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‘Make business fun and differentiate yourself from the crowd’

29 September, 2010 by Guest Blogger

What else might you have missed? … More insights from the Stanford REE Series, with notes from the second round of parallel speakers. Have a browse through, and you can access the full article for whichever topics interest you. Want to highlight points, or take a different angle? Feel free to add your thoughts below!

Teaching Furniture Design – Anselm Fraser

Guest blogged by Jill Robertson

Don’t commute, build a business and work from home in a job that’s varied and you enjoy. Above all, ‘make business fun and differentiate yourself from the crowd’ – this is Anselm’s philosophy in teaching and in life. Well, he certainly ‘walks the talk’ as no-one could have failed to notice his odd copper and blue shoes coupled with a rather unique set of braces. Delightfully describing himself as a ‘busy fool who hasn’t the time to stop and think’, I think he’s rather harsh on himself. [Full story on Anselm’s talk]

Social Media and Sustainable Entrepreneurship – Dr. Geoffrey Archer Continue Reading »

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Events Menu: 27th Sept – 3rd Oct

27 September, 2010 by Jessica Williamson

Ok details added… Holler if I missed anything else!

Tuesday 28th Sept: Dorkbot Alba, 8pm at the new Edinburgh Hacklab

A fornightly-ish get-together for creative hardware tinkering and learning. If you’re coming for the first time, we advise you to sign up to our mailing list, just to say hello and check we’re meeting in the usual place.

Tuesday 28th Sept: Scottish Usability Association meetup, see comment below!

Wednesday 29th Sept: E-Club Pitching for Partners, Ideas & Resources, 6:30pm at Business School Auditorium

What is everyone working on? Hear from a mix of folks with new ideas or companies underway, and let’s see what feedback we can offer to help them sort out plans, evaluate opportunities, or reach particular markets. Continue Reading »

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Four companies to watch this weekend…and beyond. #Launch48

25 September, 2010 by Hilary Singer

Launch48 is holding another 48-hour-business-building-marathon in London this weekend. The action started last night when participants descended on the PayPal offices in Richmond and pitched dozens of new business ideas. From these, four teams materialised yesterday evening, and are now working non-stop to produce functional demos, business plans, and a little marketing buzz before the event ends tomorrow night.

This weekend’s teams are:

1. MoveNearby: Search for real estate based on criteria other than price – school catchment areas, nearby facilities and services.

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Why do we always do it that way? And more…

25 September, 2010 by Guest Blogger

Our Stanford REE Series carries on, as there was a lot to learn! During the first round of parallel sessions, speakers covered a range of topics on design, startups, & entrepreneurship education. In case you struggled to be in four places at once – or missed it altogether – a team of guest bloggers listened in for you. Anything stand out? Were you there too? Let us know what you find most useful or other lessons you took away 🙂

Teaching Creative Entrepreneurship – Dr. Andy Penaluna

Guest blogged by Geoff Gregson

Andy began his session with a question: “why do we always do it that way”? He was referring to how we teach students at university and particularly, how we teach entrepreneurship. He believes that the integration of entrepreneurship and creativity and design as a teaching topic is making a difference to the success of recent start-ups… [Full story on Andy’s talk] Continue Reading »

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What’s in a name? A sale or two, apparently….

24 September, 2010 by Bela Hamid

I attended a short presentation this week about sales.  It was given by a guy called Neilson Kite who wrote a book about Neuro-Linguistic Programming.

One of the things he talked about was the importance of using the right words.  Kite shared his experience of the power of words when selling seminars.

A couple of examples:

  • A course about finance saw a 50% increase in attendance when the name of the seminar changed from Continue Reading »

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Girls: ever faced street harassment? Fight back with your iPhone.

23 September, 2010 by Bela Hamid

A new iPhone app is being launched to help women deal with harassment in public spaces.  The mobile phone app will be used to capture the user’s location and an image of the harasser.  Once used, an email will be sent to the participant asking for an account of the experience.  The application links to a dynamic mapping system so that photos and experiences submitted by participants can be pooled together to help paint a clearer picture of the scale of the problem of street harassment.

Hollaback (first launched in 2005 in New York City as a blog) is creating a unified reporting system via geo-mapping that can be scaled globally.   The information Continue Reading »

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Free Advice Tomorrow: Want to Book a Session?

23 September, 2010 by Jessica Williamson

The first of E-Club’s Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR) sessions for 2010/2011 is now open for bookings!

A visiting professor at the Business School and founder partner of corporate finance boutique Equitas. Gavin’s particular interests are in financials and building the team. An entrepreneur and corporate financier who helps young companies grow, Gavin advises on strategy and finance, trains technology innovators on presenting the business case, and invests in young companies as a business angel.

Whether you want to discuss an existing startup or a new idea, this is a handy chance to get some fresh advice with an hour of Gavin’s time. Sessions are available 10am-4pm Friday in the Business School (George Square), so sign up here if you want to take advantage – click on Gavin Don to see what times are still open, and enjoy!

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A Walk Through Memory Lane of Failure – the awesome David Law

21 September, 2010 by Guest Blogger

Our Stanford REE Series picks back up with insights from design entrepreneur David Law of Speck Design, Speck Products, and many more companies he’s founded. By guest blogger Kirsty Macgregor.

“Design and build a tool that will carry an egg as far as possible – and come back on Friday with a prototype” was the brief the young David Law was given as he applied for entry to the new, collaborative degree in Product Design and Engineering run by Glasgow University and Glasgow School of Art ( back in the dawn of time).  Working on this project created a degree of engagement David hadn’t experienced in years and gave him a taste of the “can do/ hands on” mindset fostered by the course… which was critical to his development. David kicked off his keynote speech on day 2 of the conference with a deliciously deadpan  “walk through (his) memory lane of failure“ which included his first failed attempt at gaining a degree in London leading to his second, formative -and successful- effort in Glasgow. Continue Reading »

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Events Menu: 20th-26th September

20 September, 2010 by Jessica Williamson

Monday 20th September: EPIS tech sales talk from ThinkTank Maths, 11am-1pm

A semi-closed talk for EPIS folks and other invitees, sorry this isn’t a totally open event, but wanted to remind anyone who said they’d be there…

Tuesday 21st September: Meet & greet Russ Wallace, TBC

We’re excited to have visitor Russ Wallace, founder of trend hunting site Trendero, visiting Edinburgh this week from San Francisco. In addition to running Trendero, Russ does some freelance blogging for Valley publications and is interested in consumer web and social media startups here. We’ll be meeting with him Tuesday night and wanted to see who else might like to join? Give us a shout below if you’d specifically like to meet him and we’ll see what we can sort out, or holler to @Trendero on Twitter… Continue Reading »

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Edinburgh Hacklab Update + photos from the event!

19 September, 2010 by Hilary Singer

We checked out the Hacklab opening on Friday. The place was so packed at 19:30 that we could hardly get in the door—quite a feat for a co-working venue that’s only been a month in the making.

Here’s a quick glimpse of the event, including some of the projects Hacklab members have built:

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