Booster is an early-stage London Business School venture competition intended to give founders the boost they need to take their ventures to the next level. Supported by the LBS Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, the competition offers students an opportunity to earn grants totaling up to more than £20,000. In the following article, LBS Entrepreneurship […]
It’s been a busy period lately for the London Business School entrepreneurship community. Here are some of the updates that our entrepreneurs have been working on over the past few weeks. Pass the Keys exceeds its funding round by over 200% Pass the Keys raised over £1,000,000, more than double its original target of £500,000. […]
Whittling down just under 50 applications to select the final cohort for the next Incubator programme was no mean feat this year. Whilst the criteria for selection has remained constant over the years, it’s no real surprise that the growth in interest in entrepreneurship at the School has been reflected by a year-on-year increase in […]
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 […]
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 […]
With soaring temperatures in excess of 30 degrees, the prospect of a ‘staycation’ in the UK seems much more likely (and favourable) than jumping on a plane to sunnier overseas destinations. When I think back to when I last travelled – back in February – when I was in Dubai just ahead of the chaos breaking […]
Luisa Alemany, Associate Professor of Management Practice and Academic Director of Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at London Business School, writes about her latest case study which recently won an award in the EFMD Case Competition in the category of ‘Inclusive Business Model’. While growing up, Richard Bbaale saw his sister missing school due to […]
The customer development method was created by serial entrepreneur-turned-educator Steve Blank, father of the Lean Startup Movement. While Luisa Alemany, Associate Professor of Management Practice at London Business School, was preparing for her ‘New Venture Development’ class, she decided to contact Steve Blank to get his views on identifying customers during lockdown. Steve’s well-known words […]
I remember the morning, decades ago. A rookie PhD student on my first day. Someone escorted me to my laboratory bench and then drifted off. This was to be my base for the next three years. Around me purposeful chatter and tables messily piled high with electronics and buzz of other people’s experiments. I had […]