Go Ape took the title of Santander Small to Medium Sized Business of the Year at this week’s National Business Awards 2009 and founder, Tristram Mayhew, will be taking part in the Entrepreneurs in London conference on 17 November 2009.
With a belief that zero risk equals zero development. Tristram has always looked to challenge, surprise and excite people. This attitude has developed Go Ape over eight years to become one of the fastest growing companies in the UK.
At Entrepreneurs in London Tristram will elaborate on what drives and challenges him, and share a few secrets of his success.
Entrepreneurs in London – 17th November 2009 – Grand Connaught Rooms, LondonGo Ape took the title of Santander Small to Medium Sized Business of the Year at this... more
In the last 100 years, human civilization has rocketed through the Industrial Age, past the Information Age, and into the unknown digital mystery of the future. We now live in a constant state of change. Everyday computers get faster, smaller, and cheaper. Everyday we wake up and the Earth is a little bit warmer. The only thing that is certain is that nothing is certain. An emerging leader's development opportunity... http://www.nextvoice247.com/blog/2009/11/only-thing-certain-is-nothings-certain-history-of-modern-man/In the last 100 years, human civilization has rocketed through the Industrial Age,... more
The University of Connecticut’s School of Business today announced it has joined the Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities (EBV), a major initiative that helps rebuild the lives and economic potential of the country’s veterans with disabilities.
UConn becomes the sixth member of a consortium of business schools offering the program, and the first in New England. Each school annually hosts up to 25 veterans with disabilities who participate in cutting-edge training in entrepreneurship and small business management.
“The University of Connecticut is honored to share in the efforts of the EBV consortium to enrich the lives of veterans with service-connected disabilities,” said Michael J. Hogan, UConn president. “A close-knit university community like UConn’s can provide a nurturing environment in which these distinguished veterans can further develop their professional skills after serving our country. It goes without saying that we owe a great debt to these individuals who sacrificed so much. It’s our privilege to use our resources and the expertise of our students, faculty, staff, alumni, and other supporters to do what we can to improve the lives of these veterans and their families.”
Are you thrilled by the developments taking place in Web 2.0? If Yes then you have come at the right place. The post gives a round of the Web 2.0 Summit 2009 that took place last week in San Francisco. It feature people as high profile as Google's co-founder Sergey Brin to Twitter's visionary co-founder & CEO Evan Williams. It also answers questions like "Why will Facebook, Twitter, Apple & EBay and not Google will determine the future of Internet"Are you thrilled by the developments taking place in Web 2.0? If Yes then you have... more
The T-shirt reads "Caution: Educated African American Male." Kalief Rollins thinks it will be his next best-seller. The 17-year-old from Carson, Calif., near Los Angeles, took home a $10,000 grand prize from the National Youth Entrepreneurship Competition this week for his business selling custom T-shirts with inspirational designs. Rollins competed against 27 finalists and 24,000 initial high school entrants for the award, given by the nonprofit Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship.
(NPR, 2009, October 10, par.1-2)
Rollins says Phree Kountry Clothing's first big seller depicted President Obama. The shirts, designed by his brother Anthony, 22, "have leadership themes and positive messages," Rollins tells NPR's Scott Simon. So far, Rollins has sold about 300 T-shirts out of his garage and is offering catalogs through phreekountry@yahoo.com.
(NPR, 2009, October 10, par.3)
In the next year, he says, "we plan to get our shirts into events like fairs, swap meets and farmers markets. ... We want to get our shirts into different stores that they can be sold at as well. We want to get someone famous to endorse it." When asked which celebrity he'd pick, Rollins answers: "P. Diddy."
(NPR, 2009, October 10, par.4-5)
With the $10,000, Rollins says he plans to make some business upgrades, including stepping up from a heat press to a silk-screen machine to improve the shirts' quality. But Rollins says he and his brother also plan to celebrate: "We'll take a few, maybe $20 or $30 out of there and me and my brother will go celebrate at Roscoe's Chicken 'n' Waffles."
(NPR, 2009, October 10, par.6-7)
Phree Kountry Clothing is a family affair. In addition to his brother, Rollins' mother helps out. "I hired my mom as my CFO," Rollins says. "She worked as an accountant, so she's good in that field of work. I pay a little money to her for the electricity I use for my equipment, but other than that, you know, she just wants to see me do well, so she says I could just do it and she's just proud of me."
