‘Every conversation is an opportunity to picth your business’ is the mantra of Warren Bennett, the entrepreneur behind online tailor ASuitThatFits.com, and this week’s speaker at Enterprise Tuesday (23rd Nov). The focus of the evening was learning to pitch your idea, and although often that means to investors, Warren stresses that for his business the key [...]
Archive for November 2010
Learning how to pitch your ideas
Two school friends, a gap year, two degrees in engineering and the net result is a rapidly growing business, making and selling really smart suits! Warren Bennett and David Hathiramani were at the Perse School in Cambridge. One then went to Imperial and the other to Cambridge. They remained connected because their families are in [...]
Balancing the Board of Directors – an Entrepreneur’s Perspective
Some years ago Graeme Minto the founder of Domino Printing Sciences shared his experiences and knowledge of building and balancing Boards of Directors for entrepreneurial ventures with groups of new entrepreneurs through a CfEL Master Class series. Graeme had developed his keen interest and knowledge of this vital part of implementing a new venture partially through [...]
Reflecting on Entrepreneurship Education Research
Two weeks ago, three members of the CfEL team participated in the 33rd Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ISBE) conference in London to present two research papers. This annual conference attended by over 400 people, provides a showcase for research into areas of entrepreneurship ranging from policy, business creation and closure, through to gender [...]
Entrepreneurship = Passion + Pragmatism
Last night’s Enterprise Tuesday (16th November) provided two truly inspirational perspectives on today’s technology entrepreneur – with talks from Dr Will West (Founder and CEO of Cell Centric) and Dr Shaun Fitzgerald (Co-founder and Managing Director of Breathing Buildings). Both have their roots in deep science, but tonight they provided fresh but reflective insights into how [...]
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