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.
Nov
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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.
MoMoEdi: The Power of Conversation, or Entrepreneurial opportunities in Mobile Messaging
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When creating mobile services, or the use of mobile as a channel to their customers for existing digital services, the main choices folks currently consider is between a mobile site or a native app or the various shades of grey in between.
Mobile devices were originally, and still are to a considerable degree, designed to support conversation and messaging; whether it be around voice, simple text messages, or richer media such as IM etc. This can often be a much more convenient and natural way to engage with a mobile user.
We will explore the opportunities this opens up, the challenges it presents, and why you should include messaging in your thinking when designing mobile services.
The use of messaging on mobile isn’t new - it is more that it has been forgotten about during the app revolution. Geoff Ballinger from deltaDNA spent many happy years rolling out SMS and MMS services in the 2000s and will remind us that these basic mechanisms still have a place in our toolbox alongside the newer and sexier alternatives.
Over the last few years there have been a huge expansion in richer messaging mechanisms on and around mobile. David Low and Richard Keen from Skyscanner will tell us about how they have successfully started to exploit these, initially through focussed partnerships with particular providers, and how they are now starting to draw these learnings into their core travel search products as their users adapt.
One key problem with chat as an interface is that it's unconstrained. It is easy to confuse a bot, and also easy for a bot to annoy a user. Daniel Winterstein from SoDash will consider understanding and sincerity vs automation, and look forward to the more sophisticated AIs and bots we may need. He'll also be demoing his new bot product: Orla, the social-media robot intern for SMEs.
As usual we will finish with an open discussion session followed by a networking reception with wine.
Mobile Monday Edinburgh: Entrepreneurial Opportunities and Challenges in mHealth and Wearables
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While out at MWC in Barcelona this year I attended a session at 4YFN entitled "The future of Health is Wearables & vice versa” where we were treated to an inspiring discussion around the possibilities for making huge advances in healthcare using wearables and mobile technology in general, but also emphasising the difficulties posed by the entrenched business models in that sector.
The topic seemed an ideal candidate for MoMoEdi’s next "Entrepreneurial Opportunities” event to explore all the special ups and downs provided by working in this particular space and engaging with the public sector etc, and be inspired about the opportunities for mobile and wearable businesses in healthcare, but educated about the challenges. Once again we are delighted to be hosted by the Entrepreneurship Club at the Business School.
We are delighted to have Christopher McCann from snap40 and Dave Romilly from Waracle giving their distinctive viewpoints based on their direct experience of working in the healthcare sector.
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.
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