From handcrafted jewellery to unique homeware, 2020 gifted us with all the Christmas decorations and festive essentials you could shake a yule log at! The 2020 Christmas Market showcased an amazing collective of talented designer-makers from across London Metropolitan University. [...]
After 12 intensive weeks of hard work, customer discovery and idea validation our Launchpad programme came to an end after culminating with a final pitching day on 17 September 2020. Having run the entire programme this year remotely, we [...]
When starting a new business or if you're moving into freelance work, having a presence on social media can be a great way to test your product or service with customers. Social media is also a great alternative to [...]
Launchpad, London Met’s flagship startup business programme gives students and graduates the knowledge, tools, support and momentum needed to fast track a business idea into a viable startup venture. Run by the Student Enterprise team based at Accelerator every [...]
On Thursday 18 June, we hosted and live-streamed the 2020 Big Idea Challenge Awards from Accelerator, London Met's business incubator. During our online awards evening we announced all of the competition category winners, the People's Choice winner and our overall [...]
This year’s Big Idea Challenge has once again blown us away, having uncovered a treasure trove of amazing ideas and the passionate people behind them. More than 200 London Met students, graduates and staff entered this year, and the [...]
On Wednesday 11 March over 40 students and graduates of London Metropolitan University and Kings University of London joined the 2020 London Venture Crawl. The daylong event takes students on an epic entrepreneurial journey across the capital to experience and explore London’s Startup [...]
Social enterprises are businesses with predominantly a social or environmental objective. So, for students looking to make the world a better place through business, we recently ran Hack For Good, our very own 48 hour social enterprise focused hackathon at [...]
Recently we ran Startup Sprint at Accelerator, one of our most popular programmes for students looking to learn new entrepreneurial skills, develop business ideas and practice their presentation and pitching. Accelerator is London Met University's business incubator and specialises in [...]
Big Idea School and College Bootcamp Day 2020 On Monday 2 March, Accelerator ran the Big Idea Challenge for 18 Schools and Colleges from across London at The Natwest Bishopsgate Conference Centre. Working alongside the London Met Schools and Colleges [...]
