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 the Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at London Business School. The event was jointly hosted by the […]
Eliran Ben-David MBA2020 describes one of the most common fundraising instruments for startups, and its advantages and disadvantages, to help entrepreneurs make an informed decision. As a corporate lawyer in Israel, I advised venture capital funds and early-stage ventures on establishing their business, commercial affairs and negotiations, and of course, M&A transactions and financing rounds. […]
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 […]
When Thomas graduated from LBS’s Masters in Management (MiM) in 2010 he knew that he wanted to start his own business and it wasn’t long before he joined forces with co-founder, Dominik Richter, and HelloFresh was born. Hear from Thomas about his journey to building a global company with over 7,000 employees, the lessons he […]
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 […]
In my previous article, we covered 10 very commonly stated reasons that people give for wanting to become business owners, and why I think many of those are in fact potentially rather bad reasons. Today we are on a more positive bent, and drawing from my learnings from eight years in entrepreneurship, I’ll cover some what […]
Even though my own entrepreneurship journey is on an indefinitely pause, I still love chatting to people who are thinking of becoming business founders. It is always encouraging to learn that even in the current hyper-competitive, over-monopolised business climate, there are still many people who are willing to take the risk inherent to starting a business […]
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 […]
In Entrepreneurship, we mostly hear the success stories. The idealist whose concepts changed an industry, the maverick inventor whose products now inhabit countless homes, the whizz kid who raised millions in VC funding – these are the men and women who are called upon to do the fireside chats, the TEDx talks, the guest lectures, […]
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 […]