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Joanne Deans New Ideas Competition Launch with Workshops @ GCU

Anthony came along to Caledonian today to deliver three workshops; Negotiation, Creativity and Innovation and Starting up your own business/enterprise. The workshops ran from 11 until 3, with a break for some well earned lunch in between. The event turned out a real success and Anthony's workshops hit the right note with those who attended. Some students stayed for all three! Around 30 people attended over the course of the workshops and we managed to collect further contacts as well as useful f… Continue

Added by Joanne Deans on November 19, 2009 at 9:39pm — No Comments

Joanne Deans New Ideas Competition Launch with Workshops @ GCU

Anthony came along to Caledonian today to deliver three workshops; Negotiation, Creativity and Innovation and Starting up your own business/enterprise. The workshops ran from 11 until 3, with a break for some well earned lunch in between. The event turned out a real success and Anthony's workshops hit the right note with those who attended. Some students stayed for all three! Around 30 people attended over the course of the workshops and we managed to collect further contacts as well as useful f… Continue

Added by Joanne Deans on November 19, 2009 at 9:39pm — No Comments

Heather Purdie Think Outside the Box Challenge and the Enterprise Awards Dinner

HAPPY ENTERPRISE WEEEEEK !!!!!!!! We kick started the week with our 'Think Outside the Box Challenge' in the Strathclyde Union on Monday night. Having scraped together 25 boxes, plastic bottles, carrier bags and post-its using various means (some questionable), me and Dawn, with the help of our chivalrous boss Tony, transported all of the above to the Union where we were expecting staggering numbers to participate in our Global Entrepreneurship Week event. We were not disappointed. We had 55 s… Continue

Added by Heather Purdie on November 19, 2009 at 11:13am — No Comments

Joanne Deans GCU Enterprise Society First Meeting - The Brightest Crayons

Kirsty and I held the re-launch meeting of the GCU Enterprise Society on Thursday night. .We were pleased with the turn out, although it was a fairly small group, those who did come along were not short of enthusiasm or ideas. We announced the winner or our £25 cash prize competition and the winning name four our society "The Brightest Crayons - GCU Enterprise Society" The meeting itself was relaxed but maintained focus, as we explored and discussed the expectations, ideas and preferences of t… Continue

Added by Joanne Deans on November 13, 2009 at 8:51pm — 1 Comment

Kevin J.C. Laing HOW TO MAKE A MILLION BEFORE YOU TURN 20

The Scottish Institute for Enterprise in Aberdeen is proud to present : The Business Ideas Competition with Guest Speaker: FRASER DOHERTY founder of SUPERJAM. Exclusive free talk at The Lemon Tree: FRASER DOHERTY: "HOW TO MAKE A MILLION BEFORE YOU TURN 20". SuperJam™ is a range of 100% pure fruit jams; sweetened with grape juice and made using Super Fruits, such as blueberries and cranberries. SuperJam was created by Scottish teenager Fraser Doherty, after being taught to make jam using his… Continue

Added by Kevin J.C. Laing on November 10, 2009 at 6:00pm — No Comments

Elizabeth Habgood Movie Night

On the 29th of November we hosted our movie night, a showing of the very entertaining movie 'Cocktail'. If anyone has not seen it you really should it is a classic and if you haven't seen it for a while it is well worth watching again. It was a slow start at 5.50pm we had one person, but the room began to fill up and by 6.30pm we had around 35 students. We did a little quiz and asked viewere to spot the entrepreneurial traits in the movie and offered a prixe of a box of choc and mini champagne.… Continue

Added by Elizabeth Habgood on November 2, 2009 at 1:45pm — 1 Comment

Amanda Jones Vote for us before 5pm today and help us win £50,000 worth of business support!

I was wondering if you might might spare me a few minutes of your time! Red Button Design needs your help: We're one step away from The Pitch 2009 grand final We need your support to get to the final of a massive UK small business competition, “The Pitch 2009”. We’re really pleased to have reached the regional final, but it’s up to the public to vote us through into the London grand final, where we’ll have to present our business to a panel of experts including an ex-TV Dragon an… Continue

Added by Amanda Jones on November 2, 2009 at 12:30pm — No Comments

Kirsty Hunter Screensavers and New Ideas Launch

SIE_Event Poster.pdf Take a look at the file above- it is our poster for our New Ideas Launch, which we are so excited about! Please come along as Joanne and I would love to have you! I also wanted to let everyone know that in the library of GCU the SIE screensavers are on every computer for the full month of November! This is in line with… Continue

Added by Kirsty Hunter on November 2, 2009 at 11:16am — No Comments

Gordon McIntosh New Idea Competiton

Entries have just closed for the UHI 2009 New Idea Competition. All I have to do now is get copies of the entries across to the judging panel for their first round of judging - HELP - we have had a massive amount of entries! Thank you to the interns in Perth for their help in promoting the competition within their college, they were great. Our finals take place on the 17th in Inverness, great speakers, superb opportunity for networking, fantastic food and lots of money to give away! Regrettabl… Continue

