Asia-Pacific Student Entrepreneurship Society
Go Faster with ASES
About Us
What is ASES?
The Asia-Pacific Student Entrepreneurship Society (ASES) is a network of student entrepreneurship clubs. Headed by the founding chapter at Stanford University, ASES chapters meet twice annually – once at Stanford and once in a selected Asian destination. These meetings are known as summits and effectively facilitate the formation and sustainment of a strong global network of innovative young people. On campus ASES chapters must run entrepreneurship competitions, educational sessions, networking events, and mentoring programs in accordance with strict guidelines developed at Stanford. ASES currently has chapters at universities in China (Shanghai, Beijing and Zhejiang), Hong Kong, India, Japan, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, the United States (Stanford University), and Canada.
Our Mission
The goal of ASES Macquarie is to provide future leaders in business, technology, and the Asia-Pacific with the tools and network needed to become successful entrepreneurs in the Asia-Pacific Region. This will be achieved through:
1. General club meetings to which all ASES-MQ members have access
2. Competitions
a. Business Plan competition
b. Pitching competition
c. Cross-club/society competitions
3. Educational programs
a. Speaker series on topics related to entrepreneurship
b. Educational workshops on topics related to entrepreneurship
c. ASES-MQ annual retreat, which contains a significant educational aspect
4. Networking programs
a. General networking among ASES-MQ members
b. ASES-MQ sponsored networking events, including an annual retreat, entrepreneurship speed dating events, and attendance at bi-annual ASES summits at Stanford University and another Asia-Pacific host
5. Member resources
a. ASES-MQ seed investment fund
b. ASES-MQ website resources
c. ASES Worldwide internship database
d. ASES-MQ e-Newsletter
We sincerely appreciate your interest in ASES and hope that you will come along to our events, develop some essential business skills, meet new people and commence your journey on the path to success.
Our Vision
The vision of ASES (Asia Pacific Student Entrepreneurship Society) is to create an international entrepreneurship network, focused around the Asia-Pacific region, that helps foster a new generation of entrepreneurs ready to innovate in the ever-changing global markets.ASES is an organization founded around entrepreneurship, and relating to that, business and technology. However, there is a much more important foundation to the ASES vision: ASES is a global community.
That is the vision that drives ASES, the belief that the future is a tremendous network of interacting individuals that are willing to do business and, more importantly, live life together in spite of cultural differences or societal barriers. In that sense, we are both networking in a conventional sense through this organization but we are also building an international community. The only way people will truly interact and understand each other is if they are friends, because friendship is a true social bond, whereas a business network is a bond of utility.
Each and every ASES organization and event is designed around that principle of bringing people together. Events themselves are not the utmost importance but rather the vision behind these programs that we should recognize. ASES as an organization, is not built around its programs, but rather built around our shared vision.
The goal of each ASES university organization is to build a small, tightly knit local community of students. Each ASES nation should bond all those smaller communities into a national community. ASES on an international basis serves to bring the international community together so that each and every member of ASES belongs to a global society of individuals who can see beyond the confines of ethnicity, society or culture.
Interested in becoming a member of ASES Australia? Send us an email to asesmq@gmail.com!
