Start-up and Business Venture is a practical program designed for aspiring entrepreneurs who wish to launch a new venture.
The program provides a complete guide on how to start a business, analyze the market, prepare the business model and develop a growth strategy. A special attention is dedicated to funding and capital raise, critical factors for the success of an early-stage start-up.
Our curriculum equips you with proven strategies, techniques, and frameworks across a wide variety of functional and leadership topics. With access to the latest research insights that give you an edge, you’ll develop skills that will enable you to confidently build and lead your future company to success.
The Start-up and Business Venture postgraduate program attracts a diverse set of students who will come to form your supportive peer group, advisory board, and future network. Meet mentors, funders, and even potential customers and employees. Guest speakers, experts, and entrepreneurs share first-hand experiences, lessons learned, and tell it like it is about starting new businesses and surviving challenges.
Future entrepreneurs, founders-to-be, tech potential investors, and any other person who wishes to be part of this vibrant ecosystem are welcome to join us and get the start-up nation edge, gain leadership skills, executive aptitude, and global perspective necessary to be part of the international high-tech ecosystem.
Key benefits
Instructors
Vanesa Vargas
Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Business Administration in Foreign Languages
Vanesa Vargas is a PhD and assistant professor at the Faculty of Business Administration in foreign languages, where she teaches Entrepreneurship, the European Business Environment and business simulations. She is the Office Manager of the Higher Education and Research in Management of European Universities (HERMES) and past President of the Rotaract Deva Association. She has taken on a key role in organizing the International Conference on Business Excellence and publishing the conference proceedings. Vanesa has strong ties with the entrepreneurial network of FABIZ and it actively contributing to its development.
Cristian Negrutiu
Founding Partner @ Sparking Capital
Cristian Negruțiu is Founding Partner at Sparking Capital, a venture capital fund aiming to help innovative start-ups to scale-up and develop.
Cristian Negrutiu has an extensive managerial experience acquired through various positions in different companies at executive level since year 2000. In the period 2010- 2019 he was Logistics Country Manager for DSV Solutions in Romania. In this capacity, Cristian served as a Board Member, fully responsible for strategy and P&L of his division. He managed more than 500 people and lead several local and regional projects, ranging from IT implementation to capacity expansion.
On the education side, Cristian has a double background, in economics and law, followed by an MBA at University of Sheffield. Currently, he is Associate Professor and PhD student at ASE, with research focused on entrepreneurship and supply chain.
