Hello and welcome!
My name is Peter Tatischev, and just recently I got awarded a place on the Advanced Diploma in Entrepreneurship programme at Cambridge University's Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning.
As far as I am concerned this is the first year this programme is being delivered, and I thought I'd try to blog about my experience with Cambridge, distance learning, the Judge Business School and entrepreneurial education. Hopefully this might be useful for future students, and maybe even for the people who are delivering this course as a source of feedback.
While my programme payments are being transferred I'll take some time to give a little bit of background about myself to better set the context of the entire blog.
I am an entrepreneur – I've been running a consulting business with my partner for the past 2 years – we provide product management and product marketing consultancy to telcos (mobile and fixed carriers, broadband providers, equipment vendors and the like) in Russia and the CIS countries, and we are also launching a startup of our own which is a "mobile TV service" and this is the project I will be taking forward in the course of the programme (there will be a post with a more detailed description of the project in a while).
I was at the Ignite programme at CfEL in 2008, and it was absolutely amazing and extremely useful, and it was one of the main reasons why I chose the advanced diploma.
Also, I'm considering doing an MBA, and Cambridge is on top of the list of schools I'm going to apply to. However, I see MBA rather as a long-term goal, so I thought the AD could make a good step towards it, and this is another reason.
And on a purely emotional side – studying at Cambridge has always been a dream of mine, last year I tasted it at Ignite, and this year I'm taking it further by doing a real qualification.
Of course I'm not trying to idealize Cambridge here – there certainly were drawbacks during Ignite, and there undoubtedly will be at the advanced diploma. The Ignite feedback form was quite extensive, but still not sufficient to give all the feedback and suggestions we had discussed with fellow students during the programme, so I'll try to do this here in this blog.
The programme is delivered mostly via the distance learning environment, and it's making things even more exciting.
And of course – if you have any questions or just want to talk about things – just drop me an email.
