How to build a tech start-up in 2026: from concept to international markets

A five-hour working session from Eligent Club on taking a tech startup from concept to international markets: idea validation, finding and testing a co-founder, MVP and product-market fit, revenue from day one, bootstrapping versus raising, and when to expand abroad. Workshop, panel, networking and two startup pitch slots. Slava Baranovskiy, founder of Eligent Club and entrepreneur in residence at Brunel Business School, runs it. This edition adds a free one-to-one mentoring clinic from 1.30pm to 2.30pm with four Eligent Club mentors, booked in advance and first come first served; the two pitch slots are requested through Eligent Club on LinkedIn. Free, 1pm to 6pm at Westminster Business School on Marylebone Road. The event is filmed. The start time shown above is wrong - it is 1pm, not 4pm. The organiser's Eventbrite listing and its attendee mail of 2 November both give 1pm to 6pm. Why go: the pitch slots and the mentoring clinic make it a working afternoon rather than a talk, which suits people at the idea stage who want their thinking challenged out loud. One speaker covers the whole arc, so expect breadth rather than depth.