(NPR, 2009, October 10, par.8-9)The T-shirt reads "Caution: Educated African American Male." Kalief Rollins thinks it... more
I am now leading a team at Valve! I finally have all the resources needed to do some very exciting stuff that you guys will love. I look forward to revealing more specific details when the time is right.
-IceFrog
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Highlights:
For all of these entrepreneurs, college campuses provided invaluable free resources in a safe, supportive atmosphere.
First and foremost, they are tribe-builders. By that, we mean that they seem to have an innate talent, and an almost compulsive desire, to draw others into their entrepreneurial orbits and to continually extract from them wisdom and advice. Parents, professors, mentors, investors, and complete strangers are all invested in the success of these companies.
They are passionate, scrappy, and persistent, yet seek advice and counsel.
A door to the White House was opened, e-mail addresses were exchanged, and a promise of open dialogue was made. Which makes us think that maybe the most influential tribe of all is the one we honor right here every year on the 30 Under 30 list.30 Under 30
America's Coolest Young Entrepreneurs
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For all of these... more
Beijing -- an ancient city developing into a modern metropolis at breakneck speed. As the economic tide turns against the west, more and more young, foreign talents are taking their entrepreneurial ambitions into China.
How have these 20-something year-old entrepreneurs been affected by the economic crisis? As China moves towards 60 years of communist rule, what is the future for the country's market economy?
Meet these creative young minds as they venture into a new China.
p/s: Check out our other pods to for a more in-depth feature of the businesses featured.Beijing -- an ancient city developing into a modern metropolis at breakneck speed. As... more
Beijing -- an ancient city developing into a modern metropolis at breakneck speed. As the economic tide turns against the west, more and more young, foreign talents are taking their entrepreneurial ambitions into China.
How have these 20-something year-old entrepreneurs been affected by the economic crisis? As China moves towards 60 years of communist rule, what is the future for the country's market economy?
Meet these creative young minds as they venture into a new China.
p/s: Check out our other pods to for a more in-depth feature of the businesses featured.Beijing -- an ancient city developing into a modern metropolis at breakneck speed. As... more
Appfrica Labs is an investment company and software development firm that facilitates and incubates technology entrepreneurs in East Africa. We do this by offering a physical space with a solid internet connection, servers, software and computers that allows entrepreneurs a place to develop their ideas in a constructive environment with industry professionals as mentors, outside of school. Entrepreneur projects are refined and prepped to help them secure funding and launch sustainable, profitable businesses. Our model is loosely modeled after Paul Graham’s Y Combinator.
As a for-profit incubator and software development firm, our mission is to build capacity by offering opportunities and work experience for East African software entrepreneurs. We pick up where local colleges leave off by offering hands-on experience in programming languages like Java, C++, C#, Ruby on Rails, Django and Python, CouchDB, PHP, Perl, Kannel, which aren’t often taught locally at university. These skills are highly valued around the world and having professionals in these areas helps to make East Africa a more attractive place to develop software – not only locally, but also for multinational firms and NGOs.Appfrica Labs is an investment company and software development firm that facilitates... more
These 10 CEOs found wealth, fame and success with very minimal college education, if any. Here you can read about CEOs and billionaires who have influenced media, the arts, education, the oil business, technology and more without a formal education.These 10 CEOs found wealth, fame and success with very minimal college education, if... more
How To Create Positive Social Change? "Start Small. Do One Thing. Focus. Repeat.", advises Premal Shah, President of the online microlending platform, Kiva.org.
Learn about Kiva's achievements to date, its launch in the United States, and what one can expect at Premal's upcoming panel discussion during Social Capital Markets (SOCAP09) conference in San Francisco, Ca., September 1 - 3, 2009.
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It’s not easy, but it starts with entrepreneurs and executives like me and you. The biggest problem is, as much as we think the government helps small businesses and start-ups, the government actually harm entrepreneurs’ long-term objectives. Ever wonder why, with all the money provided through loans and grants, most startups fail within their first 5 years?
Lots of these failed startups can be attributed to inexperienced entrepreneurs entering into an already competitive marketplace. Some of these entrepreneurs lack management skills, others didn’t take the time to formulate a thorough business plan, analyze the market and competition, or bring enough capital to the table. Many entrepreneurs actually bring too much “capital” to the table; but they do so in the form of loans which they ultimately cannot pay back (this is where I reiterate the importance of a thorough business plan). Outside lack of planning the single biggest threat to a small businesses success is the government.
