Every single day, aspiring first-time entrepreneurs around the world spend their time chasing the shadows cast by LinkedIn reports of their peers getting funded and they enter Dreamland, where they start chasing one shadow after the next after the next. Over the past few weeks, I have been approached by a number of folks about […]
What is a Hackathon? Having attended my first hackathon a few years ago and another one more recently, I am convinced of its benefits. For those who don’t know what that is, it’s a platform for idea makers to come together, present their concepts (big or small) and work on it for the next 54 […]
Apart from the prospect of sunshine and blue skies, for me, summer means welcoming our new students into the London Business School ‘family’. With so many having entrepreneurial aspirations, it’s always great to see their energy for endless ideas for new ventures as well as having an equal number being excited about the idea of […]
Cringe-making, toe-curling, awkward, confusing, arrogant, shabby, disorganised, unbelievable, deluded … all words that could be used to describe the worst business pitches. And most of us have been there, at one side of the table or another. If you want to avoid pitfalls with pitches, then read on. First up, I don’t consider myself to […]
No entrepreneur in the past few months can say that this has been an easy period. Not least myself running a tech-enabled home care service for dementia patients – some of the most vulnerable people affected by COVID-19. But in many ways, the COVID-19 pandemic has been the least stressful and most rewarding period of […]
Neil Dillon, MBA 2021, Equity Manager at Swoop Funding and VP of LBS Launchpad, delves deep into the many ways startups can find funding. Many startups that Neil works with have raised through these means or Neil is helping them directly through his work at Swoop Funding. There are many ways to peel a kiwi […]
When teaching entrepreneurship, we focus attention on the trials and tribulations attendant on starting a business. But starting a business is only the start of the trial. For London Business School entrepreneurs who have been able to satisfactorily answer Hamlet’s more famous existential question regarding their new businesses, the more difficult questions come afterwards and […]
Victor Stekly EMBA2015 Founder of Sportskred, a social media campaign management tool used by sports clubs, reflects on the past few months since the COVID-19 crisis hit and gives his account of how he overcame the challenges he faced as a result. My particular start-up has been going for 4 years – a triumph of […]
Out of the nine entries from London Business School, three students and one alumnus have made it to semi-finals of the 2020 Mayor’s Entrepreneur Competition. Dev Majumder EMBAGA2020, Kit Gammell MBA2021, Jennifer Lynch PhD and Guilherme Marins EMBA2018 will compete to win one of the four awards. The Mayor’s Entrepreneur competition offers a platform for […]
Evgenia Sopochkina MBA2021 shares her reflections after attending a recent fireside chat between Michael Moore, Director General of British Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (BVCA) and Luisa Alemany, Associate Professor of Management Practice and Academic Director of Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at London Business School. The event was jointly hosted by the Institute […]