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Next Event – speaker confimed -January 26th – Social Entrepreneurship
January 5, 2009, 12:28 pm
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this will be our first event with a guest speaker who has just been confirmed. Tony Clabby from Unltd. Tony is a great guest as he is not only a social entrepreneur himself but also works for Unltd, a charity offering support and finance to social entrepreneurs wishing to start a venture. check out their site www.unltd.org.uk.

Also big thanks to Alun severn from BSSEC for arranging this. BSSEC is stands for Birmingham and Solihull Social Economy Consortium, check out there  site www.bssec.org.uk



Wikinomics event report
November 18, 2008, 4:59 pm
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Yesterday’s event went well, Thanks to all those who attended.

There were several last min cancellations and to add to this I naively forgot to send out event reminders a day or two before.

For those who missed the event I will be producing an online presentation about Wikinomics



Wikinomics_subject of next event
November 4, 2008, 9:06 pm
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paper back cover of 1st ed. I think this ones the best

paper back cover of 1st ed. I think this ones the best
Wikinomics catches a moment in time and that moment is now…Wikinomics is about web 2.0 and its potential economic/business impact. The key charcteristics of wikinonics are ‘openness, peering, sharing, and acting globally’ These are traits of ‘Net Gen’ (14-30yrs olds) the first generation who have grown up digital. With the emergence of web 2.0 and continuing technological advancements many production costs lower. Everyone now has the chance to create and even cocreate within a global world, connected through the communities of web2.0. We are approaching the age of true Free Enterprise, and that’s good news for all of us even the socialists!
Build Enterprise presents : Wikinomics the future of business
Monday 17th October
18:30 - 22:30 @ Bohemia Cafe Bistro (www.eatbohemia.co.uk) 23 Oak Tree Lane, Selly Oak, Birmingham
On the night the key points raised by Wikinomics will be presented to the group. Following this the ideas brought forward by the book will be opened up for discussion, feel free to raise topics for yourself and expect to get deep as we delve into the minds of fellow entrepreneurs to discuss the future…
The evening wont be a substitution for reading the book. Its highly advised that you get yourself a copy and join the revolution…
See you soon

 

 

 

 

 

 


First Ventures event report
September 17, 2008, 6:18 pm
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Thanks to our speakers and all those inattendance

A highly inspirational evening for all with some great feed back



First Ventures – 2nd event
September 1, 2008, 5:11 pm
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Build Enterprise

The Young Entrepreneurs Network

presents

‘First Ventures’

4 young entrepreneurs tell their story

http://www.isambard-dm.com/

www.purplefrogproperty.com

http://www.yoonee.com/

http://www.original.bham.ac.uk/ourstudents/angelamurray.shtml

Tuesday 16th September

@ Bohemia in Selly Oak

18:00 – 22:30



1st Event
May 12, 2008, 9:08 pm
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Our First event (May 2007) was for SPEED participants to present their ideas. 14 people were originally going to attend but with it being exam time only 7 could make it on the day, despite this the event went really well and in hindsight might of benefited from the smaller number. We split the event between 2 venues the Uni and Bohemia Cafe Bistro www.eatbohemia.co.uk. The uni had the presentation facilities but the red tape wouldn’t allow us eat there.

Originally I had said that people attending have 5mins presentation with 5 min Q&A, but with the small numbers it became a 10min presentation, with 20min open  about ideas. It was great, everyone was enthused with so many ideas and each buiness developed in some way or another. 

After talks at Uni we headed to Bohemia for food and drink. After dinner, our Host Andrew and Chef Ross, the entrepreneurs behind Bohemia, gave us some tips they’d picked up on the way. As did their mate, and our special guest, Kerri, the co-founder of ‘High-Life Hookahs’. Europe’s biggest and best distributor and manufacture of hookah/sisha pipes www.high-lifehookahs.com. Then after food, we all played some Beer pong,  www.iwantbeerpong.com, an American drinking game distributed in the UK by two ex Birmingham Students who are SPEED participants.

That night everyone went home happy, fulfilled and excited. Furthermore the atmosphere, discussion and enthused people, had proved to us that Build Enterprise was wanted and would be successful.




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