From China to Birmingham: Reflecting on my enterprising journey

Hi, my name is Man Wang, a third year student from school of Mathematics, studying Mathemat
ics with Business Management in the University of Birmingham.

I started my business plan journey when first enrolled in university. At Jinan University in China, I joined a Business Elite Challenge to figure out a business model and design a mobile app for a mobile health company.I contributed ideas for functions of the app and the cash flow for the business model.

When I came to the University of Birmingham, I also actively participated many enterprising events, including speaking of many famous entrepreneurs and senior managers, workshops, coffee talks, etc. The most fantastic experience in my opinion was the B Start-Up Boot Camp with Virgin in my second year. It was about helping solve loneliness and increasing social interactions among students with different backgrounds.

Last summer, I also attended a three–week programme called Launch Pad last summer held by B-Enterprising team of Careers Network.This event inspired me to think and I suddenly came up with many ideas.

I also attended another three-day B-startup event in the Innovation campus in Birmingham city centre. I met a great deal of professional people and discussed solutions about health industry with another four members. I provided many ideas based on the Chinese health industry knowledge and pointed out some aspects they missed.

Then in my third year, I joined Bank of England’s technology competition about using big data and machine learning in 2016.Later I joined the student mobile app competition held by Innovation center at University of Birmingham and I was proceeded to the final stage to deliver a presentation.It was a very unforgettable competition and I learned many new things: using proto.io to design app, my potential to deliver enjoyable presentations, doing well under pressure, different ways to present ideas…

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