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SUMMARY:Enterprise Tuesday 2014 - Vision meets reality - Dr Mike Lynch\, O
 BE\, FREng\, DL Founder\, Autonomy and Invoke Capital
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CONTACT:Enterprise Tuesday
DESCRIPTION:This session looks at how the vision needs to meet with realit
 y. The entrepreneur needs to be true and wedded to their beliefs and visio
 n for the business venture\, but also\, to be open to learning and taking 
 feedback. It is important to be flexible with business models in the early
  days. This session demonstrates the importance of entrepreneurial self-aw
 areness for learning and reflection purposes as well as the need for perso
 nal direction\, drive\, persuasion and persistence. Participants will lear
 n about strategy and developing business models to achieve the vision. It 
 will look at the influence of early customers and sales and the role of me
 ntors\, company directors\, etc. in shaping business models.\n\nThe guest 
 speaker is Dr Mike Lynch OBE\, founder of Autonomy and Invoke capital. Dr 
 Lynch has long been regarded as a visionary figure within the technology w
 orld\, described by the Financial Times as "the doyen of European software
 " and by the Sunday Times as "Britain's Bill Gates". He advises the Prime 
 Minister on matters of science policy through the Council on Science and T
 echnology. Dr Lynch founded Autonomy in 1996\, the UK's largest and fastes
 t-growing software company\, with a market capitalisation of $11bn\, and w
 as its CEO for fifteen years. In addition to Autonomy\, Dr Lynch has found
 ed or advised a number of companies ranging from Neurodynamics to Blinkx. 
 He has invested in a number of start-ups\, most recently Featurespace\, an
 d has also advised venture capital and private equity groups such as Apax 
 Partners and the Carlyle Group. Alongside his entrepreneurial career\, Dr 
 Lynch has a number of board seats and advisory roles. He is a non-executiv
 e director of the BBC\, the British Library\, and Cambridge Enterprise. He
  is a council member of the Royal Academy of Engineering and of the Founda
 tion for Science and Technology\, of which he is also a trustee. He is a m
 ember of the advisory board of Tech City's Investment Committee. He is an 
 advisor to the Prince's Trust technology group and a founding investor of 
 Bridges Venturing\, which is a sustainable growth investment firm. During 
 his career\, Dr Lynch has received many awards and accolades. In September
  2012 he was inducted into the Digital Hall of Fame\, alongside Tim Berner
 s-Lee\, Warren East and Stephen Fry. In 2011 he received the Outstanding C
 ontribution award in the UKIT Industry awards and was named Most Influenti
 al Person in UK IT by Computer Weekly. \n\nPlease note this session will t
 ake place at the University of Cambridge’s Department of Engineering.\n\
 n*Interested in attending? Please register at http://www.cfel.jbs.cam.ac.u
 k/programmes/enterprisetuesday/register.html*\n\nRegistration is from 18:0
 0. The lecture starts at 18:30 followed by networking from 20:00.\n\nEnter
 prise Tuesday is a series of FREE evening lectures and networking sessions
  managed and delivered by the Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning (CfEL)\,
  based at the University of Cambridge’s Judge Business School.\n\nThe Ce
 ntre Entrepreneurial Learning (CfEL) is celebrating ten years of spreading
  the spirit of enterprise.\n\n\n\n \n
LOCATION:Department of Engineering\, Lecture Room 0
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