Venture Up 2016 -
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Venture Up 2016 -
Project 2015-12-06 11:53:55 +1300
Venture Up 2016 is comprised of the top 40 young entrepreneurs in New Zealand, aged 16-21.
They are coming together in Wellington for six-weeks in January and February to take part in an entrepreneurship accelerator run by Creative HQ.
Venture Up 2016 is a full-immersion startup experience including enterprise education, real world connections with business and innovation communities, and personal capability, and skillset building. It is designed to supercharge the next generation of entrepreneurial leaders.
The programme is a non-profit initiative funded and run by Creative HQ, with support from Ministry of Youth and Callaghan Innovation. To pay for accommodation and board in Wellington for six weeks we need to raise funding to match our main sponsor Wellington City Council.
We are fundraising here to keep Venture Up affordable for all comers, regardless of background or access to resource. Participants give up six-weeks of earning potential to attend so we try to keep the actual direct costs of attending as low as possible.
Your contribution will help pay for these outstanding youth entrepreneurs to stay in student accommodation in Wellington from Jan 10 - Feb 20, 2016, while they work up their startup ideas, and build ventures together.
Venture Up 2016 is :
Aidan Scott, Auckland
Alana Kirby, Wellington
Cameron Fuller, Nelson
Cameron O'Donnell, Invercargill
Charlotte King, Auckland
Danielle Watt, Auckland
Derek Lieu, Auckland
Dylan Rogan, Auckland
Eleanor Jiang, Invercargill
Elisha Fleming, Nelson
Emily Christensen, Dunedin
Emma Forbes, Auckland
Felix Page, Wellington
Francisco Shim, Auckland
Hayden Washington-Smith, Palmerston North
Hunter Waihape Auckland
Jacksen Love, Wellington
Jacob Van Winden, Auckland
Jakobb Mills, Auckland
Jimmy Philip, Christchurch
John Rassie, Christchurch
Jordan Palmer, Taupo
Joy Wood, Auckland
Kasey Huntingdon, Whakatane
Keith Toma, Auckland
Kim Essenberg, Christchurch
Liberty Thein-Pie, Dunedin
Logan Johnson, Dunedin
Loren Tomlinson, Wellington
Michael Sherlock, Auckland
Nicholas Bing, Auckland
Nick Hyland, Wellington
Omer Hazer, Cambridge
Pravesh Narayan, Auckland
Rachel Yuen, Auckland
Rebecca Gidall, Nelson
Sam Yelchich, Auckland
Sophie Shrimpton, Mt Maunganui
Tiger Chen, Auckland
Toby Hendy, Christchurch
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Updates 4
Venture Up Goes On!
29/01/2016 at 6:35 AM
Hi Massive Supporters!
The campign is over and we missed our mark by a fair wedge! But we were looking for a fair wedge to start with!
We went for some personal approaches in the final days of the campaign, to make up the chunky end of the campaign. People love Venture Up and give a lot, but we couldn't reach the $25,000 mark.
We are stoked to have had such messages of support from you all and the pledges of support, large and small. We have banked those in our hearts, and thank you dearly for the push, the cash and the general Awesome Karma you sent to Venture Up.
We won't be taking your cash however (it's all or nothing with these things) and unfortunately we won't be fulfilling the rewards. We will still accept Awesome Karma, so keep sending that!
Funding programmes like Venture Up is the largest challenge we have in running them and we are lucky to have the support of Ministry of Youth, Wellington City Council and Victoria University alongside everything the Young Enterprise Trust, our mentor and speaker community and people like you put into the programme.
For that we are extremely grateful.
Please keep up to date with our blog here > http://www.ventureup.co.nz/blog/
We have just celebrated the halfway mark in the Venture Up 2016 programme and the eight teams gave some great presentations to our community of sponsors last night. Tune in for the grand final showcase on Feb 16 - let us know if you want to come along, it's limited seating but we have seats for the people we love.
And that's you. Thank you very much. For everything.
Always Venture Up.
Nick, Liv, Lingy and the Venture Up Crew.
10 days! PLEDGE it up!
19/01/2016 at 11:39 AM
Dear Backers...
It's getting down to the wire and we need to PLEDGE IT UP
To help with that we have brainstormed some great new rewards! See here...
