The Millennial Millionaire, how entrepreneurs turn their dreams into business by Spinder Dhaliwal

Young entrepreneurs with their energy, drive, confidence and resilience could be the perfect formula for entrepreneurial success. The world will need around half a billion jobs by 2030. Companies cannot provide all these jobs and so encouraging enterprise for the young must be the key.

The Millennial Millionaire enables you to share the experience of the highs and lows of being young and in business. With a foreword from Apprentice star Margaret Mountford and the founder of Cobra Beer, Lord Karan Bilimoria, the book is aimed at university students or young professionals looking to start a business.

Imagine having a £1 million turnover while you’re still under 30. The people featured in this book didn’t just imagine it; they’re working towards it. Through entrepreneurial skill, astounding levels of self-motivation and creativity, they are making the grade. Some of their businesses are traditional, some online and some downright quirky. All of their stories are compelling and inspirational.

This book features young guns that illustrate the entrepreneurial success story including Westminster alumni Sarah Watkinson Yull owner of Yull shoes, and Kristian Else of hallbookers.com. It charts their journey, showing how they started, who inspired them, how they financed their business and, above all, what young wannabes can learn from their stories.

Now, more than ever before, young people want to make it big and this book is clearly and unashamedly aimed at them. Furthermore, it is not based on speculation but is an analysis of real success. It describes examples that really happened and shows you how you can achieve success too. Professor Ken O’Neill, author of Understanding Entrepreneurship commented, ‘This engaging book conveys the excitement, the passion, the pain and the pleasure of starting your own business. If you’ve got the spark, this book will drive you on!’

The book explores issues around young entrepreneurs including their background, their influences, how they financed their business, their experiences of entrepreneurship and the particular issues that confront them as young people in business.

It challenges the role of universities, governments, public and private bodies. It looks at the role of mentors, and the support structure that will encourage young people to successfully start up and develop businesses.

Through entrepreneurial skill, self-motivation and creativity, young entrepreneurs are making the grade. Some of their businesses are traditional, others online. Young entrepreneurs may be part of the answer to societal and economic problems and may provide a new generation of socially and environmentally aware businesses as well as being compelling and inspirational role models.

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Our mission is to support the development of education and student engagement throughout college and universities by championing student enterprise societies and peer-to-peer learning. NACUE started from an extraordinary movement in student entrepreneurship, providing young individuals with a platform to be experimental, creative and inspiring in their approach to enterprise and entrepreneurship, encouraging a bottom-up approach to inspiring the next generation.

Today, we see over 200 enterprise societies, powered by peer-to-peer groups, who are championing the success of young people throughout their interactive programmes by forging collaborative relationships with their institutions to provide greater experience and development opportunities for their peers. Establishing regional links with locals SME’s who are keen to open their doors to emerging talented, proactive and enthusiastic graduates perpetuates this.

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Entrepreneurs are at the very core of NACUE, everything we do is to better the startup and self employment ecosystem. We believe that entrepreneurs will shape the future, and we bolster this through our events, our network and our advocacy.

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Our events offer the young people we work with the opportunity to connect with our wider network, the experts and seasoned entrepreneurs in our community and the chance to be inspired to take the leap of faith into entrepreneurship. These events are attended by students and graduates from universities and colleges up and down the UK, as well as students from across Europe. Student Societies take centre stage at our events, alongside innovators, game changers and trail blazers of the UK startup ecosystem.

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It has been a great pleasure working closely with NACUE. NACUE has supported me both on big and small issues within my role. Without NACUE’s support, Entrepreneurs Durham wouldn’t be where it is today.

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The pleasure of seeing young people start something from nothing and watching them as they’re growing is wonderful. If we hadn’t had NACUE, we couldn’t do a lot of what we’re doing now. I can absolutely, categorically say that.

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I am enjoying it (the enterprise society) a lot, and it’s great to be achieving something real. So often in college we plan to the point of doing the activity but then never actually do it.