As its name implies, the Startup Adventure is meant to be an adventure and is a journey where you should expect self, professional, and academic growth.
Some say it’s a business in its initial stages, but I got to experience something more than that. I learnt that a startup is developing a unique product or service and trying to implement it into the market for solving problems, filling a gap in the market, and making it irresistible for customers not to use.
At the beginning of the 2021/2022 summer holidays, I took part in the Startup AdVentures Program where I worked full-time for four weeks with a startup.
University of Queensland Advanced Finance and Economics (Hons) and Veterinary Science students, Darcy Douglas and Eunseo Oh (Bri), completed Ventures’ virtual four-week entrepreneurship program Startup AdVenture in July 2021.
Working in the world of startups wasn’t initially part of the plan for The University of Queensland engineering student, Tony Jojo. Tony believes his current success as Head of Product Development for audio technology startup, Audeara, started from his time with UQ’s accelerator program, ilab, and the opportunities it gave him.
A missed train through rural China was the catalyst for UQ engineer and business students Isabelle Fleming and William Kirkwood to come up with the idea of a Chinese debit card.
Israel is a beautiful country with a rich culture of innovation and entrepreneurship. I recently undertook an internship at a medtech company in Tel Aviv with some help from UQ Ventures. Here are some business strategy gems I picked up along the way.
Living in Israel was an amazing experience. Israel has many layers to it, it can be complex, warm, fun, adventurous, fast or loud. More or less you could call it a complex country.
Nearly $2.1 million in funding will go towards helping more than 500 University of Queensland undergraduate students study overseas and realise their ambitions.