I know, I know. Grants, government-backed loans, the Small Business Administration--all of these things are meant to help entrepreneurs; not bankrupt them. But what about government subsidies and bailouts to failing companies? These policies hurt entrepreneurs more than the government programs in place to help them.
Government subsidies are killing America. Subsidies, by definition, support a failing business with tax payer money. This immediately removes any incentive of the failing business to rethink their strategy or develop new revenue streams. Think about it: if the government paid you to fail, would you change your business strategy? Of course not.
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Alister & Paine is a digital magazine covering business, lifestyle and human interest topics.Want to save the economy?
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Acumen Fund founder and CEO Jacqueline Novogratz shares stories of social-sector entrepreneurship in an excerpt from her new book, The Blue Sweater. A video interview with the author takes you behind the book.Acumen Fund founder and CEO Jacqueline Novogratz shares stories of social-sector... more
There are lots of examples of successful, famous individuals who simply felt that college couldn’t satisfy their ambitions and dreams. And if anyone asks you to prove it, just point to these 10 incredibly successful and famous college dropouts.There are lots of examples of successful, famous individuals who simply felt that... more
"Tonight in the Stationers' Hall in London, Ben Bradshaw, the secretary of state for culture, media and sport, will launch the British Council's Young Creative Entrepreneur awards for 2009-2010. The categories cover many areas including publishing, design, fashion and music; one of them this year is the UK Young Performing Arts Entrepreneur award.
I sat on the panel choosing the shortlist of six candidates and helped select the winner, who will be announced in Edinburgh on 22 August. This interesting process was a reminder that in theatre we are still quite squeamish about the idea of people who not only have a demonstrable passion for the arts, but who are also capable of seeing the arts as a business like any other.
That squeamishness is daft; after all, way back in a golden age of new writing, the careers of Shakespeare, Marlowe and their contemporaries relied entirely on the entrepreneurial flair of theatre owners. Our greatest playwright was a commercial writer working for a commercial management.
Yet the idea that commercial is a dirty word persists in the theatre. So, too, does the notion that somehow it is nobler for everyone to survive on crumbs of funding rather than nurturing the best possible environment for artists to create work.
In the current climate, our need for cultural entrepreneurs is greater than ever; we have as much need of organisational energy, corporate skills, original ideas and a willingness to take risks as we do of creative energy. When funding dries up, so too does the quality and riskiness of work on our stages. Some work will always require considerable subsidy – and should be given it – but theatre is over-reliant on funding (or investment, if you prefer) from Arts Council England, trusts and foundations. This means it is particularly vulnerable in a downturn.
Theatre needs its entrepreneurs, it needs more courses such as the one run by Birkbeck and more opportunities for producers to share skills and information. Initiatives such as the Paul Hamlyn Breakthrough Fund and the British Council's UK Young Performing Arts Entrepreneur award suggest that a change of culture is taking place. With government spending certain to be severely constrained in the coming years, it is time to stop despising cultural entrepreneurship and start talking about the challenges facing theatre, what we are going to do about them and how we're going to work together.""Tonight in the Stationers' Hall in London, Ben Bradshaw, the secretary of state for... more
Is community spirit a thing of the past, an old tradition, or can it be re-built in all areas, by the young and the old?
A good morning wave; a cup of sugar; a little gossip – Priceless; for everything else there’s Mastercard. A short film promoting 'The Big Lunch,' being launched on 19 July 2009, sponsored by the Eden Project and Mastercard, is a nationwide event which hopes to create, enhance and drive forth this slow, dying sense of community spirit.
In today’s society, community spirit appears to be becoming something of the past, extinct almost. Whether it be religion, politics, disagreements over the Iraq War, or a simple dislike for the young adults next door wearing hoodies, neighbours across the nation are becoming strangers, an annoyance as oppose to friends, a pest instead of a good morning wave.
Social negativity in all its forms needs to be combated. Neighbours need to start communicating, communities need to be rebuilt. Throw aside the quarrels and differences - take the opportunity to get to know the people in your neighbourhood, the person, not their beliefs nor your differences, but the personality, the kind heart, and rebuild community spirit, at 'The Big Lunch,' 19 July 2009.Is community spirit a thing of the past, an old tradition, or can it be re-built in... more
This is what i was told when i was in high school. We all know that these are the words of
old fools, but my problem is that know one from our generation is representing us. It's nice to know there's someone out there who doesn't think our generation will send the world down the tubes. Why aren't we standing up for our selfs.This is what i was told when i was in high school. We all know that these are the... more
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