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Blog Archive for June 2012

Entrepreneurship as a journey - A story told by serial entrepreneurs

by isa

Logostartupfinance3Listen up, young entrepreneurs! There was a clear message in Lord Dennis Stevenson’s keynote speech at the Cambridge Startup Finance Academy at the Judge Business School, University of Cambridge - entrepreneurship is an over-romanticised...

Pitching, Union Jacks and rejection

by isa

Dsc 2561 Our participants got together on a Saturday to go over skills that would help them once they’d launch their companies.

The first skill being the art of pitching... Say, when you meet someone, how much do you remember of their story? After...

Getting Down(ing)

by isa

by Laura Lambert, EF cohort 2012.
Laura LambertAn invitation to attend the Founders Forum drinks party at Downing Street? How marvelous (especially as certain kind friends pointed out, I have yet to in fact launch a company…) But nevertheless, Downing Street...

Creativity and Customer Acquisition Go Hand in Hand

by isa

Paul Graham reckons that “cofounders are for a startup what location is for real estate. You can change anything about a house except where it is. In a startup you can change your idea easily, but changing your cofounders is hard.”

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Regus to offer EF entrepreneurs flexible workspace access

by isa

Entrepreneur First is pleased to announce Regus as one of our in-kind partners. Regus is the world's largest provider of flexible workspaces and they have kindly donated Gold member cards to each of our cohort, giving them access to Regus's...

Much Buzz at the Microsoft BizSpark

by isa

Now that exams are over and that the EF cohort has a chance to surface back into the entrepreneurial world, the EF team attended the 8th Microsoft BizSpark European Summit, which brought together thought leaders in the entrepreneurial...