The stories of mega-million dollar businesses popping up out of someone’s garage are becoming more and more common. They’re usually run by an unkempt high school or college drop out with too much talent to be sitting around in university lectures. Most start ups don’t begin this way, despite how the media makes us feel (so please don’t...
By day 3, we’d figured out the secret to being a good presenter at a conference…acronyms! Speakers were throwing them at us from all directions, especially on the final day as our focus turned to social innovation, entrepreneurship (a word I have never in my life spelt correctly) and leadership. We learnt that start-ups get money from FFFs...
CECS and the City Episode 2: SDG Number Five This is me doing me best to smile through the cold NY weather. When you get a group of really ambitious people together, it can be the perfect dose of motivation for a young person. On day 2 of the conference we heard from some women and men who...
