Get ready for July  22nd 2010

The IED Business Plan competition will be offering a selected group of 5 teams from the IED course an opportunity to present their business plans to a panel of professional investors to compete for a prize of £10,000.

IED teams will only be selected to enter the competition if:

• They submit a convincing positive business case at the end of IED, and
• The team members demonstrate an interest in continuing to develop the project into a business

Please see the guidelines on the website to prepare yourself for the steps to take should you be selected:

http://www.imperial.ac.uk/entrepreneurship/services/competition/student-guidelines

presents

Entrepreneurs Mentoring Dinner

Wednesday, June 2^nd @ 6pm

Lower Ground Floor, Tanaka Building

Dress Code: Business Formal

You are cordially invited to an exclusive dinner and mentoring session with a group of successful entrepreneurs and charter members of the UK chapter of TiE, the world’s largest organization fostering entrepreneurship. The event will involve discussion sessions with the mentors, followed by a networking dinner. This is a great opportunity for prospective entrepreneurs to get advice and receive the mentors’ insights on their own entrepreneurial journeys.

TiE (www.tie.org) is a non-profit network committed to promoting entrepreneurship globally through mentoring, networking and education. Founded in 1992 by a group of successful entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley, corporate executives, and senior professionals with roots in the Indus Region, TiE today has over 2,500 Charter Members and over 10,500 members with 55 Chapters in 13 countries.

The Mentors*:

-       Davinder Mann

-       George Coelho

-       Indranil Basu

-       Mohammed Raja

-       Richard Lee

-       Sanjeev Ahuja

-       Selina Sagayam

-       Tushar Dasghose

-       Was Rahman

-       Roop Chandwani

-       Purvi Sapre

-       Moti Shahani

-       Stuart Nicol

Schedule:

18:00 – 18:45  Arrival and reception drinks

18:45 – 20:25  Mentoring Sessions

20:25 – 21:30  Dinner

Entrepreneurs Interactive in collaboration with Design London

present

The Entrepreneurial Journey:

Design-led Innovation tried and tested by Design London’s Incubator Ventures

A panel discussion with two exciting ventures currently supported by its Incubator - Loowatt and Plumis - as well as examining the legal side of a start-up.

6pm on 27th May 2010:

LGR, Tanaka Building, Imperial College Business School

Panel:

Plumis, Design London Incubator venture

LooWatt, Design London Incubator venture

Oliver Van Emden, Incubator Operations Manager – Design London

Moderator:

Dr. Nick Leon, Director – Design London

We would like to thank Fergus, for finding the time for to come talk with us, and helping the Entrepreneurs Interactive members get some sense of how to build a relationship with his different bodies within his department.

Fergus Harradence will be discussing the public sector’s perspective on venture capital; the forms of support that the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills offer to high-tech, high growth businesses; and the wider rationale for innovation policy and why such policies exist at national and EU level.

Mr.  Harradence is the Deputy Director for Innovation Policy for the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills. He is covering all aspects of domestic innovation policy in the UK, including strategy and communications, sponsorship of the Technology Strategy Board, working with the Regional Development Agencies on innovation at regional level, and fiscal and investment policies that impact on investment in innovation.

Chat with us for a drink and some nibbles after the talk

Date                       08 Mar 2010

Time                       18.00 to 19.00

Venue                  LT 1, Tanaka Building, Business School

a 29 years old overachiever and a serial entrepreneur. His current venture eToro.com, is a groundbreaking Forex trading platform that has managed to overcome the technological barrier preventing novice traders from entering the Forex market. Envisioned Forex software that utilizes visual trade representations and intuitive trading interfaces to make Forex simple and user-friendly.

His company grew to employ around 120 people within 2 years of its funding.
Jonathan will be coming to speak about how to build a leading team.

Date                       09 Mar 2010

Time                       14.30 to 15.30

Venue                   LT 2, Tanaka Building, Business School

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Where:
Imperial College Business School, South Kensington Campus, London SW7 2AZ (map)

This session will cover talks by three successful entrepreneurs and business people, Dr. Frank Noppel, Simon Zutshi and Heloise Agelou. It would be a perfect opportunity for students who want to start their own business to learn from the speakers experiences. Come Join us for

They will discuss various aspects of starting a new venture including:

- Building up on the entrepreneurial idea followed by successful implementation
- Focus on obtaining the PE / VC funding for the project
- Risks involved in starting a new business and the hiccups and hurdles faced in the process.
- 4 different strategies to buy / control property with none of your own money.

Speakers Background:

Dr. Frank Noppel

Dr. Frank Noppel has launched his own start-up company Ambeo Ltd (www.flyambeo.com) – an ‘on demand’ air-taxi company offering new solutions for executive air travel, utilising technically-advanced very light jets (VLJs). Dr. Noppel is a PhD from Cranfield University. He is the winner of, Kings Norton Medal, the most prestigious honour for any student across Cranfield University, along with several other prizes.

Ms. Heloise Agelou

Ms. Heloise Agelou has started Hagelou, (www.hagelou.com), a global equestrian management company. Hagelou manages racehorses, where the horse owners are high net-worth individuals such as a celebrity or a MD or a CEO of a bank. Ms. Agelou’s role is to attract HNWI to involve them in the French horse racing industry.

Simon Zutshi (twitter)

Simon has been successfully investing in property since 1995. He became financially independent at the age of 32 thanks to the passive income from his multi million pound portfolio. Simon now spends his time helping and educating other investors to achieve the same success as him.

Simon is an international professional speaker, regularly asked to share his 14 years of property investing experience at major wealth creation events organised by the biggest names in the business such as Anthony Robbins and T Harv Eker His book “Property Magic” became an instant Amazon No 1 best seller when launched in 2008.

In 2003 Simon founded the property investors network which is now a national organisation which provides education, support and resources for investors, with monthly meeting in 8 major cities around the UK and over 10,000 members. Full details at www.propertyinvestorsnetwork.co.uk

In April 2007 Simon launched the original “Property Mastermind Programme” specifically designed to help people become professional investors with the objective of building a £1Million portfolio and gain a £50k income in just 12 months. This programme has created in excess of 35 property millionaires and continues to sell out every time due to the incredible results. Full details at www.property-mastermind.com

Number of seats are limited, please register, come and enjoy some drinks and nibbles after

Contacts:

• Entrepreneurs Interactive contact: Entrepreneurs Interactive official web site
• PE/VC Club contacts: andrii.iamshanov09@imperial.ac.uk or saumya.vardhan09@imperial.ac.uk

Time:

• 17:30-19:30

Where:

• Lower Ground Floor, LGR lecture room, Imperial College Business School, South Kensington Campus, London SW7 2AZ (map)

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For those that attended our networking event a few weeks ago, thank you very much for your support and positive feedback since then.  We shall be in touch very soon with news on our next event.

To keep the entrepreneurial juices flowing, please read this very interetesting article from The Economist….  

http://www.economist.com/specialreports/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13216025

Regards,

The Entrepreneurs Interactive Team

Just a quick post before we take a few weeks off for festivites and revision. We have had a great response to our mailing list email sent out a few weeks ago and it seems there are many of you who are trully enthusiastic and interested in Entrepreneurs Interactive.

We will be putting on our first ‘networking’ event shortly after exams are over and we will be lining up some speakers to come and talk to us throughout the year. We will be in contact to let you know the date for the first event in the new year.

Finally, please check out this site:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/inspire-innovate

It’s a very good source, particularly for those of you interested in innovation.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!!

-Entrepreneurs Interactive