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Why student entrepreneurship is the best education you will ever receive

Published: December 1, 2025 at 1:31 pm

Author: Oliver Clayden, founder, Bizcardy

If you had met me in my first year of university, you would have found a perfectly ordinary student – half-awake in lectures – but two years later I found myself in the entrepreneurship hub, convinced I was the next Jeff Bezos or Mark Zuckerberg.

The only thing missing was a turtleneck!

That was the day I discovered that attention to detail is not just an optional life skill. It is vital, especially when you are trying to build a business while also working through a degree in a maths-based subject.

So what went wrong – and what have I learned since?

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