Locked Down And Looking Up “Don’t lose your ambition. This situation is unparalleled. Many have the instinct to hunker down, think small. When economies shrink, there are opportunities you will never find any other time.” – Margaret Heffernan It is in Entrepreneurial Spark’s nature to turn a problem into an opportunity, look forward and rock…
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See our social media channels for the other episodes in the series. Conquer with Curiosity: Our Head of Entrepreneurial Development, Fay Watkin shares why, more than ever, we need to remain ‘curious’ as entrepreneurs and leaders. As week two of lockdown begins, for many of us the shock has started to subside, and we are…
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or insert New Year cliché here….. New Year, new you? Cliché. Reinvention in the world of the entrepreneur is continual. Success is built on incremental step changes, made on the fly. Every day entrepreneurs have to choose to get out of their comfort zone, take action and grow, or stay safe. New Year (and New…
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By Mike Stephens, CEO, Entrepreneurial Spark I’m not a software engineer. I don’t know what a container, stack or kernel is, and I find even trying to describe an API a bit like trying to explain the offside rule. And until May 2016, I had never heard of “Open Source”. So it was with fascination…
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Independent wedding boutique, The Bridal Emporium, celebrates its 5th birthday in style. If you saw a group of women dressed as brides traipsing around Leeds a few weeks ago, chances are, you were witnessing the all-female team behind fashionable wedding boutique the Bridal Emporium. To mark the shops fifth year in business and inspired by…
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We were astounded by the number of applications we had for our Ignite powered by Entrepreneurial Spark hub in Bermuda. Bermuda is a small island in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean with a population of around 65,000. So, to receive 178 applications for 15 places in the hub, really overwhelmed us. But there is…
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Entrepreneurial Spark have teamed up with Brunel University and the British Design Fund to pilot Entrepreneurial Pulse, a groundbreaking research study and thirty of our alumni business leaders are participating in the pilot. Entrepreneurial Pulse will understand entrepreneurs inside out. The aim is to be the UK’s most significant research investigation into the different types of entrepreneurs and…
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Michelle Nicklin – Sandstone Yoga The real business journey began when I joined an accelerator… I love yoga. I have loved yoga for over 30 years. I had a growing yoga and Pilates business and when one of my private clients said in my studio you are very entrepreneurial you should try ESpark, I did…
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Since we found a new home for our UK accelerators 12 months ago, we have been spreading our wings to champion entrepreneurs globally. Now we’re back having just launched two new programmes in the UK, and we want to share some of what we have learned to help you in your own journey. Where have…
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MY, how we’ve missed you! 12 months ago we returned to our entrepreneurial roots. Our team, hubs and entrepreneurs were safely huddled in their new home at Royal Bank of Scotland, and we went back into startup mode – exploring, discovering, testing. We’ve been riding the entrepreneurial rollercoaster along with you and as expected, it…
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