How to start a business while at university: tips from the students who did it

The Covid-19 pandemic has vastly altered the traditional nine-to-five office job. With many new industries emerging, graduates around the world are beginning to make the most of the changing landscape to develop their own business ideas.

Building your own business as a university student requires huge amounts of creativity, resilience and vision, but it can be an extremely rewarding path.

Below, three successful entrepreneurs share their top tips and guidance for starting a business at university.

1. Make the most of your university’s resources to develop your idea

Many universities have their own entrepreneurship centre or venture studios, which can help students develop their ideas and access resources and mentoring.

For example, Hadeel Ayoub came to the UK from the Middle East as a mature international student to do a postgraduate degree in computational arts at Goldsmiths, University of London. While there, she founded BrightSign, a company that develops assistive technology such as the BrightSign Glove, which translates the wearer’s sign language into texted speech.

For Hadeel, the support available for entrepreneurial students at Goldsmiths made all the difference.

“Goldsmiths supported me in learning the fundamentals of becoming an entrepreneur, like how to register your company, how to do your taxes, and how to create projections and use them to build a business model,” says Hadeel, speaking at the THE Student Festival: UK in October 2021. “I was also matched with a mentor, who gave me invaluable advice and guidance,” she adds.

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/student/advice/how-start-business-while-university-tips-students-who-did-it

Christin Hakim

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