Venture Up 2016 - By Venture Up

Venture Up Goes On!

06:35AM Fri 29/01/16 on Venture Up 2016 -

Hi Massive Supporters! 

The campign is over and we missed our mark by a fair wedge! But we were looking for a fair wedge to start with! 

We went for some personal approaches in the final days of the campaign, to make up the chunky end of the campaign. People love Venture Up and give a lot, but we couldn't reach the $25,000 mark.  

We are stoked to have had such messages of support from you all and the pledges of support, large and small. We have banked those in our hearts, and thank you dearly for the push, the cash and the general Awesome Karma you sent to Venture Up. 

We won't be taking your cash however (it's all or nothing with these things) and unfortunately we won't be fulfilling the rewards. We will still accept Awesome Karma, so keep sending that! 

Funding programmes like Venture Up is the largest challenge we have in running them and we are lucky to have the support of Ministry of Youth, Wellington City Council and Victoria University alongside everything the Young Enterprise Trust, our mentor and speaker community and people like you put into the programme. 

For that we are extremely grateful. 

Please keep up to date with our blog here >  http://www.ventureup.co.nz/blog/

We have just celebrated the halfway mark in the Venture Up 2016 programme and the eight teams gave some great presentations to our community of sponsors last night. Tune in for the grand final showcase on Feb 16 - let us know if you want to come along, it's limited seating but we have seats for the people we love. 

And that's you. Thank you very much. For everything. 

Always Venture Up. 

Nick, Liv, Lingy and the Venture Up Crew.

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10 days! PLEDGE it up!

11:39AM Tue 19/01/16 on Venture Up 2016 -

Dear Backers...

It's getting down to the wire and we need to PLEDGE IT UP 

To help with that we have brainstormed some great new rewards! See here...

• Venture Up pushups 
• Dunk-A-Founder 
• Venture Up cake for morning tea! 
• Or for something more serious - try a Lean Startup Workshop for those aspiring entrepreneurs, students and busiensses looking to improve the way they innovate and execute in 2016. But one for a school, business, startup you love!  

It's humbling to have your support, please back us into the home stretch. Let's do this!

Yours,Nick, Liv, Lingy and the Venture Up'rs. 

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It's Live - almost!

08:46PM Fri 08/01/16 on Venture Up 2016 -

Happy New Year! 

Venture Up 2016 begins January 11. Forty of the best young minds from around NZ are on their way to Wellington over the next two days, and will spend six weeks forging a future in creating smart growth businesses and commercialising ideas. 

Thanks to those awesome pledgers who brough the festive cheers to support us! Ho Ho Ho to you! 

We are still a way off our target for supporting these amazing individuals to realise their potential and would love you to share the Venture Up campaign as widely as you can. 

2016 is going to be an amazing year - for 40 young up and comers especially - and we will keep you appraised with updates of how Venture Up is launching into it as we go! 

Please share and challlenge your friends, whanau and other fabulous folk to support this group of incredible young people.

Thanks! 

Nick, Oliviah and Lingy and all the Venture Up'rs. 

P.S. Travel safe you lot! See you on Sunday!

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