{"id":10501,"date":"2016-04-26T13:39:35","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T13:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.studentemploymentservices.co.uk\/?p=10501"},"modified":"2016-04-26T14:28:54","modified_gmt":"2016-04-26T14:28:54","slug":"under-24-have-a-great-idea-what-are-you-waiting-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.studentemploymentservices.co.uk\/staging\/3440\/blog\/under-24-have-a-great-idea-what-are-you-waiting-for\/","title":{"rendered":"Under 24? Have a great idea? What are you waiting for!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Catalyst Founders<\/strong>, based in Oxford, has an ambitious target; to invest in 50 young founders over the next 3 years. CF seeks to invest in innate entrepreneurial talent, providing investment, a support structure and a strong network to enable young would-be founders to achieve their entrepreneurial potential.<\/p>\n<p>Stephen Barnett, the founder of CF, is passionate about providing an alternative to traditional graduate careers:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWhen I left university, my commercial options were limited largely to ever-present corporates; there were few alternatives for graduates with a great eye for spotting opportunity and a willingness to take a risk. CF aims to provide a credible alternative to traditional professions by providing an elite, fast-track to entrepreneurial success\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>CF are looking to support the next generation of makers, creators and retailers from across the UK, backing founders that have a passion for their idea and a drive to build a large company.<\/p>\n<p>If you have a great idea, a passion for business and unbridled ambition, you are the right fit for CF. The fund has no specific sector or geographic focus, believing that a diverse set of founders and ideas result in creative destruction across the network.<\/p>\n<p class=\"xmsonormal\">For more information on how to apply, please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.catalystfounders.com\">www.catalystfounders.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catalyst Founders, based in Oxford, has an ambitious target; to invest in 50 young founders over the next 3 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10503,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studentemploymentservices.co.uk\/staging\/3440\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studentemploymentservices.co.uk\/staging\/3440\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studentemploymentservices.co.uk\/staging\/3440\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studentemploymentservices.co.uk\/staging\/3440\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studentemploymentservices.co.uk\/staging\/3440\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10501"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.studentemploymentservices.co.uk\/staging\/3440\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10513,"href":"https:\/\/www.studentemploymentservices.co.uk\/staging\/3440\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10501\/revisions\/10513"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studentemploymentservices.co.uk\/staging\/3440\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.studentemploymentservices.co.uk\/staging\/3440\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studentemploymentservices.co.uk\/staging\/3440\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.studentemploymentservices.co.uk\/staging\/3440\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}