Join our Entrepreneurship facilitator, Ezra Carlson, alongside Hertfordshire Graduate MBA, other students, alumni, businesses and distinguished guests, in this quick-fire two-hour digital session as we explore cutting-edge trends and insights that are shaping the future in this important field.

Speaker Name: Ezra Carlson

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Ezra Carlson is a "pracademic" who believes in using evidence-based research as a force for good. He strives to combine knowledge and experience from his STEM, corporate business, and entrepreneurship backgrounds with his academic interests in corporate venture capital, entrepreneurship and social enterprises. Ezra has over 25 years of experience in senior leadership as a management consultant assisting large global multinational organisations with complex transformations, M&A, setting up new businesses, and innovation projects within multiple industries. In parallel with this, Ezra has started and grown three companies and is currently the co-founder of a UK MedTech. He has over a decade of experience serving as a non-executive director, trustee, governor, and other committee roles and is currently the chair of members for the Slough and East Berkshire Multi-Academy Trust. Ezra is a senior lecturer in Strategic Management at the University of Hertfordshire Business School, a visiting academic at Cranfield, and a Fellow of the Institute of Leadership.

Session Information: 

• Intro and Ezra's background as an entrepreneur with varying successes
• Breakout into groups: What are the top 3 reasons why start-ups fail?
• Discuss the research behind why start-ups fail
• The developing story around Ezra's latest venture (an early-stage UK MedTech), what has he done before, what has worked, or not?
• Sources of entrepreneurial finance: Angels, VCs, Accelerators, Grants, equity, and debt financing
• Breakout into groups: How are you going to use your business skills to help you develop new ideas?
• Discussion on developing your business model
• Q&A