- Venture Up pushups
- Dunk-A-Founder
- Venture Up cake for morning tea!
- Or for something more serious - try a Lean Startup Workshop for those aspiring entrepreneurs, students and busiensses looking to improve the way they innovate and execute in 2016. But one for a school, business, startup you love!
It's humbling to have your support, please back us into the home stretch. Let's do this!
Yours,Nick, Liv, Lingy and the Venture Up'rs.
It's Live - almost!
08/01/2016 at 8:46 PM
Happy New Year!
Venture Up 2016 begins January 11. Forty of the best young minds from around NZ are on their way to Wellington over the next two days, and will spend six weeks forging a future in creating smart growth businesses and commercialising ideas.
Thanks to those awesome pledgers who brough the festive cheers to support us! Ho Ho Ho to you!
We are still a way off our target for supporting these amazing individuals to realise their potential and would love you to share the Venture Up campaign as widely as you can.
2016 is going to be an amazing year - for 40 young up and comers especially - and we will keep you appraised with updates of how Venture Up is launching into it as we go!
Please share and challlenge your friends, whanau and other fabulous folk to support this group of incredible young people.
Thanks!
Nick, Oliviah and Lingy and all the Venture Up'rs.
P.S. Travel safe you lot! See you on Sunday!
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Pledgers 40
15/12/2015 at 11:28pm
15/12/2015 at 11:04pm
15/12/2015 at 8:00pm
"brilliant initiative!"
15/12/2015 at 6:16pm
15/12/2015 at 6:13pm
"Venture Up will grace my memory forever! No doubt it will be even better in 2016! This is for Westlaker Aidan Scott! You're a legend mate :D"
15/12/2015 at 4:45pm
15/12/2015 at 4:44pm
"Good luck with your Ventures everyone!"
15/12/2015 at 4:20pm
"Venture Up is a fantastic initiative. Happy to support so 40 deserving young entrepreneurs get this amazing opportunity."
15/12/2015 at 4:18pm
"Fantastic programme. Looking forward to seeing the best young entrepreneurs in NZ come to Welly for Venture Up!4943100067925750"
15/12/2015 at 4:14pm
"Woohoo! Go go Venture Up."
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Venture Up 2016 -
Project 2015-12-06 11:53:55 +1300
Venture Up 2016 is comprised of the top 40 young entrepreneurs in New Zealand, aged 16-21.
They are coming together in Wellington for six-weeks in January and February to take part in an entrepreneurship accelerator run by Creative HQ.
Venture Up 2016 is a full-immersion startup experience including enterprise education, real world connections with business and innovation communities, and personal capability, and skillset building. It is designed to supercharge the next generation of entrepreneurial leaders.
The programme is a non-profit initiative funded and run by Creative HQ, with support from Ministry of Youth and Callaghan Innovation. To pay for accommodation and board in Wellington for six weeks we need to raise funding to match our main sponsor Wellington City Council.
We are fundraising here to keep Venture Up affordable for all comers, regardless of background or access to resource. Participants give up six-weeks of earning potential to attend so we try to keep the actual direct costs of attending as low as possible.
Your contribution will help pay for these outstanding youth entrepreneurs to stay in student accommodation in Wellington from Jan 10 - Feb 20, 2016, while they work up their startup ideas, and build ventures together.
Venture Up 2016 is :
Aidan Scott, Auckland
Alana Kirby, Wellington
Cameron Fuller, Nelson
Cameron O'Donnell, Invercargill
Charlotte King, Auckland
Danielle Watt, Auckland
Derek Lieu, Auckland
Dylan Rogan, Auckland
Eleanor Jiang, Invercargill
Elisha Fleming, Nelson
Emily Christensen, Dunedin
Emma Forbes, Auckland
Felix Page, Wellington
Francisco Shim, Auckland
Hayden Washington-Smith, Palmerston North
Hunter Waihape Auckland
Jacksen Love, Wellington
Jacob Van Winden, Auckland
Jakobb Mills, Auckland
Jimmy Philip, Christchurch
John Rassie, Christchurch
Jordan Palmer, Taupo
Joy Wood, Auckland
Kasey Huntingdon, Whakatane
Keith Toma, Auckland
Kim Essenberg, Christchurch
Liberty Thein-Pie, Dunedin
Logan Johnson, Dunedin
Loren Tomlinson, Wellington
Michael Sherlock, Auckland
Nicholas Bing, Auckland
Nick Hyland, Wellington
Omer Hazer, Cambridge
Pravesh Narayan, Auckland
Rachel Yuen, Auckland
Rebecca Gidall, Nelson
Sam Yelchich, Auckland
Sophie Shrimpton, Mt Maunganui
Tiger Chen, Auckland
Toby Hendy, Christchurch
Comments
Venture Up Goes On!
