Videos

Ever wondered about how to use Social Media properly? Wonder no more…

Last Thursday we were joined by Gareth Davies who was producing shows like Strictly Come Dancing and helping to carve the career of countless TV presenters- from Claudia Winkleman to Graham Norton.

A former music and drama graduate from Royal Holloway Gareth went on to work at the BBC for 9 years on countless TV shows before going freelance.  His work has taken him around the globe and 2 years ago he set up The Presenter Studio – a TV Presenter Training Company that gives people access to the industry.  The business has seen presenters go on to present for all the major channels and continues to make the stars of tomorrow.

You can find his talk below.

If you missed last Thursday’s event but want to catch up, here are the video links to the recordings:

With Where Good Ideas Come From, Steven Johnson addresses an urgent and universal question: What sparks the flash of brilliance? How does groundbreaking innovation happen? This video on YouTube, created as a promotional trailer for his new book, playfully explores the idea of allowing chance to ‘favour the connected mind’.

If this video interests you, and you want to try out some exercises which will help you to generate a new business idea, come to our next Startup Wednesday workshop on 10th November 2010, 2pm-4pm in Arts Building S21.

Ideas & Product Development

Customer Development & Marketing

Raising Finance

Pitching to Investors

Here’s a quote from a highly entrepreneurial PhD student at Royal Holloway:

“I have a link here for a TED talk by Prof. George Whitesides, a legendary chemist from the US. He is talking about a diagnostic kit technology developed in his lab for applications in the developing world. The simplicity of the whole idea is inspiring for any person interested in the sciences. Ideas such as this do a lot for me, I am hoping it might do the same for others. ”

Check out the video below to see what he means!

Virgin Media Pioneers is a video-blogging community for young entrepreneurs. Check out this latest video – David McQueen speaks to Jamal Edwards, founder of SBTV, one of the UK’s most popular youth media channels. For more interviews like this visit http://www.virginmediapioneers.com. You can also send us your videos to feature on Royal Holloway Entrepreneurs TV!

If you were at our Start It! University Entrepreneurs talk with Hermione Way, you probably remember the video she showed titled: Social Media Revolution.

Now, the original one dates back to 2008, however, these numbers have obviously changed.

So … here’s the new version from May 2010.

PlinkArt, a company run by two Oxford PhD students and incubated by Oxford Entrepreneurs, have become the first UK company to be purchased by US tech giants Google. Their technology, a mobile visual search system, will be integrated into Google Goggles.

Here at Royal Holloway Entrepreneurs, we are hard at work building our very own incubation centre, so that Royal Holloway students can be the next Google purchase! Check out this video to see Florian & Anil helping to paint the new centre…

In rural Africa, poor transport costs lives. Drugs cannot be delivered, patients cannot reach health centres and medics cannot send samples to labs for analysis. Riders for Health is changing all this. But can they now set up a new medical transport network in rural Zambia in just six months? Can they meet Alvin Hall’s challenge to import the motorcycles, train the riders, negotiate with the ministry and complete all the legal and business hurdles so quickly?

Watch more of this documentary series online.