Added by Gordon McIntosh on October 29, 2009 at 12:26pm — 1 Comment

Therese Nilsson First entry from Perth - Fresher's Fair and class talks

I’m guessing you have all been waiting impatiently, wondering why those Perthians are keeping so quiet. Well, the long wait is finally over - behold our first blog entry... In the beginning of October we held a stall with a dart competition at Fresher’s Fair, handing out about a million lollies (I had 5 myself) and holding a dart competition with a High Street voucher prize. The winner scored an impressive 129 points (also impressive was my fellow student intern Tyler who scored 130 on h… Continue

Added by Therese Nilsson on October 26, 2009 at 6:00pm — 2 Comments

Hilary Singer Idea Generation Workshop wrap-up

Tonight we had our second event with iCUE, an entrepreneurship society on campus. This one was an Idea Generation Workshop, led by one of the guys at SIE’s head office (Anthony Ives). Anthony raised some interesting points, and clued us all in to some current trends in product design. Anthony’s lessons: 1. Don’t wait for your idea to be “perfect”. You’ll never get there, and while you’re busy perfecting, you’ll probably miss your market opportunity. 2. Prototype early. Your prototype need not… Continue

Added by Hilary Singer on October 15, 2009 at 8:50pm — No Comments

Heather Purdie Executive Board

Strathclyde Enterprise Society now has an Executive Board !!!!!!!!! How exciting!!! Dawn and I held elections last night and students were asked to pitch to the Society as to why they should be elected to their chosen post. We now have a VERY enthusiastic team; Managing Director Secretary Finance Director Marketing Director Events Director IT Director and then these guys have a solid team of helpers for their department :D. This is great for me and Dawn - got some solid support for t… Continue

Added by Heather Purdie on October 15, 2009 at 4:19pm — 2 Comments

Joanne Deans The Caledonian - The Chance to Shine

"The Caledonain" GCU's staff publication- this month features a piece on Kirsty and I and our role as SIE Interns. The Chance to Shine Right now it’s a challenging time to be a student, with the recession making the employment market and the future uncertain. However, Glasgow Caledonian students are get… Continue

Added by Joanne Deans on October 15, 2009 at 3:43pm — 1 Comment

Amanda Dobbratz Twitter competition

Hello all you enterprising students! You should enter SIE's twitter competition. All you have to do is tweet 'RT@_sie_ I'm an entrepreneur' If you're a student you will be entered into a prize draw to win £150. The competition closes on Friday Oct 23rd. More info at http://www.twitter.com/_sie_ Hope you're well! Amanda SIE Intern Coordinator Continue

Added by Amanda Dobbratz on October 15, 2009 at 2:47pm — No Comments

Ronan Lynch PaperClip #2......

And so the big hullaballoo about how One Red PaperClip can be transformed into a house has been and gone - and what have we learned? Well for one the PaperClip is a source of socially engaging people in conversations that were once daunting, and also in times unlike the 'R' word that we are currently in, one of our contestants might have walked off, drove off in a Toyota. Alas in the 'Pre-Boom- era that we are in, his ploy feel short of winning over the Dundalk car salesmen though he gets… Continue

Added by Ronan Lynch on October 14, 2009 at 10:22am — 2 Comments

Joanne Deans National Meeting

Hey Guys and Girls, I believe the regional meeting this Saturday 17th October, will be held at Glasgow Caledonian. Anyone struggling to find the place or where we are meeting (enterance of the Saltire Centre) - feel free to send me a email/message or give me a call. I hope you all feel welcome! Looking forward to catching up with everyone - see you all Saturday! Joanne (GCAL) Continue

Added by Joanne Deans on October 13, 2009 at 8:29pm — 1 Comment

Maria Pittman How To Start a Graduate School Essay?

?Do you commence with a story? ?Do you begin with a reflection on the focus of your forthcoming graduate studies? ?Do you start at the beginning? And where exactly is that? If you want your graduate essay to grab the attention of the graduate admission representative, then keep reading this article… The graduate admissions committee is looking for a snapshot of you – ?Where you've been, ?Where you want to go, and ?what you w… Continue

Added by Maria Pittman on October 10, 2009 at 8:25am — No Comments

Dawn McKerracher Society Launch!

It's been a pretty exciting night at Strathclyde! Heather & I decided last week that we really had to move the launch of our Enterprise Society forward, whilst it was still fresh in minds after Fresher's Fair. So although we didn't have as much time to plan and promote the event as much as we would've liked, it turned out to be a great success! The initial 10 people sipping on drinks around a sofa having a chat about what SIE do and why we are creating an Enterprise Society very quickly tu… Continue

Added by Dawn McKerracher on October 7, 2009 at 11:13pm — 3 Comments

Heather Purdie Diet Coke / Company Creative Entrepreneur Competition

Follow your dream with £5000 from Diet Coke In our recent campaign with Diet Coke we asked readers what they really want from life? And a huge 84% of you came back to us saying you'd go against the grain for something you knew was right for you. So now we're offering you the chance to break fre… Continue

Added by Heather Purdie on October 1, 2009 at 2:46pm — 1 Comment

Heather Purdie Strathclyde Freshers' Fair

Me and Dawn ran the successful Strathclyde Enterprise Society stall at the Freshers' Fair on Wednesday the 23rd September. Everyone involved had a great day and we generated lots of potential interest in the society. Dawn secured us a £50 voucher for a fancy meal in The Dhabba Indian Restaurant in Glasgow's… Continue

Added by Heather Purdie on September 26, 2009 at 12:01pm — 3 Comments

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