Nick Wheeler, the Founder and Owner of Charles Tyrwhitt, will speak at the Windsor Auditorium at 6pm on Thursday 27th January 2011.
Nick founded Charles Tyrwhitt Shirts in 1986, while studying geography at Bristol University. The company has grown rapidly in the UK, the USA and Germany with sales of £50m last year. Nick is a non-executive director and shareholder in The White Company, founded by his wife, a mail order and retail company selling household goods.
Nick will speak alongside David Hathiramani, a Computer Science graduate who co-founded the online tailor A Suit That Fits.
David quickly became an IT manager after he graduated. In 2006, David met up with old school friend Warren and together they realised that, in combining their love of suits, passion for business, and complementary skills sets, they could reinvent the way that people think about ordering a suit. Using unique web technology, the service gives customers the flexibility to design and completely customise their suit.
All are welcome at this free event, which will be followed by a wine reception.
Join us for the next Startup Wednesday at 2pm on 3rd February in Arts Building S21 (second floor). We’ll be focusing on Sales and Negotiation skills. You’ll be able to practise trying to cut a deal with another student, too!
In this 125th anniversary year of the founding of Royal Holloway by a Victorian entrepreneur, the first Thomas Holloway Entrepreneurship Lecture will examine the career path two entrepreneurs followed upon leaving University. Nick Wheeler, a Geography graduate, will explain how he turned a student hobby and £7,000 into Charles Tyrwhitt, a major international fashion brand, giving him a personal worth of over £30m. David Hathirami, a Computer Science graduate, will describe how he built the internet upstart, A Suit That Fits.
Hosted by Royal Holloway Entrepreneurs and the School of Management.
All welcome. Admission free. No booking necessary. Followed by a wine reception in the Windsor Building Foyer.
Kelvin is the CEO and founder of FoodCycle. Before starting FoodCycle, he worked for the award winning social enterprise, MyBnk which develops young people’s financial and enterprise literacy.
FoodCycle combines young volunteers, surplus food and a free kitchen space to create nutritious meals and positive social change in the community. Food retailers throw out millions of tons of edible food every year due to supply overstock. The aim of FoodCycle is to redirect this food so it can be used to cook nutritious meals for people in the local community that do not have access to healthy foods for a variety of reasons, such as lack of income or knowledge of healthy nutrition.
This podcast is from the Royal Holloway Entrepreneurs Get Inspired! event on 20th January 2011.
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Join us for the next Startup Wednesday at 2pm on 26th January in Arts Building S21 (second floor). We’ll be looking at legal issues for new businesses.
Royal Holloway Entrepreneurs present the RHUL Apprentice Challenge. Based on famous BBC TV show ’The Apprentice’, our challenge is creating a unique opportunity for students to get into the shoes of entrepreneurs without any real life risk, but with unlimited possibilities to prove and try their skills in the real business market – where everything matters – creativeness, problem solving, innovative decisions, critical thinking, team work and most important – passion for enterprise.
Registration is open until the 18th of January, successful entrants will be notified via email on the 21st of January and the competition starts on the 23rd!16 Students will be put through 3 different entrepreneurial challenges, to test their abilities in finance, selling, promoting, presenting, negotiating, team work, leading and many others! Each task will be monitored and evaluated in order to decide who will be the Winners of ‘Royal Holloway Apprentice Challenge 2012′.
Sixteen individuals, four teams, over two weeks, one team to go further… To London Apprentice Finals!
Robin Bennett graduated from Royal Holloway in 1992 with a degree in Modern Languages. (In)famous for starting a business selling sandwiches and BBQ food on campus, since then he has started eight separate companies – each for less than £5000. His most successful company, Aktuel Translations, combines his love of language with his positive attitude towards turning the things he loves doing into a career.
This podcast is from the Royal Holloway Entrepreneurs Get Inspired! event on 13th January 2011, and features the unique story of a modern language entrepreneur, as well as expert insights into the translation industry and hints and tips on finding work as an employee or as a freelancer.
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This highly successful programme, for enterprising students, has been running for five years. It is free, but limited to the first sixty who enrol (with a refundable booking deposit). An intensive, fun and challenging three-day programme using speakers, team games and business simulations. Come along and:
• develop your enterprising spirit
• communicate more effectively
• get support for your ideas
• hear from inspiring entrepreneurs
• add value to your personal pitch and CV
• build your network and job potential
“An outstanding experience for me” Atta Behravanfar, an engineering student, Kingston University
“Bright Futures was a big confidence builder” ” Jenny Harmer, an english student, Royal Holloway
London Startups is a discovery tool for London based technology startups, VCs, meetups, conferences and coworking spaces. It’s a great way to see who the key people are in the scene and follow them on Twitter!
Best of all, I feature on the ‘Top 500 Most Influential’ list
Royal Holloway Entrepreneurs’ founding patron, Professor Alec Reed CBE, was made a Knight Bachelor by the Queen in her New Years Honours.
Sir Alec (as we will be affectionately calling him) received the prestigious honour for his services to business and charity. He founded The Big Give, an online donations site supporting 7,681 charities, in October 2007 to help proactive philanthropists donate intelligently. A generous philanthropist and entrepreneur, Sir Alec previously founded the Reed Foundation which funds The Big Give, making it free to all users.
Sir Alec is also the Founder of Reed Specialist Recruitment, one of the largest recruitment solution providers in the country with over 400 branches and reed.co.uk, Europe’s largest commercial job website.
Sir Alec will return the Royal Holloway on 17th March 2011 to speak at our Get Inspired event. If you’d like to meet him (he is very friendly) then just come to our event which begins at 6pm!
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Royal Holloway Entrepreneurs present the RHUL Apprentice Challenge. Based on famous BBC TV show ’The Apprentice’, our challenge is creating a unique opportunity for students to get into the shoes of entrepreneurs without any real life risk, but with unlimited possibilities to prove and try their skills in the real business market – where everything matters – creativeness, problem solving, innovative decisions, critical thinking, team work and most important – passion for enterprise.
Royal Holloway Entrepreneurs’ founding patron, Professor Alec Reed CBE, was made a Knight Bachelor by the Queen in her New Years Honours.