Entrepreneurs International Challenge (EPIC) is a four-day international entrepreneurship competition hosted annually by the LSE Entrepreneurs (http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=33405154307 ), bringing together bright, ambitious students from 50+ universities across the world to develop and enhance their entrepreneurial skills. Inspired by the Apprentice, the two stage competition tests students on their Sales, Negotiation, Marketing, Strategy and Social enteprise skills in an entrepreneurial context.

The competition has two stages:
1) preliminary challenge round through which we shortlist the 10 finalists. The 2009 finals included teams from USA and Canada.
2) the finals week, involving a series of informative talks of well-known entrepreneurial leaders, workshops and challenges. The 2009 Finals took place in London with McGill University from Canada emerging as the Winners. You can find pictures and videos of the Finals on this page.

The event has been running for 5 years, attracting well-known entrepreneurial leaders and inspirational speakers to share their experiences with students from across the world. For example:
Karan Bilimoria, CEO of Cobra Beer
Charles Dunstone, CEO of Carphone Warehouse
Caprice Bourret, CEO of By Caprice Lingerie
Michelle Dewberry, winner of 2nd series The Apprentice UK, now running her own consultancy firm and creator of www.chiconomise.com

Bur now as EPIC 2009 draws to a close, LSE Entrepenurs would like to announce the launch of EPIC 2010! It is going to be bigger and better and you do not want to miss out. Finals week is running in the week commencing 22nd February 2010.

Applications open on 30th November 2009 for teams to apply (4 people per team)

For any more information please visit our website www.lse-epic.com or e-mail in if you have any queries

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Entrepreneurs International Challenge (EPIC) is a four-day international entrepreneurship competition hosted annually by the LSE Entrepreneurs (http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=33405154307 ), bringing together bright, ambitious students from 50+ universities across the world to develop and enhance their entrepreneurial skills. Inspired by the Apprentice, the two stage competition tests students on their Sales, Negotiation, Marketing, Strategy and Social enteprise skills in an... (read more)