We recently ran Quickstart, our brand new Student Enterprise programme for 2017! Through running our other programmes like Launchpad and the Big Idea Challenge, which require customer research and idea validation, we realised that we get a lot of ideas submitted that are already validated [...]
Session 3 of Launchpad continued with the two groups of students reporting back on their weeks. The first part of session 3 involved looking over and discussing everyone’s Landing Pages and it was great to see the students had all [...]
Session 2 of Launchpad kicked off with the students reporting back on their previous week since session 1. It is great to see and hear they had taken our suggestions and what we introduced in week 1. After opening up [...]
Session 2 of Launchpad kicked off with the students reporting back on their previous week since session 1. It is great to see and hear they had taken our suggestions and what we introduced in week 1. After opening up [...]
Session 1 of Launchpad began with our 15 teams splitting into two groups and presenting their customer research and feedback. In the last few weeks since our bootcamp day the students have all collected some great feedback on their ideas; [...]
Our Launchpad programme kicked off last week with an introductory Bootcamp for the 15 teams taking part! The busy and exciting day set up the framework for the next 12 weeks ahead. The programme focuses around the idea that there are no failures, only feedback on how [...]
Our Big Idea Challenge got bigger this year! We received over 200 applications from London Met students, alumni and staff for our Creative, Social Impact and Commercial categories. After whittling them down to our top 35 ideas we held our intensive 1 day Big Idea Bootcamp, to [...]
From 20-22 January, in partnership with the School of Computing and Digital Media at London Metropolitan University, we opened our doors and hosted a Global Game Jam event. Now the world's largest game development and creation event, Global Game Jam happens across multiple physical locations and [...]
The Fairtrade Gold Design Awards 2017 Entries are now open for the inaugural Fairtrade Gold Design Awards. Aimed at student jewellery designers, jewellery industry apprentices or those who have been working in the jewellery industry for three years or [...]
The biggest year in our history saw our 29 companies create an impressive 122 new jobs and raise a mind-boggling £8.8 million in funding (55% up on last year). Most excitingly they had a breakthrough year in terms of revenue, [...]
