Michael Quartey: The value of the Cambridge network of entrepreneurs

My name is Michael Quartey, MSt Entrepreneurship, first year student, and my venture is Eczodex. As an entrepreneur, you tend to believe that you’re on this journey alone, and that you’re the only one in the world who’s crazy enough to try to come up with your own ideas to solve problems. And joining this course, it was reassuring to know there are many people interested in entrepreneurship. And it’s great to bounce ideas off a collective group of like-minded peers.

You’re already in the right group. You have a great network of people who are open to creativity, to taking risks, and to embark on a very uncertain journey as we all know, especially the very early stages of a startup. So yeah, the chances of you finding a founding team are much higher by joining a programme of this sort than on any other type of business school. I would encourage anyone who believes that they can do something else to take a step back, come back, study, and then move forward.