New Royal Holloway Entrepreneurs promo video

Posted by on February 12, 2010 under Videos | Be the First to Comment

Featuring Surinder Arora. This video was filmed at one of our regular ‘Start It!’ guest entrepreneur sessions in 2010.

BBC to screen social enterprise series

Posted by on February 11, 2010 under News, Social Enterprise, Videos | Be the First to Comment

BBC World News will be launching this weekend an 8-part series on social entrepreneurs around the globe.  Alvin’s Guide to Good Business will follow financial expert Alvin Hall as he visits a different social entrepreneur each week.  He’ll look at business models, impact, and the challenges of scaling.  Featured organizations include Riders for HealthIDE-IndiaMarine Stewardship CouncilApopoPartners in HealthFriends InternationalCamfed andKiva. The Skoll Foundation partnered with RockhopperTV on the series.

BBC World News is available via satellite and cable TV (it kicks off on Saturday at 0830 GMT and is repeated Sunday 14th at 1430 and 2130 GMT). The programme is also available via the BBC World News iPhone App and online.

See Michael Bayler live!

Posted by on December 16, 2009 under Videos | Be the First to Comment

Michael Bayler is an innovation strategist and futurist who knows what happens next in marketing, branding, media and technology. He impressed Florian so much at a Sun Startups event that he invited him to speak at Royal Holloway on January 21st.

For a preview of Mike in action, take a peek at this video from Sun.

Member interviews

Posted by on December 7, 2009 under People, Videos | Be the First to Comment

If you were at the last Start It! event, you may have seen John clutching a Flip camera and interviewing some of our members. Here’s the results!

Elaine Mostert, Creative Director & Management student

Darren Paskell, Computer Science student

David Valoczky, Modern Languages student

Praj Bhat, Biological Sciences PhD student

Adrian Bulley, Economics student

Fareed Patel, Economics student

NACUE Christmas video

Posted by on December 4, 2009 under Videos | Be the First to Comment

Bonus points for the first member who spots our Jack!

One more time in 2009!

Posted by on November 30, 2009 under Competitions, Events, News, Videos | Be the First to Comment

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.

Start It! University Entrepreneurs (part 2)
Thursday, 6pm at MBLT
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=190131494786

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!

Clinton endorses Global Entrepreneurship Week

Posted by on November 4, 2009 under News, Videos | Be the First to Comment

As if we weren’t already really looking forward to Global Entrepreneurship Week, 16-22 November 2009, here comes something to crank up the excitement even further. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has recorded a video for the Kauffman Foundation endorsing the week.

We’ll be posting all of our events for the week on our website and we invite you to come to all of them. Plus, we’re just putting the finishing touches to our amazing launch party – make sure you are signed up to our email newsletter to get an invite!

Are you the next Bill Gates?

Posted by on November 2, 2009 under Competitions, Videos | Be the First to Comment

If you think you are, enter this competition to win approx £3,500 worth of tuition
fees, a Toshiba laptop, a prestigious summer 2010 placement with XMA, and the services of a mentor for your first year at University! Watch the video, presented by Hermione Way – who will be speaking at Royal Holloway in November – to find out more.

Dragons intro videos

Posted by on October 18, 2009 under News, Videos | Be the First to Comment

After numerous requests, here are the introductory videos that we played for our dragons.

Mark Blythe:

Oliver Mennell:

Ania Gavel:

Pitching in an elevator

Posted by on September 22, 2009 under Videos | Be the First to Comment

Hermione Way, founder of Techfluff takes elevator pitches to their natural conclusion – in an elevator, of course (a lift to our UK viewers). Check out the latest video from her tech blog.