Building a Business: Recent Episodes

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Building a Business is a lecture series designed to teach the fundamentals of developing a business. Each lecture provides practical information and examples to identify key aspects of successful entrepreneurship. These podcasts are the lecture video recordings registered at the Said Business School in Oxford, United Kingdom.

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Dr. Thomas Hellmann, Academic Director of the Entrepreneurship Centre at the Saïd School of Business, University of Oxford, presents final examples of financial projections. This lecture took place at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford on December 2nd, 2014.

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Dr. Thomas Hellmann, Academic Director of the Entrepreneurship Centre at the Saïd School of Business, University of Oxford, presents what are the classic mistakes that the entrepreneurs make when they do financial projections. This lecture took place at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford on December 2nd, 2014.

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Dr. Thomas Hellmann, Academic Director of the Entrepreneurship Centre at the Saïd School of Business, University of Oxford, explains what are the cost projections, integrated projections and how to manage the cash flow. This lecture took place at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford on December 2nd, 2014.

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Dr. Thomas Hellmann, Academic Director of the Entrepreneurship Centre at the Saïd School of Business, University of Oxford, explains what are the cost projections, integrated projections and how to manage the cash flow. This lecture took place at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford on December 2nd, 2014.

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Dr. Thomas Hellmann, Academic Director of the Entrepreneurship Centre at the Saïd School of Business, University of Oxford, explains the term financial projections. This lecture took place at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford on December 2nd, 2014.

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Christian Hernandez, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at White Star Capital, summarises the lecture with final remarks on how to raise venture capital. This lecture took place at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford on November 25th, 2014.

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Christian Hernandez, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at White Star Capital, explains the ratio of opportunities and how the investment process looks like from the venture capitalists perspective. This lecture took place at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford on November 25th, 2014.

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Christian Hernandez, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at White Star Capital, explains what is bootstrapping.

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Christian Hernandez, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at White Star Capital,explains the dynamics between venture capitalists, shareholders and clients.

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Christian Hernandez, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at White Star Capital, presents trends in technology that are interesting for venture capital companies.

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Christian Hernandez, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at White Star Capital, explains what is venture capital. This lecture took place at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford on November 25th, 2014.

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Robert Anderson, Intellectual Property Lawyer at Hogan Lovells, summarises the lecture with final remarks on intellectual property. This lecture took place at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford on November 18th, 2014.

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Robert Anderson, Intellectual Property Lawyer at Hogan Lovells, explains what are the commercial and practical matters to keep in mind when you want to protect your business idea.This lecture took place at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford o

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Robert Anderson, Intellectual Property Lawyer at Hogan Lovells, explains what is a patent. This lecture took place at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford on November 18th, 2014.

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Robert Anderson, Intellectual Property Lawyer at Hogan Lovells, explains what is a copyright. This lecture took place at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford on November 18th, 2014.

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Robert Anderson, Intellectual Property Lawyer at Hogan Lovells, explains what is a trademark. This lecture took place at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford on November 18th, 2014.

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Robert Anderson, Intellectual Property Lawyer at Hogan Lovells, explains what is intellectual property. This lecture took place at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford on November 18th, 2014.

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Dave Fletcher, Founder and Managing Director of White October summarises the lecture with final remarks on customer discovery. This lecture took place at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford on November 11th, 2014.

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Dave Fletcher, Founder and Managing Director of White October explains how to test the solutions in customer discovery. This lecture took place at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford on November 11th, 2014.

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Dave Fletcher, Founder and Managing Director of White October presents the ideas on how to test the problem in customer discovery. This lecture took place at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford on November 11th, 2014.

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Dave Fletcher, Founder and Managing Director of White October summarises the main issues regarding the customer development theory. This lecture took place at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford on November 11th, 2014.

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Dave Fletcher, Founder and Managing Director of White October explains the preparation process for customer discovery. This lecture took place at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford on November 11th, 2014.

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Dave Fletcher, Founder and Managing Director of White October explains what is customer development. This lecture took place at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford on November 11th, 2014.

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AJ Leon, Founder and Artistic Director of Misfit Incorporated and Twitgift summarises the lecture with some final remarks. This lecture took place at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford on November 4th, 2014.

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AJ Leon, Founder and Artistic Director of Misfit Incorporated and Twitgift presents the effective pitching an sales techniques. This lecture took place at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford on November 4th, 2014.

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AJ Leon, Founder and Artistic Director of Misfit Incorporated and Twitgift explains why the community is more powerful than a customer base. This lecture took place at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford on November 4th, 2014.

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AJ Leon, Founder and Artistic Director of Misfit Incorporated and Twitgift presents the basics of content marketing. This lecture took place at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford on November 4th, 2014.

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AJ Leon, Founder and Artistic Director of Misfit Incorporated and Twitgift presents the theory behind positioning and branding in order to drive traffic and generate interest in any business. This lecture took place at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford on November 4th, 2014.

