Ayesha Ofori knew that she had made an important journey with her property investment portfolio, moving from what she terms a “side hustle” to a principal source of income, when she discovered that she was earning more from property than with her job with Goldman Sachs. In this post, she shares how she found purpose […]
By the time Map of Ag CEO Richard Vecqueray embarked on his MBA at London Business School in 2016, the digital economy had become a dominant force in almost every sphere of global business. Importantly, agriculture, his own business community, was the one remaining sector still offering untapped opportunity. “There is so much innovation going […]
Livspace co-founder Anuj Srivastava MBA2003 and Mark Kornfilt EMBALS2014, co-founder of Livestream, have been recognised by the Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (IIE) at London Business School for their entrepreneurial achievements. The Accomplished Entrepreneur Awards were established in 2010 to celebrate alumni who have built innovative businesses, the awards have become a highly anticipated moment […]
In these unprecedented times of (using the word unprecedented) uncertainty, many of us are contemplating taking the leap of faith and becoming a fulltime entrepreneur. In this edition of the Zymurgist Diaries, let’s aim to understand how various biases trick founders and why founders continue to succumb to them, and what they can do about it. […]
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. […]
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 […]
SFR Medical, a social impact MedTech company from this year’s LBS Incubator cohort, was recently selected to represent London Business School at this year’s Santander Universities Emerging Entrepreneurs Programme. The programme is open to students and recent graduates from a Santander Universities UK partner university. It runs from May – September 2020 and features virtual […]