Join us for the Entrepreneurship Club's annual fast paced, exciting, pre-holidays networking session! We will "speed network" for 30-40 minutes, and there will then be an opportunity for more informal networking over a glass of wine. This event is open to everyone.
18.00-19.30
Concourse
University of Edinburgh Business School
29 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh, Lothian EH8 9JS, United Kingdom
How Serial Technology Entrepreneurs Think: Joint event with Cambridge entrepreneurs and alumni at the University of Edinburgh's Business School
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Come and hear successful entrepreneurs discuss their journeys – and mind-sets – and network with entrepreneurial alumni from Cambridge University
Come along to this joint E Club event with Cambentrepreneurs, the Edinburgh branch of Cambridge University alumni entrepreneurs.
Three successful serial entrepreneurs will give their perspective on how entrepreneurs think. The speakers been involved in multiple startups as founders and in a variety of other roles, and will take us through their personal journeys and what they have learnt along the way, including their “Do's” and “Dont's”.
There will also be the opportunity to chat with other attendees, including a number of entrepreneurs from Cambridge University, over a networking reception afterwards.
The agenda for the evening is:
18:30: Welcome by Dr. Claudia M. Duffy
18:45: Brian Williamson
19:05: Simon Krystman
19:25: Hanadi Jabado
19:45: Panel discussion
20:15: Closing remarks and Networking
21:30: Event closes
Cambentrepreneurs was started in 2017 with the following aims:
Support business and social entrepreneurship among Cambridge University alumni, current students and others.
Inspire and assist its members to start, grow and invest in outstanding businesses by providing a structure that allows them to share their knowledge, experiences and networks
Bring together positive minded alumni and others who want to work together to support enterprise, whether as entrepreneurs, investors, students or service providers.
Launching and Scaling Successful Technology Products
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Essential ingredients for startups series: launching and scaling successful products – and the art of pivoting (2/3)
Join us for the second in the series where we explore the “essential ingredients” for successful startups with a focus on Scottish entrepreneurs.
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Essential ingredients for startups series: launching and scaling successful products – and the art of pivoting (2/3)
07 Nov 2017
18:30 - 20:00 (1 hour 30 minutes)
Details & registration
This second event in the 'Essential ingredients for startups series' will showcase early stage companies that have progressed beyond the initial startup stage and have successfully developed their product or service offering. The focus will be on the need to change and develop their offering, often quite radically. Our panel, which includes entrepreneurs that have pivoted their product or service, will look at the lessons learned in listening to their customers and arriving at an offering that's fit for purpose by satisfying a genuine demand.
The panel includes Vicky Brock, founder of Clear Returns, a multi-award-winning data technology company, and David Hunter, founder and CEO of Shot Scope, the first truly automatic performance tracker for golf. They will be joined by Gavin Don, founder of Newsbase and Entrepreneur in Residence at the E Club and Dr Raluca Bunduchi, Director of MSc Entrepreneurship & Innovation. The panel will be chaired by Sany Finlayson OBE, founder of MBM Commercial LLP.
Our partner for this event, MBM Commercial, is an award-winning commercial law firm that helps entrepreneurial businesses. Many of their clients are businesses based throughout the UK, which are going through significant growth, either by investment, acquisition or by international expansion. They also offer US law capability to assist clients who are doing deals in the US, expanding into US markets or transacting with US businesses. They are the market leaders for advising on early stage investment deals.
Visualisation, Data and Content Marketing - Steven Drost, Stipso
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The E Club is delighted to welcome Steven Drost, co-founder of Edinburgh based technology company Stipso. Steven has spent his professional life gathering data for the market research industry and has a deep knowledge and experience of all data collection methods, platforms, etc. - so he knows how hard it is to motivate and engage respondents, and how hard it is to identify good data. He is currently exploring new ways to reframe the collection, integration and visualisation of data and is part of a team that is building a genuinely useful and forward looking product, which is positioned at the intersection of data-collection and content marketing. In addition, he is interested in the emotional drivers behind user behaviour and the visual forms of communication.
Stipso enables brands and agency creatives to create and publish powerful, social infographics which simultaneously visualise data and allow users to contribute their own. They call these Living Infographics: powerful, visual, branded content to engage and delight your audience.
The talk will be followed by a Q & A session and a wine reception.
The Edinburgh Entrepreneurship Club (E-Club) is a free networking club open to all. We run weekly events and our programme includes several speakers from the tech industry. All of our events are followed by a wine & networking reception.
