Million Makers Competition

Posted by on October 29, 2010 under Competitions, Events | Be the First to Comment

What is Million Makers? It’s a national campaign to raise the £1million towards the £40 million this year that The Prince’s Trust needs to continue its work with some of the most disadvantaged young people across the UK.

Use your entrepreneurial skills to win three weeks’ work experience at a top firm and tickets to a star- studded event.

We need a team of Royal Holloway Students to participate in the competition! Its open to everybody!

If you’ve got a great money making idea, join University Million Makers and you could

  • set up your own mini-enterprise
  • improve your CV
  • network with local and national employers
  • be mentored by a successful business person
  • raise money for a worthwhile cause
  • win work experience at a top firm

Please contact cristina.lopez@royalhollowayentrepreneurs.com if you’re interested in taking part, deadline November 5th

Jack Lenox (eNovella) podcast

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Jack Lenox is a ‘CodePoet’, student and founder of eNovella and Bold Media, as well as the Founding President of Royal Holloway Entrepreneurs and the creator of The Founder newspaper.

Here is his talk from our Get Inspired! event on 28 October 2010.

Charlie Wardle (Climb Your Mountain) podcast

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Charlie Wardle is the Founder and General Manager of Climb Your Mountain. He is a qualfied Chartered Accountant, has an MBA from Cranfield School of Management, is qualified in Marketing and has over 12 years business and commercial experience at a senior level.

Here is a recording of him talking at our Get Inspired! event on 28 October 2010.

David Langer (GroupSpaces) podcast

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David is the CEO and Founder of GroupSpaces, the world’s leading student society management software.

Here is a recording of him talking at our Get Inspired! event on 14 October 2010.

£1,000 Shell LiveWIRE Grand Ideas Awards

Posted by on October 28, 2010 under Competitions | Be the First to Comment

If you’re aged 16-30 and need funding to get your new business idea or project off the ground, the Shell LiveWIRE Grand Ideas Awards offers up to to 6 x £1,000 prizes every month to the most innovative ideas submitted by new businesses (in their first 12 months of trading).

You’ve got until the last day of each month to apply for the £1,000 Grand Ideas Awards.

Video: David Langer (GroupSpaces) on product & customer development, marketing and raising finance

Posted by on October 26, 2010 under Videos | Be the First to Comment

Ideas & Product Development

Customer Development & Marketing

Raising Finance

Pitching to Investors

Entrepreneurs Exhibition and Deborah Meaden talk, 17th November

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Entrepreneurs Exhibition – The E2 Live at Excel London, 17th November

The E2 is one of the largest gatherings of British Entrepreneurs, all of whom want to assist you with your business & your entrepreneurial journey and let you in on their secrets!

With a wide choice of speakers, seminars and workshops, there’s something for everbody, don’t miss out! Check out what’s on at www.thee2live.com

Rajeeb Dey, founder of Enternships together with NACUE have been kind enough to offer 50 free tickets, which you can secure by going to: http://enternships.com/promo/nacue_london

They’re going fast, so secure your ticket today!

In addition, that evening the British Library is holding an ‘Ingenious Britons: Question Time for Entrepreneurs‘ event, featuring Deborah Meaden, Dragons’ Den investor and entrepreneur, Brent Hoberman, co-founder of lastminute.com, Cath Kidston, founder of Cath Kidston Ltd and Tom Bewick, Chief Executive of Enterprise UK. Tickets cost £7.50, go to http://www.bl.uk/bipc/workevents/questiontime.html to secure your ticket!

If you have any questions about the either of these events, email me at president@royalhollowayentrepreneurs.com

Get Inspired! Photos from our guest entrepreneur speaker series

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Starring:

David Langer (Groupspaces)
Emma-Jane Parkes (SquidLondon)

Slides from Startup Wednesday 1: Introduction & Team Building

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Slides also available on slideshare.

Join us for the next Startup Wednesday at 2pm on 10th November in Arts Building S21 (second floor). We’ll be looking at creative thinking techniques to help you analyse problems and generate innovative solutions which may turn into business opportunities.

How to optimise your website for search engines

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Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is the term for a collection of techniques used to ensure that your website achieves as much traffic as possible, by ranking highly on searches from Google and other search engines. SEO is an industry in its own right, but there is much that you can do for free, yourself, to improve your website’s ranking.

Read this Seedcamp blog post by Andrew Hunter, Qype General Manager, on the 5 SEO tools he couldn’t live without.