Social enterprise summer internships

Posted by John King on April 30, 2010 under Social Enterprise | Be the First to Comment

This Summer the Student Microfinance & Development Initiative is sending top students to 158 Leading Social Entrepreneurs of the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship around the world to intern.

The internships between June and October on flexible dates will be partly supported by the social entrepreneurs, but the chosen SMDI Fellows are to expect to cover travel expenses and accomodation on their own. Interested students are asked to keep this in mind before applying.

Applicants are to specify one or at most two social enterprises they are interested in working with and the dates of their availability in summer. The Schwab Foundation and SMDI are then going to choose winning applicants and set up the internships with the leading social entrepreneurs.

If you are a student interested in applying to become an SMDI Fellow and join a Schwab Social Entrepreneur over the Summer, please:

Choose a Social Enterprise:

Social Enterprises for Internships

You can find detailed descriptions of the enterprises on

http://www.schwabfound.org/sf/SocialEntrepreneurs/Profiles/index.htm .

Then apply:

by sending in your CV, a cover letter targeted to the one or two social entrepreneurs you are applying to work with and the SMDI Fellow Application Form (if you are not already an SMDI Fellow):

SMDI Fellowship Application Form 

All applications are due until 10 May 2010 and need to be sent to info@smdi.org.uk 

Compare the growth of the top 100 software companies

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This chart shows the growth in revenue for each of the 100 technology companies. They are split into rocket ships (in red) which reach $50 million in annual sales within six years, hot companies (in orange) which take up to 12 years to reach this figure, and slow burners (in blue) companies which take 13 years or more to hit $50 million.

Free design guides for small businesses

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The Design Council have produced a series of great design guides for small businesses, combining practical advice and case studies. The guides include:

• The power of branding
• Finding a designer
• Getting a great website

Help to secure our future by completing our survey

Posted by John King on April 14, 2010 under News | Be the First to Comment

We’ve been working really hard this year to put together some innovative entrepreneurial activities – from running Dragons’ Den and The Apprentice inspired competitions to one to one business guidance and talks from fantastic entrepreneurs.

Now we’d like you to give something back – and you could win a £20 Amazon voucher too!

Simply complete this 5 minute survey and tell us about your experience of our activities. The information you give will be used to improve our programme, and will help us to secure funding for the future.

Oxford Entrepreneurs’ company purchased by Google

Posted by John King on April 13, 2010 under News, Videos | Be the First to Comment

PlinkArt, a company run by two Oxford PhD students and incubated by Oxford Entrepreneurs, have become the first UK company to be purchased by US tech giants Google. Their technology, a mobile visual search system, will be integrated into Google Goggles.

Here at Royal Holloway Entrepreneurs, we are hard at work building our very own incubation centre, so that Royal Holloway students can be the next Google purchase! Check out this video to see Florian & Anil helping to paint the new centre…