29/01/2016 at 6:35 AM
Hi Massive Supporters!
The campign is over and we missed our mark by a fair wedge! But we were looking for a fair wedge to start with!
We went for some personal approaches in the final days of the campaign, to make up the chunky end of the campaign. People love Venture Up and give a lot, but we couldn't reach the $25,000 mark.
We are stoked to have had such messages of support from you all and the pledges of support, large and small. We have banked those in our hearts, and thank you dearly for the push, the cash and the general Awesome Karma you sent to Venture Up.
We won't be taking your cash however (it's all or nothing with these things) and unfortunately we won't be fulfilling the rewards. We will still accept Awesome Karma, so keep sending that!
Funding programmes like Venture Up is the largest challenge we have in running them and we are lucky to have the support of Ministry of Youth, Wellington City Council and Victoria University alongside everything the Young Enterprise Trust, our mentor and speaker community and people like you put into the programme.
For that we are extremely grateful.
Please keep up to date with our blog here > http://www.ventureup.co.nz/blog/
We have just celebrated the halfway mark in the Venture Up 2016 programme and the eight teams gave some great presentations to our community of sponsors last night. Tune in for the grand final showcase on Feb 16 - let us know if you want to come along, it's limited seating but we have seats for the people we love.
And that's you. Thank you very much. For everything.
Always Venture Up.
Nick, Liv, Lingy and the Venture Up Crew.
10 days! PLEDGE it up!
19/01/2016 at 11:39 AM
Dear Backers...
It's getting down to the wire and we need to PLEDGE IT UP
To help with that we have brainstormed some great new rewards! See here...
- Venture Up pushups
- Dunk-A-Founder
- Venture Up cake for morning tea!
- Or for something more serious - try a Lean Startup Workshop for those aspiring entrepreneurs, students and busiensses looking to improve the way they innovate and execute in 2016. But one for a school, business, startup you love!
It's humbling to have your support, please back us into the home stretch. Let's do this!
Yours,Nick, Liv, Lingy and the Venture Up'rs.
It's Live - almost!
08/01/2016 at 8:46 PM
Happy New Year!
Venture Up 2016 begins January 11. Forty of the best young minds from around NZ are on their way to Wellington over the next two days, and will spend six weeks forging a future in creating smart growth businesses and commercialising ideas.
Thanks to those awesome pledgers who brough the festive cheers to support us! Ho Ho Ho to you!
We are still a way off our target for supporting these amazing individuals to realise their potential and would love you to share the Venture Up campaign as widely as you can.
2016 is going to be an amazing year - for 40 young up and comers especially - and we will keep you appraised with updates of how Venture Up is launching into it as we go!
Please share and challlenge your friends, whanau and other fabulous folk to support this group of incredible young people.
Thanks!
Nick, Oliviah and Lingy and all the Venture Up'rs.
P.S. Travel safe you lot! See you on Sunday!
You need to pledge to see this update.
15/12/2015 at 11:28pm
15/12/2015 at 11:04pm
15/12/2015 at 8:00pm
"brilliant initiative!"
15/12/2015 at 6:16pm
15/12/2015 at 6:13pm
"Venture Up will grace my memory forever! No doubt it will be even better in 2016! This is for Westlaker Aidan Scott! You're a legend mate :D"
15/12/2015 at 4:45pm
15/12/2015 at 4:44pm
"Good luck with your Ventures everyone!"
15/12/2015 at 4:20pm
"Venture Up is a fantastic initiative. Happy to support so 40 deserving young entrepreneurs get this amazing opportunity."
15/12/2015 at 4:18pm
"Fantastic programme. Looking forward to seeing the best young entrepreneurs in NZ come to Welly for Venture Up!4943100067925750"
15/12/2015 at 4:14pm
"Woohoo! Go go Venture Up."