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From 0 to 1 – building your idea into a high performing business
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The MBS Melbourne Alumni Chapter (MAC) invites you to attend From 0 to 1 – building your idea into a high performing business. In this seminar, a panel of two experienced entrepreneurs and an innovation academic will talk you through common principles of a start-up, where to start and the challenges involved.
We’ll hear from Doron Ben-Meir who first floated his start-up when he was 25. He’s created a few more since then. Doron will talk about his journey and how he put pen to paper.
This will be followed up by our own MBS lecturer Kwanghui Lim who will bring the strategy back in to your start-up and provide you the tools to begin.
Last but not the least, Georgia Beattie will talk us through the start-up environment in Melbourne and the challenges faced by entrepreneurs.
All of this will be followed by an open Q&A with the audience. We’ll finish the night with networking drinks and nibbles afterwards.
Timing:
6.00pm - Registration
6.30pm - Panel convenes
7.30pm - Networking, drinks and nibbles
Please note: This event is free of charge. MBS will provide nibbles and drinks can be purchased from the bar (card only).
Where
Dining Room, Melbourne Business School
200 Leicester Street, Carlton, VIC 3053, Australia
Speakers
Georgia Beattie
Georgia began her career studying entrepreneurship at Babson College, Boston and RMIT, Melbourne. Shortly after finishing her University degrees, Georgia raised seed capital to found wine startup Lupé Wines in 2011. Lupé Wines specialised in supplying events, airlines and hotel minibars with the world's first single serve glass of wine designed for ease of use. The company expanded quickly across Australia, Japan, Korea, Taiwan and China. In 2016 the company was successfully sold.
Georgia took on the CEO role at Startup Victoria in 2016 to help organise the startup ecosystem from her experience as an Australia entrepreneur. At the start of 2018 Georgia joined Realestate.com.au to run a internal high growth venture Spacely.com.au.
Kwanghui Lim
Kwanghui Lim is Associate Professor at the Melbourne Business School and works on managing strategy and innovation. His research explores the strategies used by organizations to manage inventors, scientists and the knowledge they generate.
In 2013, he created the MBS Innovation Bootcamp for MBA students. In 2016, he launched Create Your Own Enterprise, a course for the new Masters of Entrepreneurship program at the Wade Institute. He also co-founded Biodesign Melbourne, which places MBS MBA students into teams with Masters of Engineering students and hospital clinicians to create new medical devices and develop a commercialisation pathway for their inventions.
Kwang has a Ph.D. in management from the MIT Sloan School, has published in leading academic journals and has coached entrepreneurial teams within startups and established firms. For further information visit http://kwanghui.com
Doron Ben-Meir B.Sc. B.E (Hons) GAICD
Mr Ben-Meir has extensive experience in the venture capital industry and commercialisation more generally. Over the past twenty six years he has been involved in numerous venture capital organisations; has been a founder or co-founder of six start-up companies; as well as an investor, investment manager, and advisor to several other companies.
In April 2010 Mr Ben-Meir was appointed by the Australian Federal Government as the inaugural CEO of Commercialisation Australia and, from 1 July 2014, was further appointed as the Director of the Entrepreneurs’ Infrastructure Programme. In this role, Mr Ben-Meir led the establishment of a national portfolio of over 550 companies including 4 successful exits and several substantial capital raisings (>$5million).
In June 2015 Mr Ben-Meir was appointed the inaugural Executive Director of Research, Innovation and Commercialisation at the University of Melbourne and CEO of University of Melbourne Commercial Limited, with responsibility for all research funding, external commercial engagements and the commercialisation of University generated intellectual property.
In July 2016 he was appointed Vice-Principal Enterprise on the Chancellery Executive of the University of Melbourne. Building upon the operational base established within the Research, Innovation and Commercialisation portfolio, this new role is responsible for the overarching development of the University’s Enterprise Strategy, the mission of which is to enrich the University’s discovery and teaching environments by weaving industry, business and government into the fabric of the institution to address the major challenges of our time.