Most entrepreneurs realise that it’s important to invest in brand – not least because they realise that most of the exit value of the business will come down to brand (rather than the original product innovation). But how do you determine brand character? How do you build a brand with no money and how deeply […]
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 […]
Although building sites were never officially closed as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the construction industry was thrown into crisis and forced to rethink ways of working overnight. Social distancing requirements placed restrictions on the number of people that could safely be together on a building site, which gave rise to all manner of tactics […]
Roheet Shah MBA2015 and Adam Hearne MBA2015, founders of CarbonChain, share tips on how to successfully seek funding from Innovate UK grants. Like most start-ups, when we launched CarbonChain in 2017 one of our major challenges was how to secure funding to develop our technology and grow our business. While we initially explored the “traditional” […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Jane Khedair, Chair of the LBS Incubator Programme, shares her findings on how the Incubator start-ups have responded to the current challenges and some insights about the programme. From this… Last September we welcomed the 10th cohort into London Business School’s Incubator programme, launched in 2010 on the back of a request from a couple […]
SearchSmartly recently became the first property search platform in the world to show air quality data around properties to prospective renters and buyers. SearchSmartly is a 2018 LBS Incubator startup founded by Taha Dar MBA2018. Taha shares why he thinks it is important to innovate continuously. While this new air quality search functionality was months […]