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Blog Archive for July 2012

Adzuna's Graduate of the Year

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Leo Anthias, 2012 Cohort, has just been awarded the Adzuna prize for Graduate of the Year. The grand prize has earned Leo 1,000, a CV clinic with a top UK entrepreneur and an internship with investment company Passion Capital. An English and...

A Taste of Things to Come...

A story told by Zahid Mitha, EF Cohort 2012

Zahid MithaStart-ups are tough. Things never go as planned. This mantra is repeated endlessly in the start-up community, but, until you experience the ups-and-downs first-hand you can't truly understand what it's...

How (and why) you should learn to code

By Leo Anthias, EF cohort 2012

LaLike many programmers, syntax, declarations, and expressions were the cornerstones of my degree; unfortunately in my case, these were in the form of English literature. 

Yet, if one is interested in...

Entrepreneur First Ideation Day - a story told by Matt Simmonds

MsI arrived at the venue in the pouring rain, not really knowing what to expect. It was an early start and I was looking forward to the prospects of breakfast, shelter and the exciting day ahead.

Over breakfast we had just one hour to interview...

What I wish I’d learnt at uni

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By Will Swannell, co-founder of Hire Space.

Launching a start-up from scratch means learning a lot, quickly. There are a hundred and one things that need doing at any one time, and nobody else to do them for you. You have probably spent...