Presentations, Videos & Other Resources
Previous event speakers:
- Sophi Tranchell MBE - MD of Divine Chocolate talks about how social enterprise works. [Watch the video here]
- Tom Druitt - MD of The Big Lemon talks about his experience of setting up a social enterprise. [Watch the video here]
Presentations:
- Making Ideas Happen - presentation by Melanie Farmer (Sussex Innovation Centre), November 2012
- How to Think Like an Entrepreneur - presentation by Neil Almond (Whatever Life Throws Ltd), June 2013
- StartUp Sussex: Application Process - how to apply for StartUp Sussex, July 2013
Sector Guide:
- Enterprise and Freelancing Sector Guide - this guide is for people who want to start up a new business, work freelance, or work as a consultant
News Articles:
- Picking winners: why so many new firms love awards. [Link to article, BBC]
- Sussex encouraged me to become the person I am today, says entrepreneur - Zhang Xin, regarded as one of the world's most powerful women and successful business entrepreneurs, talks about her time at Sussex
- Marketing graduate's Yog Oat drink set for launch into Budgens - A new yoghurt and oat drink, launched by a 22 year-old marketing graduate from the University of Sussex, has won a listing with Budgens
Useful Websites:
- Intellectual Property Office - The Intellectual Property Office can help you get the right type of protection for your creation or invention
- Design Council - an enterprising charity who aim to inspire new design thinking, encourage public debate and inform government policy to improve everyday life
- Inspire2Enterprise - a free-to-access service for the social enterprise sector providing information, specialist advice and support from start-up through initial growth and beyond
- LiveUnLtd - an organisation providing cash awards and one-to-one support to help entrepreneurs run their own projects
- Young Enterprise - the UK's largest business and enterprise education charity
- 6W2X - a social enterprise start-up incubator for student start-ups with a six-week exit strategy
- The FuseBox Amp - searching for six of the most promising and ambitious people who are in the process of starting innovative creative or digital business projects, and providing them with 4 weeks of radically different learning and support