Welcome to Audacious

Audacious helps University of Otago and Otago Polytechnic students start, and run, their own business. Audacious is about helping young entrepreneurs get a foothold and giving them the tools they need to succeed. Our entrepreneurs range from product designers and web developers to manufacturers and medical specialists.  Audacious has an experienced network of affiliates and sponsors providing advice and support to fledging businesses.

We offer a range of services including:

 
Successful entrepreneurs lose as much as win PDF Print E-mail


NBR Audacious – Business Idea Competition Prize Giving 2009

Tuesday 2 June 2009


The message to student entrepreneurs at the NBR Audacious – Business Idea Competition Prize Giving was that if you don’t find success tonight, join the club. And it’s a pretty big club with some impressive members.

PocketSmith entrepreneur Jason Leong spoke directly to the 84 students who didn’t win last week. Leong himself entered the competition a couple of years ago without success. His entry in the competition was the financial forecasting tool PocketSmith.

The application has now been contracted by the world's largest employee services company, United States-based Workplace Options, to help its client companies' employees with budgeting and financial planning.

This year’s winners were Tim Vaughan, Joshua Jeffery, Geoff Howes and Henry Genefaas, Eilonwy Fung, Kane Edwards, and Clement Tan, and both Bruce Fairhurst and Ha Lim Kim entered two ideas which won them two awards each.

The winners of the NBR Audacious – Business Idea Competition were awarded $1000 each for their best entrepreneurial ideas. The ideas were varied this year, with concepts focused on tourism, fishing, sustainability and technology.

Audacious business coach Ryan Priemus said the challenge was designed for people with good business ideas which they would like to develop further.

“The next stage of the competition is the real test of these ideas. Students have to provide a detailed plan that covers all aspects of their businesses, from management, financials and marketing. This allows them to work out where the issues are and if in fact the idea is viable,” Priemus said.

NBR Audacious is supported by the National Business Review, Dunedin City Council, the University of Otago School of Business, and Otago Polytechnic.

 
Congratulations to our winners PDF Print E-mail

 

Congratulations to the winning 10 entries in the NBR Audacious Business Idea Challenge.

The competition received 94 entries and the prize giving was held Thursday 28th May.

Our 10 winners on the night were:

  • Tim Vaughan
  • Joshua Jeffery
  • Bruce Fairhurst (1)
  • Geoff Howes & Henry Jenefaas
  • Eilonwy Fung
  • Kane Edwards
  • Bruce Fairhurst (2)
  • Ha Lim Kim (1)
  • Clement Tan
  • Ha Lim Kim (2)

For the first time ever we had two winners win twice!

Congrats to all those who took time to enter, and of course to the cash prize winners.


Feedback

As business coach I was independent of the judging process, in fact I have not read your idea unless you met with me or sent it to me for review.  However, some of the judges have provided feedback on the entries they marked.

I am going to hold "office hours" in the Start-up Lounge Room 201 of the Commerce Building, 60 Clyde Street to review the judges' feedback with you if you are interested.  Just come along during the hours:

  • Tuesday 2 June 11am-1pm
  • Wednesday 3 June 2pm-4pm
  • Thursday 4 June 10am-12noon

I cannot guarantee feedback as not all judges made comments, but I will try my best with what information is available.

Cheers,
Ryan