ROCKET PITCH + SUMMER JOB: get support for your business
Two significant events took place at Almaty Management University, significant for the development of the entrepreneurial potential of university students - Rocket Pitch and Summer Job.
Rocket Pitch is an event organized by the School of Entrepreneurship and Innovation in cooperation with the Yerzhan Tatishev Foundation. The essence of the event is to present students startups, achievements and summing up the results of the year.
Rocket Pitch participants submitted 13 interesting projects, from which the jury selected 2 winners:
- Sharip Daniya, a 3rd year student in Marketing with an additional Minor in Entrepreneurship. Her project is a web development and design studio, which is already showing excellent results in sales;
- Batyrbekova Zhaina, a 3rd year student in Marketing with an additional Minor in Entrepreneurship. She developed a music and education project to promote cultural values.
Rocket Pitch winners get the chance to go to the Babson Build summer entrepreneurial school at the world's number one entrepreneurial university, Babson College, Massachusetts, USA.
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Immediately following Rocket Pitch was the Summer Job seasonal business competition, which aims to support and invest in seasonal micro-business start-up initiatives by AlmaU students. Summer Job helps students develop entrepreneurial skills, presentation and public speaking skills, as well as the skills to create and develop their micro-businesses.
The winner of the competition was Timur Tyulegenov, a 2nd year student in Marketing. The essence of Timur's invested business is the delivery of fruit and vegetables in Kokshetau city. His task is to provide the residents of the city with a convenient and high quality service of fruit and vegetables delivery to their homes, which greatly saves time of his customers. Introduction of this segment in delivery sphere needs its own development. The broader perspective of this business is to develop a network which will be distributed in different cities of Kazakhstan.
The judges for Rocket Pitch and Summer Job were current entrepreneurs and experts in their fields:
- Yerkin Tatishev - Co-owner and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Kusto Group
- Meiram Abelkasov - Founder of Kolesa Taxi and JET Sharing electric scooter rental service.
- Akmaral Maksutova - Team Leader of Product Development Team at Kaspi Bank JSC.
- Rustam Maksutov - CEO Business FM, co-owner of Axisa Group
- Thomas Akynov - Entrepreneur, founder of Vegan Fashion KZ brand
- Igor Zabolotskikh - UX/UI Designer, Founder and CEO of YOKO
- Galym Baitimbetov - Founder and Director of AquaPoint
- Botagoz Zhumanova - Human Capital Development Director
- Nursultan Zheksenbin - Entrepreneur, blogger, influencer
- Ulan Usenov - Creator, blogger, chemistry teacher
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The School of Entrepreneurship and Innovation congratulates the winners and participants on their work and hopes that the teams are ready to work on their projects and turn them into real businesses.
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