students out of the 90+ participants, who started startups with designers, developers, careative and business people. Will they become studentpreneurs? I don't know but they gave it a fair go. I can't really explain what goes on there so how about you hear it from the people who did it? Follow the teams, in order or appearance: 1) ThrUSB 2) HitchedIn : http://www.hitchedin.co/ and https://www.facebook.com/pages/HitchedIn/1439353929694622 3) Yoda 4) TubeTalk: Twitter: #tubetalk, Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TeamTubeTalk 5) Spare Harvest: https://www.facebook.com/SpareHarvest 6) Urainfall: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Urainfall/867835949942033 7) K-Million: https://www.facebook.com/groups/817053408381939/ 8) Tinkerize www.tinkerize.com.au (under construction) 9) Follow Me 10) Noshy 11) Digital Showbag: https://www.facebook.com/digitalshowbag 12) Manda Monster 13) Clinka: https://www.facebook.com/groups/clinka/ Follow the Sunshine Coast community at Silicon Coast: https://www.facebook.com/groups/siliconcoast/

Meet this week awesome studentpreneurs: Jamie Atson, 34 and Aisha Bhukari 31 years old part time MBA students at Toronto University and part of ATTOLLO Social Entreprise team.

About the Hult competition: The Hult Prize Foundation is a start-up accelerator for budding young social entrepreneurs emerging from the world’s universities. Named as one of the top five ideas changing the world by President Bill Clinton and TIME Magazine, the annual competition for the the Hult Prize aims to identify and launch the most compelling social business ideas—start-up enterprises that tackle grave issues faced by billions of people. Winners receive USD 1 million in seed capital, as well as mentorship and advice from the international business community.

This week is a special episode on a competition for studentpreneurs: The Hult Competition. Jamie Aston and Aisha Bhukari represent their team ATTOLO Social Entreprise. This episode highlights the great opportunity that entrepreneurship competitions are for studentpreneurs. Jami+B109e and Aisha did not have business experience but they launched into that competition with 2 other members, Peter and Lak. However, they all have their own experience that they have leveraged to build their current product, Talking Stickers. They are committed to each other to go through the one year competition, now they have gone to Dubai to become one of the 6 teams qualified out of the 20,000 participating teams and they will get a fantastic experience being part of the Boston MIT accelerator program and get a shot a the $1 Million dollar prize. All of that because they decided to participate in the competition. So can you, check the competitions around you and get started.

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Meet this week awesome studentpreneurs :Wilf Watson, 26 years old, studying double degree Business and Arts at the University of the Sunshine Coast & Danum Harris-Lusk, 22 years old, student in Business at USC and both co-funders at Phenomec

Wrap up: Each studentpreneurs' story is different and what works for some people doesn't for others, however I'd like to point out of few things in Wilf and Danum'd journey that are similar to a lot of studentpreneurs I have interviewed for my research:

Both Danum and Wilf valued university to meet like minded people. They are a very good examples of leveraging entrepreneurship competition. These competitions are everywhere, at universities, meetups, or event organised globally like the Global Student Entrepreneur Award (GSEA) or Startup Weekend Co. Danum was on his third competition when met Wilf. They got empowered by the energy and the guidance they received at the weekend and won. This gave them a lot of motivation and validation but more: they received mentoring and work space in an innovation centre that helped them keep the motivation going and know where to go. A year later they have presented their product in several countries, received seed money and are on the verge of a kickstarter campaign. So the lesson here is: find out the competitions happening around you and get on board, you will gain valuable experience, meet like minded people and who knows, you might end up a year later in Wilf and Danum's position.

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Meet this week awesome studentpreneur: Nicholas Kissajukian , saster student in Commerce at USNW and entrepreneur at Hipfood in Sydney, Australia. Learn more about Nicholas on www.StudentPreneur.com.au

Nicholas' tip:

Use your student card.

Don't be affraid to ask any one with experience and you will be surprised by their generosity.

Wrap up: each studentpreneur' story is different and what works for some people doesn't for others. For this episode I wanted to go a little bit outside the profile of studentpreneur I have interviewed so far, yes Nicholas is still at an early stage but he illustrates a couple of my findings in my research. Well, first, you don't need to be in tech to have a startup;) Well, it actually goes deeper than this: some of the jobs around offers real entrepreneurial experience. With Nicholas you can see how a chef in his cuisine is running his own business within the restaurant, and like entrepreneurs, as Nicholas said, he is managing chaos. Our studentpreneur started working early in that environment, which helped him break away from the mainstream mindset. Of course having both his parents as small business owners helped too. However, something else happened to help him to get started: an elective at Uni that gave him the basics of how to get started, with the lean startup methodology and a competition with empowering and enabling prizes such as a space in an incubator. Finally, he wasn't affraid of asking anyone with experience how to do things.

As a student you have a very powerful tool: your student card. So use it, contact people with experience, they are always happy to help students, go an do your customer validation out of the building waving your student ID and you will be impressed how easier things gets, so don't wait and start leveraging your student card

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Meet this week awesome studentpreneur: Stephen Esketzis, 21 years old, Student in Commerce at Deakin University and entrepreneur with Tracktasia in Melbourne, Australia.

Stephen's recommendations:

- Entrepreneur on Fire (podcast)

- Conversion Cast (podcast)

- Cardone Zone (podcast)

- Marketing on the move (Stephen's own podcast)

- DotCom Secret Book By Russell Brunson (book)

Wrap up: Each studentpreneur' story is different and what works for some people doesn't for others, however I'd like to point out of few things in Stephen's journey that are similar to a lot of studentpreneurs I have interviewed for my research:

He started by sellings things to his classmates in high schools. He recognises the fact the one needs to learn the ropes in the industry before to fly but at the same time he has the sense of urgency, like the successful 18 year olds coming behind him. He values greatly sales skills and needs to be in control.

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Meet this week awesome studentpreneur: Galo Vargas, 29 years old, Student in Master of Interaction Design at the University of Queensland and entrepreneur with Getinkspired.com in Brisbane Australia.

Wrap up: Each studentpreneur'story is different and what works for some people doesn't for others, however I'd like to point out of few things in Galo's journey that are similar to a lot of studentpreneurs I have interviewed for my research:

He started by sellings things to his classmates in high schools, his first job came from his passion developing websites for his friends, he values his mentor and the importance of university in terms of learning but also as an environement to grow a business. What was interesting is that he shows that entrepreneurship is not the one option, it pays to go back in an out the corporate world to grow and value one's entrepreneurial skills. So starting your business now can help you get a job in a couple of years.

Books recommended by Galo:

Zero to One from Peter Thiel

Tip: Fail fast!

Website: getinkspired.com

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Meet this week awesome studentpreneur: Adam Stone, 20 years old, Commerce and Law student at Monash University and entrepreneur with Speedlancer in Melbourne, Australia.

Learn more about Adam on www.studentpreneur.com.au

Time for a quick wrap up each studentpreneur 'story is different and what works for some people doesn't for others, however I'd like to point out of few things in Adam's journey that are similar to a lot of studentpreneurs I have interviewed for my research:

He started by sellings things to his classmates in high schools, then on ebay. That's a start that we have seen again and again with the guests of this podcast. There is something that is really different about Adam: he totally automated and outsourced his business, reaching the ultimate goal of removing himself from the business. This is really powerful as a studentpreneur because then he can focus on his studies! It's quite interesting to see him starting a new business because contrary to a lot of the studentpreneurs on this show, it's been a while since he has started a new venture. He can bring a lot of experience from his previous business! Hopefully we will hear from him when his 500 startup program finishes!

Books recommended by Adam: 4 hour week

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