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Audacious > Blog
Posted by kari.petroschmidt There are many reasons why you might want to start a company. People talk a lot about “push and pull” factors. Push factors being anything that forces you to start up (like being fired from a previous job) and pull factors (like the desire to earn more than you are currently being…
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31 May Posted by jessie.e.mckay Photo by Alex Lovell-Smith The Top 40 Awards evening was held last night in the beautiful Sargood Centre at Logan Park. The sweet sounds of The Mentalist Collective, the stunning art works by the Otago Polytechnic P Lab (print lab), delicious catering by Otago Polytechnic and some inspiring speeches by…
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Audacious > Blog
Posted by kari.petroschmidt When you have an idea that you are enthusiastic about, the most natural thing is to want share it with other people. Once you do that, you get a better idea of whether any of these people might also be excited by it. And, if they are, perhaps they want to help…
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Audacious > About
Since its inception Audacious has been about helping students start up through a two-part competition (which you can read more about on the Challenge page). But firstly, what is starting-up? In essence, it’s about starting a business. But it’s also so much more. Being your own boss. Taking a risk. Doing what you love. Audacious…
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Audacious > Sponsors
Audacious is sponsored by a number of entities who give us big love and support. Thanks. OUR Supporters
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Audacious > Challenge
Audacious provides a structure for students who want to start businesses; inspiration, community, advice and funding. Round one, in the first semester, involves idea development. The Top 40 ideas will receive a share of $10,000 to get the ball rolling on their start-ups. In second semester you will further develop your initial concept and pitch it to…
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Audacious > Blog
Posted by kari.petroschmidt So Andrew Wallace spoke for us at The Church last week about getting creative. Here’s some commentary. Andrew characterised a starter as a talker – someone confident, extroverted, a force for something. I agree that starters are generally confident, assertive people. But I think penning any one group with such a particular…
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10 Oct Posted by kari.petroschmidt The final, penultimate Audacious event of 2012! The Audacious Awards Ceremony… This evening was about so much more than awarding a few prizes to the winners of this year’s challenge. It was a celebration – of creativity, of taking risks, of people following their passions. From Audacious starters, to young…
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Audacious > Blog
Posted by kari.petroschmidt What is Audacious? Well, I’ll start by giving you the pared back, simplified version. It’s essentially a competition which aims to facilitate Otago students starting businesses. We begin with round one in semester one, where students are to develop an idea and submit this to a judging panel. Those students selected to…
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Audacious > Blog
Posted by kari.petroschmidt So that’s an exaggeration, but there’s a lot of distrust there. Historically ‘entrepreneurship’ has not been seen as inspirational, or as Art but rather viewed with suspicion and derision, considered more lowly than the comparatively honourable professions of law and medicine (for example). Though we’re a materially obsessed culture and we love…
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Audacious > Blog
Posted by kari.petroschmidt There’s something that’s always appealed to me about Karl Largerfeld. He’s a workaholic, going so far as to practice the Uberman sleep schedule (something to which I’ve always aspired but never quite gotten around to… watch this space). He’s obsessed with creativity and learning, he wants to know everything. And he’s intelligent and immensely…
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Audacious > Blog
Posted by kari.petroschmidt Success is a matter of being able to overcome these psychological barriers because everyone, and I mean absolutely everyone, has moments of doubt, loneliness and vulnerability. If we ‘fail’ as a result of these sentiments that is entirely human and understandable. No one is infallible. But undoubtedly success is largely a matter of…