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5 things I wish I’d known as a student entrepreneur

Posted: 14 May 2013by Nick Wheeler - Founder, Charles Tyrwhitt

I always knew I wanted to start my own business. I just didn’t know what to do! I see a lot of students now and some are keen to start a business, but never seem quite certain what to do. So that is my #1.

1. Don’t worry about what you do. We cannot all come up with a Facebook or Google. If you won’t settle for less, then you just won’t start. The important thing is to start. Find something you like and understand and then just do it better than anybody else.

Opportunities for Innovation in the Age of Mobile

Posted: 14 May 2013by Alfie Simmons

It’s been over a year since PandoDaily quite correctly trumpeted the beginning of the end for Web 2.0 and the beginning of the Age of Mobile. Desktop sales continue to decline whilst people continue to spend progressively more time in mobile apps than they do online.

Google Glass bugs are an Entrepreneurs’ Charter

Posted: 14 May 2013by Simon Bond

venturecannibalism.com: If looking through the new Google Glass doesn’t make you dizzy, then the pre-launch PR spin certainly will. Last month Seattle night club, The 5 Point, announced it has banned patrons wearing Google Glass on privacy grounds 6 months before the new device is even on sale. This month 8000 lucky triallists paid $1,500 for advance copies of the high-tech glasses in a highly publicised online auction. Clearly this is not a product that has to try hard to make the news cycle.

Week Eleven

Posted: 21 March 2013by Matthew Rusk

This week I had the pleasure of meeting up with one of the campuses most successful student entrepreneurs, Ben Hayes. Ben, a final year psychology student runs a social media management business called Born Social.

What’s behind a tech-startup?

Posted: 14 March 2013by Solomon Akhtar

When people hear of a new website or tech startup – what do they think of?

Why corporate venturing needs to adapt to survive

Posted: 14 March 2013by Simon Bond

Corporate venturing needs to adapt to survive – maybe! Here’s a piece I did for Global University Venturing. Would be interested if any of you Corporate Venturers agree :)

IP Strategy for Start Up Companies

Posted: 12 March 2013by Jonathan Hodrien

One of the most important issues for technology-based start up companies, is what strategy they should follow to protect the Intellectual Property (IP) they own?

Week Ten

Posted: 10 March 2013by Matthew Rusk

Enter the Dragon! This week was all about Doug Richard’s From The Dragon’s Mouth all day workshop held in the Great Hall on the Friday. Packed with out will around 100 students that signed up for the Guild’s lead event for their new entrepreneurial program Ignite Doug’s talk was first class.

Is there a new religion upon us?

Posted: 04 March 2013by Karen Brooks

Praise the word of Entrepreneurship. This is what SETsquared’s Kauffman Global Scholar, Shaun Miller, said this week. He has been converted just one month into his six month trip to the US on the Kauffman programme.