Posted by John King on February 1, 2011 under Competitions, Royal Holloway Businesses | 
Royal Holloway students have won several awards at the national Startup Smart competition run by author and entrepreneur, Robin Bennett. The prizes will include help with set up costs, including help approaching investors, professional planning to get the company off the ground, one year’s mentoring, hands-on support when required and access to business networking.
The winners include:
- Study Buddy, a peer skills exchange run by Royal Holloway Entrepreneurs’ President Luka Blackman-Gibbs
- VEO eyewear, a social enterprise brand run by Louis Mech
- Michaela Belony’s natural haircare products for Afro-Caribbean people
Also shortlisted was last years’ President Jack Lenox, for eNovella, the online literary magazine and social network.
Congratulations to all our winner, who won more than half the prizes! If you want to emulate them then visit the Royal Holloway competitions page.
Posted by John King on October 29, 2010 under Podcasts |
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.
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Posted by John King on September 14, 2010 under Events, Royal Holloway Businesses |
If you are missing Jack Lenox (our founding President) already, then you’ll be pleased to hear that his new project, eNovella, is appearing as part of the SW11 Literary Festival in South London. If you’re nearby, you can pop along and see him at the following events:
• 16th September, 7pm – Bobbie Darbyshire and Nicholas Royle – So you want to be a writer? Making the pages turn – two fiction writers spill the beans on how it’s done. Come and talk to them about writing and pitching your book.
• 19th September, 2pm & 4:30pm – Creative Writing Workshop: Structuring a story for fiction. Alex Wheatle.
• 21st September, 7pm – Isabel Losada – How to get published
All of these events are being held in Waterstones, 70 St John’s Road, Clapham, London SW11 1PT.
To publish your creative writing on a global platform – or read others’ work for free – visit www.enovella.co.uk.
Posted by John King on October 13, 2009 under People, Royal Holloway Businesses |
Founding President
Jack founded Royal Holloway Entrepreneurs in September 2009 to provide the support that he would have wanted to receive when he started The Founder, Royal Holloway’s independent newspaper in his first year at the College.
Jack is currently taking a year out from his studies to run Royal Holloway Entrepreneurs and to focus on eNovella, his new social network and publishing outlet for creative writers.
Jack is something of a serial entrepreneur. Having designed a number of commercial websites for small businesses whilst at school, he set up a small computer business during sixth form, building and selling computers on the internet and through eBay. During a gap year between school and university, he set up a browser-based online game which experienced some success as a project during the time it ran.
Jack currently lives in Egham. To contact Jack, please use the contact page.
Royal Holloway students have won several awards at the national Startup Smart competition run by author and entrepreneur, Robin Bennett. The prizes will include help with set up costs, including help approaching investors, professional planning to get the company off the ground, one year’s mentoring, hands-on support when required and access to business networking.