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AJ Leon, Founder and Artistic Director of Misfit Incorporated and Twitgift presents his background and his company. This lecture took place at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford on November 4th, 2014.

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Maria Nikolou, Senior Programme Manger in the Entrepreneurship Centre, Saïd Business School summarises her lecture with final remarks. This lecture took place at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford on October 28th, 2014.

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Maria Nikolou, Senior Programme Manger in the Entrepreneurship Centre, Saïd Business School presents basic information concerning the customer development and minimum viable product. This lecture took place at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxfor

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Maria Nikolou, Senior Programme Manger in the Entrepreneurship Centre, Saïd Business School presents the Business Model Canvas and useful tips on how to use it.

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Maria Nikolou, Senior Programme Manger in the Entrepreneurship Centre, Saïd Business School presents the Lean approach.

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Pamela Hartigan, Director of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship presents the B-Impact Assessment tool. This lecture took place at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford on October 21st, 2014

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Pamela Hartigan, Director of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship introduces the concept of future-proofing business. This lecture took place at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford on October 21st, 2014.

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Constantin Coussios, Professor in the Institute for Biomedical Engineering at the University of Oxford, introduces the initial steps needed to launch a venture and issues to consider. In this chapter he presents administrative steps of starting a business in the UK. This lecture took place at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford on October 14th, 2014 I have also attached the signed form by the speaker.

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Constantin Coussios, Professor in the Institute for Biomedical Engineering at the University of Oxford, introduces the initial steps needed to launch a venture and issues to consider. In this chapter Prof. Coussios introduces basic terms and concepts.

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Constantin Coussios, Professor in the Institute for Biomedical Engineering at the University of Oxford, introduces the initial steps needed to launch a venture and issues to consider. In this chapter Prof. Coussios presents practical insight on having a venture. This lecture took place at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford on October 14th, 2014

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Constantin Coussios, Professor in the Institute for Biomedical Engineering at the University of Oxford, introduces the initial steps needed to launch a venture and issues to consider. In this chapter Prof. Coussios presents reasons for starting a venture. This lecture took place at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford on October 14th, 2014

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Constantin Coussios, Professor in the Institute for Biomedical Engineering at the University of Oxford, introduces the initial steps needed to launch a venture and issues to consider. In this chapter Prof. Coussios introduces concepts that will help in answering to question “Should I be an entrepreneur?”. This lecture took place at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford on October 14th, 2014

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Constantin Coussios, Professor in the Institute for Biomedical Engineering at the University of Oxford, introduces the initial steps needed to launch a venture and issues to consider. This lecture took place at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford on October 14th, 2014

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Pamela Hartigan, Director, Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, Saïd Business School, discusses some emerging models of entrepreneurial ventures that have a social and/or environmental mission at their core. Pamela Hartigan reviews the sources of capital available for these types of organizations, given that their aim is PURPOSE maximization rather than PROFIT maximization. She examines how these new ventures are similar but different to charities and mainstream business. She examines emerging trends in the commercial sector that will allow entrepreneurs to pivot their models to ensure their operations aggressively promote positive social and environmental value.

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Simon Husband, Director, Richardsons Financial Group gives some frank advice on taxes, record-keeping and financial control for entrepreneurs in the early stage of business.

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Ian Kessler, Professor of International Human Resource Management, King's College London, gives a talk for the 2013-14 Building a Business series

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Henry Davis, Senior Associate, Index Ventures, gives a talk for the 2013-14 Series of Building a Business

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Ian Bingham, Senior Partner, IP Asset LLP, gives a talk for the Building a Business seminar series looking at intellectual property law and how new businesses can protect their ideas

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Barbara Diehl and Maria Nikolou, The Entrepreneurship Centre, Saïd Business School give a talk for the Building A Business seminar series looking at creating a business plan from business models.

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Pamela Hartigan is the Director of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at Saïd Business School.

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John Knights is the Co-founder and Chairman of Leadershape Ltd.

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Simon Husband is the Director of Richardsons Financial Group.

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Martin Chilcott, founder and CEO of 2 degrees, specialises in the environment and education. 2 degrees is the largest community for sustainable business globally.

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Tim Cook (Non-Executive Director of Isis Innovation) discusses managing people and teams.

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Tim Cook (Non-Executive Director of Isis Innovation) discusses managing people and teams.

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Patrick Mawhood (Head of Product Manufacturing at Sky IQ) discusses marketing and developing your product or service.

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Patrick Mawhood (Head of Product Manufacturing at Sky IQ) discusses marketing and developing your product or service.

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Fiona Reid (Former Executive Director of the Oxford Centre for Entrepreneurship and Innovation) talks about communicating your vision and the ideal business plan.

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Jonathan Reynolds (Academic Director of the Oxford Institute of Retail Management) discusses principles of marketing, including using the internet and social media.