Students with a Minor in Entrepreneurship will go on internship to Babson College, USA

11 students of the pilot program «Minor - Entrepreneurship» successfully presented their business projects and business ideas within the framework of Rocket Pitch.

Rocket Pitch is a format for presentation of projects and ideas, which is held annually in Babson College. Each student has 18 minutes, 2 minutes for each PowerPoint slides, to quickly and succinctly talk about his business idea.

On April 4, students with a minor in entrepreneurship presented Yerkin Tatishev, Chairman of the Board of Directors of KUSTO Group, №9 rating of the richest businessmen of Forbes Kazakhstan, member of the Board of Trustees of Almaty Management University; Dana Zharikova, president of the Yerzhan Tatishev Foundation; Madina Karsakbayeva, consultant, head of the project «Business Transformation»; Ksenia Yuzhaninova, director of the AlmaU Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation.

The members of jury noted a good preparation on projects at the same time gave a good advice to be find their niche and deal with specific, simple and understandable problems.

Students with Minor in Entrepreneurship presented a variety of projects. For example: Mukhammed Daulet-Kazhy is engaged in the opening of the Center for Certification of Programmers, Nurgisa Token has already launched his startup «Vector School», Ayazhan Kenges proposes the opening of  «BusyHost» business hostel.

For students who received a scholarship from the Yerzhan Tatishev Foundation, the main prize was a trip to Babson College for a summer internship. Its owners were students of the 1st course with a major in Management and minor in Entrepreneurship Almas Toleubayev and Azamat Abitayev, with the project «Balmuzdak.net».

«Balmuzdak.net» is the largest educational portal of Kazakhstan. They help students to choose educational institutions, grants, scholarships, internships, and educational institutions - to find their entrants.

For holders of Rector's grant and a grant from the «Serpin» program, the main prize of Rocket Pitch was a trip to the summer «BootCamp» in Pavlodar. Its owner was Nurgisa Token with the startup «School of vocational guidance «Vector School».

Specialty «Management» with additional trajectory of training «Entrepreneurship» (Minor – Entrepreneurship) was created by the Center for Development of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Almaty Management University in 2017. The mission of the program is teaching students business skills, project management and implementation. The program helps to receive obtaining knowledge and necessary competencies in the field of entrepreneurship. Graduates of the program will have the skill to lead the creation of new companies, work on the development of business in enterprises or continue to work in their own company.