We are hosted by the University of Edinburgh Business School.
Pitching Competition - University of Edinburgh students
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This is the first of two Santander Bank sponsored pitching competitions this academic year and it will be held during Global Entrepreneurship Week! ANyone can come along and watch the students pitch.
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Up to six student (or recent student) entrepreneurs will pitch their business ideas to a panel of judges and a live audience. The winner will receive a cheque for 1,000 pounds provided by Santander Bank.
Low Carbon Energy Entrepreneurs - joint event between the E Club and the ECCI
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**Note different venue - the ECCI**
We will hear from two entrepreneurs operating in the low carbon space at this joint E Club and Edinburgh Centre for Carbon Innovation (ECCI) event. Join us at the brand new ECCI building at High School Yards which is a 5 minute walk from the University of Edinburgh Business School (see link below for directions). The talks will be followed by a wine reception.
Speakers:
Vijay Bhopal: Director, SCENE: Sustainable Community Energy Network
SCENE is a social enterprise focused on the community energy. They carry out research - producing some of the most in-depth and insightful reports on community energy in the UK so far, and consultancy - helping project leaders to understand their options, plan projects and get their communities onside.SCENE also looks to promote effective policy change and financing mechanisms by working with innovative partners in the field, as is part of a project development coalition - Sustainable Heat and Power.
Vijay is a director at SCENE and has been a involved with a variety of projects as a researcher, consultant and financial analyst developing some of the financing and partnership models which Scene is espousing. Vijay also acts as Business Manager for micro-developer Sustainable Heat and Power Ltd. He holds a BSc in Geology from The University of Edinburgh and an MSc in Environment and Resource Management from the Free University in Amsterdam.
Dory McIntosh: Operations Manager, iPower
Dory McIntosh is the Operations Manager for iPower - a UK developer of low carbon projects. Structured as a social enterprise, iPower is focused on reducing energy bills and carbon emissions.iPower aims to make clean energy affordable to all and a majority of our profit is used to help combat fuel poverty and climate change.
Alongside director Jon Cape, Dory has over 30 years experience in energy, project delivery and new business development. You can see Dory pitching at Scotland's biggest investor showcase event, Engage Invest Exploit.
Lessons Learned and Myths Explored: Starting Up in America and Scotland - (Archangel Speaker Series)
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Believe it or not, Edinburgh is one of the best places to start a tech company! Drawing from his experience starting and growing companies in both America and Scotland, John Peebles will provide an American's perspective on the Scottish investment community, business climate, and why Edinburgh might be one of the best places in the world to start your next great company.
The Entrepreneurship Club is delighted to be hosting this event in conjunction with Archangel Informal Investment, Scotland’s leading business angel syndicate. Established in 1992, the syndicate now comprises over 100 investor members. Archangels invests c.£10m per year in early stage Scottish technology companies, including leverage from partners, the largest being the Scottish Enterprise Co-Investment Fund.
Coffee will be served from 6pm and the event will start at 6:30pm. The talk will be followed by a wine reception.
About John Peebles
John has spent the past 12 years growing healthcare and education technology startups in America and Scotland. Currently the CEO of Administrate, an online training administration system built just for training providers, he is passionate about great teamwork and great products.
John has spoken at universities and conferences across the United States and Europe on a variety of topics including teams, technology, and growing successful startups.
The Edinburgh Entrepreneurship Club (E-Club) is a free networking club open to all. We run weekly events and our programme includes several speakers from the tech industry.
We are hosted by the University of Edinburgh Business School.
Digital Publishing: Evolution, Disruption & the Future
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The publishing industry is now changing faster than ever before due to internet services, digital publishing, free blogging platforms and open access journals. How will this continue to evolve in the future? Will the erosion of traditional publishing methods continue and how will publishing companies adapt? What are the growing entrepreneurial opportunities in this dynamic industry?
Join us for a day of publishing talks, discussion and networking on 12th June! Hear ten speakers talk about their industry and how it is changing. The event will be hosted by the Edinburgh Entrepreneurship Club and is free and open to the public. Past participants have included entrepreneurs, students, investors, staff and business people from a range of industries.
Collaborative Innovation: Myth or Reality? Bob Huggins (Invest Ottawa)
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Bob sold his company to Google in 2008 and is now an investor and entrepreneur in residence in Ottawa. He is thinking of coming to Edinburgh for a year.
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