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SUMMARY:Cambridge Postgraduate Diploma in Entrepreneurship 2015 Launch Eve
 nt: Is it always about a bright idea? - Shakil Khan\, investor and advisor
  to Spotify\; Matthew Rock\, DueDil editor-in-chief and co-founder Real Bu
 siness
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DESCRIPTION:*Is entrepreneurship always about having a startlingly origina
 l or bright idea? Or is it about building on strong skills and competencie
 s in the industry sector?*\n\n*Shakil Khan*\, investor and advisor to digi
 tal music service\, *Spotify*\; and founder of *BITCOIN* and other digital
  currencies service\, Coindesk\, will be talking to *Matthew Rock*\, edito
 r-in-chief at *DueDil* and co-founder of *Real Business*\, about what it t
 akes to be a successful entrepreneur at our event on Wednesday 17 Septembe
 r in Cambridge in the context of his extensive experience as an entreprene
 ur and investor.\n\nThere will also be an opportunity to find out more abo
 ut more about the *Postgraduate Diploma in Entrepreneurship* programme off
 ered by Cambridge Judge Business School\, University of Cambridge and to m
 eet the programme team.  \n\nPlease join us for what promises to be a stim
 ulating and relevant event for anyone with entrepreneurial ambitions\, loo
 king to start a business or involved in a startup/SME. \n\n*Register soon 
 to secure your place: http://www.cfel.jbs.cam.ac.uk/programmes/diploma/for
 ms/form_registereventinterest.html*\n\nRefreshments will be provided at th
 e networking from 1pm.\n\n*About Shakil Khan:*\n\nShak is currently Head o
 f Special Projects at Spotify\, where he is also personal advisor to found
 er and CEO Daniel Ek. He has had a number of online businesses in the UK s
 ince 2000\, was part of the founding team at buy.at\, which was acquired b
 y AOL\, and he recently founded CoinDesk\, a bitcoin news site.\n\nHe is a
 lso an Advisor to Horizons Ventures\, the tech investment arm of the Li Ka
 -Shing Foundation. Horizons Ventures have investments in a number of well-
 known tech companies including Facebook\, Waze\, Deepmind and Siri.\n\nSha
 k is an investor in approximately 20 companies including BitPay\, Spotify\
 , Top10\, Duedil\, Yplan and Humin. Shak was also an investor and mentor t
 o Nick D'Aloisio who built and sold Summly\, a news curation app that was 
 sold to Yahoo in March 2013.\n\n*About Matthew Rock:*\n\nMatthew Rock is e
 ditor-in-chief at the technology business DueDil\, whose vision is to orga
 nise the world's private company information. As a founding editor of Real
  Business (the UK's first magazine for entrepreneurs)\, Matthew probably i
 nterviewed and met more entrepreneurs than any other UK journalist. He wri
 tes a column for City AM on entrepreneurship. As a co-founder and communic
 ations director of Caspian Media\, Matthew hosted many high-profile events
  such as the Growing Business Awards and First Women Awards (with the CBI)
 \, as well as working closely with Pinky Lilani OBE on the Asian Women of 
 Achievement awards and Women of the Future programme. He is an ambassador 
 for the British Library's Business & IP Centre.\n\n\n*Contact us:*\n\nNick
 y Reynolds\, Programme Manager\n\nT: +44(0)1223 766900\n\nE: pgdiplomaeven
 ts@jbs.cam.ac.uk \n\nW: http://www.cfel.jbs.cam.ac.uk/programmes/diploma/i
 ndex.html \n\n\nFollow us on Twitter: @CfELCambridge @CambridgeJBS   #CamP
 GDE\n
LOCATION:Lecture Theatre 3\, Judge Business School\, Trumpington Street\, 
 Cambridge CB2 1AG
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