Posted by John King on December 7, 2010 under Royal Holloway Businesses, Social Enterprise | 
VEO, Louis Mech’s new social enterprise eyewear brand, has been invited to participate in a Q&A by The Guardian Newspaper, one of the UK’s most read newspapers reaching 1.2 million readers daily. The feature looks to highlight new social enterprise endeavors, tackling the big question of ‘raising capital for your SE company.’
Louis, a longstanding member of Royal Holloway Entrepreneurs, told us, “The Guardian has a superb social enterprise section and we are really proud to have been chosen!”
Tune in to hear Louis and other social entrepreneurs discuss social enterprise finance on The Guardian website.
For more information about VEO eyewear visit the VEO website.
Posted by John King on September 26, 2009 under Advice, News |
“Almost all the companies that I’ve invested in that have failed, or that I see fail, have business models, great products, have pretty good teams but they have no users.
Getting users, getting distribution, getting attention, becoming viral – that’s the single most difficult thing on the internet to do. And just about every product fails because they don’t have any users.
Entrepreneurs tend not to focus on that. There are very few companies that have been able to get to tens of mills of users that have failed, other than for being sued or some other reason like that.
The other thing is that the people who would pay you for things, like carriers or big companies, typically don’t want to talk to you until you have tens of millions of users. If you have a thousand users and you go to British Telecom and say ‘I want to come up with a business model with you guys’, they’re not going to sit at the table with you.
So the focus on user growth initially may sound like an internet bubble-era way of thinking about things; but if you think about statistically what’s successful and what’s not, that is usually the succsessful thing, to focus on the virality and the user growth; and once you have that, what you look at is ‘who are we benefiting?’”
Joi Ito, Chief Executive of Creative Commons, in this interview in the Guardian
VEO, Louis Mech’s new social enterprise eyewear brand, has been invited to participate in a Q&A by The Guardian Newspaper, one of the UK’s most read newspapers reaching 1.2 million readers daily. The feature looks to highlight new social enterprise endeavors, tackling the big question of ‘raising capital for your SE company.’