We were asked by the British Council to help out in selecting the top 100 young people to get the experience of a lifetime. They get to spend 6 weeks this summer is China, India or Brazil getting to know the culture, people, businesses and schools.
As the experts in enterprise we assessing the candidates on Read more…
Original ideas can come from all kinds of places. Whether you want to address environmental issues, start a social enterprise or make your community a better place, ideas have the power to change the way we all live.
Creative Partnerships recognise that young people often have the best ideas of all: the younger we are, Read more…
The Social Enterprise Coalition (SEC) – the umbrella body for the social enterprise movement – has launched an animation explaining social enterprise. If you have something to say about it, drop a comment below.
A colleague in USA just stumbled across this on YouTube… Bilimoria with advice on being an entrepreneur… irreverent title, but fairly serious/inspirational content.
If you would like to go to a Reception at Buckingham Palace, can you think of someone you could nominate for The Queen’s Award for Enterprise Promotion 2009?
The nominators of the successful candidates also get a Royal invitation so it is will worth making a nomination.
Each year there are up to 10 Awards Read more…
startups.co.uk have published their list of the top 100 UK start-ups. It is great to see some familiar faces in there, and lots of young entrepreneurs in the mix. My personal faves have to be Onya (their shopping bag is always on me) and moo.com. Check em out and please let us know your favourite.
http://www.startups.co.uk/6678842910082155685/startups-100.html
Check out dieselwall.com – they are looking for designs to go on huge buildings. The deadline for the huge Manchester wall (28 x 18m) is 18 May so there is plenty of time to think of some designs. The wall is huge and so is the opportunity. We might do one from Make Your Mark, maybe something Read more…
great article on web mission 08 and what it takes to be a uk tech entrepreneur.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/techdigest/20080423/ttc-web-mission-08-how-to-be-a-uk-tech-e-e870a33.html
but if you want a quick summary…
1. You need to have a monster ego.
2. You need to have an Eureka moment.
3. You need to work that idea.
4. You need to rope in your techie mate.
6. You need to get the Read more…
NESTA has unveiled the 100 groups who’ve made it through to the next stage of the Big Green Challenge, the £1 million prize fund that challenges people from across the UK to work together to demonstrate new ways to reduce CO2 emissions within their communities. You can find details of all 100 groups here: www.biggreenchallenge.org.uk/big-green-challengers/
The Read more…
The BBC is currently searching for Britain’s best entrepreneurs for the next series of Dragons’ Den and will be auditioning throughout the coming months. They want to hear from anyone who is genuinely seeking investment for their business idea or invention and thinks they’ve got what it takes to enter the Dragons’ Den.
If you Read more…
Make Your Mark has teamed up with the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, NESTA and a number of other organisations to bring you The UK Catalyst Awards: Community Awards for Social Change.
These new awards are looking for people who help their community by using social technology in new and exciting ways.
Anyone in the Read more…
last week, the global entrepreneurship week planning team in london met up with several host organizations from western europe. we all met in paris and were hosted by les journees de l’entrepreneur (http://www.journee-entrepreneur.com/) and ernst & young, who very graciously provided us a brilliant meeting space on the 38th and 39th floor of their Read more…
Having left the BBC Your Game event last Wednesday I continued onto the Spark Women’s Business Workout (also in Bristol) which was a really inspiring event for women who either want to set up a business or grow an existing one. Amongst others I met the founder of Sew Bespoke who makes custom wedding dresses and was Read more…
I’m in sunny Bristol today for two events. I’ve just returned from the BBC Your Game festival at the City Academy. Lots of people there are taking part as we speak in a football tournament, BBC Blast dance workshops etc and hearing from some great organisations like UnLtd Sport Relief, Princes Trust, the local police Read more…
The Ideas Igloo road show was created in order to search for hidden entrepreneurs in Colleges and Universities across the UK.
Being a Product Design student in Manchester Metropolitan University, I had a couple of ideas to share when the road show came to Manchester. After being selected as one of the top ten contenders in Read more…
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