Win £1000 for your idea for a business, social enterprise or other project! Students (singly or in teams) will compete to win £1000 by pitching to our panel of top entrepreneurs in this exciting event. View our video of last years' winner! […]
Royal Holloway Entrepreneurs are the first ever NACUE Society of the Week!
This prestigious new award is given to the UK society that has acheived the most to promote entrepreneurship at their insitution – and we are the first winners.
Victoria Lennox, CEO of the National Consortium of University Entrepreneurs said, “Royal Holloway Entrepreneurs has already secured its place as one of the strongest societies in the UK. They have engaged students with a range of interests – from internet to creative enterprises – and embraced social media marketing. The future holds great things for this new society. Watch out Cambridge and Oxford!”
Here’s a photo of Jack accepting the award from Matt Smith, NACUE Groups Director. Well done to all the team!
The first term is nearly over, but we’ve still a last talk for 2009 and some other useful things, before everyone heads out for a well deserved break. So don’t leave yet, and join us this week for our great Thursday event.
So, what have we got for you this week?
Business Clinic Tuesday, 10am at Careers in Horton
Do you need one to one advice about a business idea? Do you already have a business and need help running it? Is there something you are not sure about?
Come to our drop-in advice surgery, Business Clinic, and receive individual guidance from an experienced adviser. Business Clinic runs every Tuesday from 10am-11am in the Careers Centre, Horton Building. You can book a slot by telephoning Careers on 01784 443073, from 9.30am onwards on the day you wish to come, or just turn up.
Hermione Way, founder of Newspepper.com and Techfluff.tv will be our last speaker of 2009, gracing the stage of the Moore Building Lecture. Well-known on the UK tech scene, Hermione is renowned as a presenter, reporter and tech entrepreneur.
She has also recently appeared in the London Nude Tech calendar in support of TakeHeart India, put together by Milo Yiannopoulos from TechCrunch – proving that tech people are not all unattractive geeks!
So come along this Thursday and bring all your friends!
Bright Ideas Competition Deadline December 11th, 5pm – Online
Do you have a bright idea for a new or improved service or product, or a social enterprise or project? Put your ideas on paper and compete with your peers. You don’t need any formal business knowledge and you can enter on your own or as part of a team.
It’s simple – come up with a BRIGHT IDEA, apply and you could win one of:
7 prizes of £1000
16 prizes of £250
Plus an additional £250 for the best healthcare idea.
The deadline for applications is 5pm December 11th. Enter via the Westfocus website.
If you need advice about entering the competition, do contact John King.
We hope to see you all one last time this year, before everyone heads off for the holidays!
We’re joined by James King, the Managing Director at Find Invest Grow (FIG), for a talk about what FIG can do for your ideas!
FIG offers a pragmatic new approach to investing in young entrepreneurs. FIG works with young entrepreneurs, specifically undergraduates and graduates of the past five years, to see them crystallise their ideas, support them through the development of their business plans and introduce them to suitable investors.
FIG offers these suitable investors, known as FIGureheads, access to our unique website to browse and precisely filter investment opportunities that are of interest to them with a view to investing themselves or to offer their expertise as part of a management team.
Business Startup is the UK’s biggest show for anyone starting a business or expanding a business. With hundreds of seminars and exhibitors, one-to-one advice and networking, it’s the perfect opportunity to find all the recession-defying tools and information to help your business thrive. What’s more, it’s completely free.
The Prysm Group’s flagship exhibition has never been so relevant or crucial to British business as it is today. That’s why it’s bigger and better than ever, with more speakers, more exhibitors, more seminars, more workshops, more advice and, of course, more opportunities.
Britain needs business and business needs you, and there is no better way to start learning the secrets of the trade than from the experts themselves. So why not come to the event circled in every entrepreneur’s diary.
Next Week
Next Week, we’ve got Hermione Way coming over here for our second part of Start It! University Entrepreneurs. I won’t tell you too much at this point in time, but definitely check out the Founder, and check our Website and your inbox for our mail about next week.
We all use Twitter extensively at Royal Holloway Entrepreneurs. It’s important in many ways – to keep up with the latest news, to keep in touch with colleagues, and to find the solutions to problems at short notice. But it is pretty confusing to get started!
If you want to start using Twitter, set up an account first and then ‘follow’ our members. For an introduction aimed at beginners and hints and tips for advanced users, read this post by Guy Kawasaki.
Wow! What a week! We hope you all enjoyed our Launch Party in Crosslands, and the Workshop for Sales & Negotiations Workshop. But Global Entrepreneurship Week is not over yet!
We’re joined by Matt Hosanee from Sun Startups Essentials and James Proud from Giglocator, the location-based live music and ticketing service, for an inspiring session about entrepreneurs in the digital age.
Matt Hosanee (Sun Microsystems)
Matt Hosanee is a senior technologist, strategist & evangelist for Sun Microsystems. He is responsible for growing the market across Europe, Middle-East and Africa with the startup and emerging business program.
With a Computer Science background, Matt is a 12-year veteran of Sun Microsystems, and is based out of the company’s United Kingdom HQ.
His expertise in technology adoption, social platforms, developer communities, and architecture scalability has made him a frequent speaker around the world. Matt can be found at entrepreneurial and technology events, but also lectures at leading universities across Europe including Oxford University,England, KTH Royal Institute of Technology,Sweden & the Technical University of Berlin.
James Proud (GigLocator.com)
James is the Founder and CEO of GigLocator.com. James is also responsible for the design and development processes of the site and related properties. Prior to founding GigLocator, as a designer and developer he worked with companies such as Coca-Cola and Universal Music creating web presences for some of their live music events and artists. Teaching himself code at a young age, moving onto freelancing for companies and other start-ups; a natural progression into his start-up GigLocator.
A definite must for everyone who is interested in doing anything even remotely related with technology.
Ok, I’d recommend you sit down, because the rest of this newsletter will blow you away!
It’s Global Entrepreneurship Week, and we at Royal Holloway Entrepreneurs have got loads of events, workshops and talks planned for you!
Global Entrepreneurship Week, is a celebration of entrepreneurial flair, innovation, expertise and accomplishment. Supported by Prime Minister Gordon Brown and US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton, the week features a series of events to inspire and educate all members of our communities, and Royal Holloway Entrepreneurs wouldn’t want you to feel left out.
Interested in getting involved with Global Entrepreneurship Week, but not sure how? Want to meet the Royal Holloway Entrepreneurs team face to face? Fancy a free drink?
We’ll be giving away Global Entrepreneurship Week merchandise and free drinks to the first 50 people to come to our launch party in Crosslands and give us their details. Pick up one of our leaflets from the Careers Centre or Crosslands for details.
With live music from Undergraduated, the Royal Holloway Entrepreneurs team will be on hand to tell you about all our activities for the week. You can also sign up for any of the events there and then.
Whether you want to start a new business, achieve a high salary or just get what you want in life (whilst making sure other people are happy), you will need to be able to sell yourself or your product in an attractive, effective manner. This workshop teaches you the critical sales and negotiation skills required to achieve this using the ‘MarketPlace’ game.
Based on a real-life online restaurant reservation business, MarketPlace aims to provide a new and exciting way of teaching entrepreneurial skills at all levels. The game focuses on key marketing concepts: features, benefits, needs and objectives.
Participants are divided in 2 groups. One group are the ’sellers’; and the other group are the ‘purchasers’. The sellers then make their pitch, elicit needs and encounter objections from the purchasers. The two teams then swap roles and experience the opposite side of the transaction. The game takes about an hour to play.
To secure your place, please book in the Careers Centre.
Interested in the process of starting a business? Want to develop your team working and commercial awareness skills? In this workshop, teams of students race to develop a business plan against the clock. You’ll learn key business terms, make hundreds of critical decisions and learn to cope with unexpected events.
Book your place in the Careers Centre.
4. Startupslive! Networking Event This event has been cancelled due to circumstances outside of our control. Apologies for any inconvenience caused.
Find out what you need to do to win Bright Ideas at this free session:
Develop an existing idea
Come up with a new idea
Find partners to work with
Complete your application
Register for this event at: www.westfocus.org.uk/entrepreneurship
We’re joined by Matt Hosanee from Sun Startups Essentials and James Proud from Giglocator, the location-based live music and ticketing service, for an inspiring session about entrepreneurs in the digital age.
A definite must for everyone who is interested in doing anything even remotely related with technology.
A packed week! So join us at these events, it’s not like it’s gonna cost you something
Secure your place at the prestigious BioCity in Nottingham for the 2010 Bio-Entrepreneur School.
The school will equip and support entrepreneurial people start and grow a business in the lifescience, medical, bioscience and biotechnology sector. It will lay foundations for an entrepreneurial career in this fast growing sector by taking you through an intense three-day programme delivered by seasoned entrepreneurs and business consultants.
Reading week is over, and we’re back too! After the huge success of the Do It! workshop, we’re back with some great Start It! talks.
Start It! University Entrepreneurs (part 1) with Charles Radclyffe
Join us this Thursday for our first talk in a mini series of two, with University Entrepreneurs, this week: Charles Radclyffe
Charles set up his first business during his gap year and ran it while he was studying Law at Trinity College, Cambridge. By the time he was 23, Titan Computers was turning over more than £250,000 a year and he was featured on BBC News alongside Yo Sushi founder Simon Woodroffe. He then sold the business and went on to work as a turnaround professional spearheading the sale of an online marketing company to the UK’s largest direct marketing business.
Charles now consults for some of the world’s top 10 leading banks and as a Project Manager specialises in the implementation of regulatory change projects in the financial services industry.
His latest pastime is preparing a classic VW Beetle to embark on the ultimate road trip, travelling through 100 countries, driving over 80,000km and seeking out interesting charities and social enterprise projects along the way.
Do you have a bright idea for a new or improved service or product, or a social enterprise or project? Put your ideas on paper and compete with your peers. You don’t need any formal business knowledge and you can enter on your own or as a part of a team.
The Bright Ideas competition allows you to win £1000 for your business idea! But no worries, there’s more than just the one price of £1000, there’s a grand total of 20 prizes to be won, plus a special healthcare prize. This means, you’ve got better odds than at our Dragons’ Den Event!
Yes! A whole week dedicated to Entrepreneurs all around the world. As you might know, Global Entrepreneurship Week is coming up (16-22. November 2009), and we’ve got great plans. I would highly recommend checking out a page dedicated to Royal Holloway Entrepreneurs in the Founder (released this week) and some flyers in Careers. You never know what you might find.
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Matt Hosanee is a senior technologist, strategist & evangelist for Sun Microsystems. He is responsible for growing the market across Europe, Middle-East and Africa with the startup and emerging business program.
Ok, I’d recommend you sit down, because the rest of this newsletter will blow you away!
Secure your place at the prestigious BioCity in Nottingham for the 2010 Bio-Entrepreneur School.
Start It! University Entrepreneurs (part 1) with Charles Radclyffe