Simon Dunn is a Multichannel Retailer who has spent the last 15 years working for Sainsburys and Tesco and who recently escaped to set up his own e-commerce business. www.meetup.com/iStartup/ is a new community of people who are in the early stage of the starting their business, where members meet to discuss ideas and share their professional expertise [...]
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Escape member Carlo talks about what he’s learned about PR from working with Adzuna, a tech start-up that gathers job ads from around the web and displays them on one website. When he collaborated in the launch, there was a great list of interested journos, a strategy to reach these according to their influence, a [...]
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On Tuesday we held our first startup course at the Hub Westminster – over 40 attendees, 8 modules, tons of mini Mars bars, and lots of inspiring ideas about effective startup development. How did it go? Rob and I usually base our assessment of the day on attendee feedback… “This was a really engaging, intellectually stimulating [...]
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You can follow Ed’s journey at www.bangkok2birmingham.com and request an invite to Dromomaniacs at www.dromomaniacs.com In case you are wondering the title isn’t a typo. I’m not quite sure if it’s a word which works, or has even been used before, but I thought it was pretty apt to describe how I feel at the [...]
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John Williams is author of best-selling book “Screw Work, Let’s Play (How to do what you love & get paid for it)”, described by The Sunday Times as “A compelling 10-step escape from corporate life that could spell a rash of resignation letters”. What if everything you’d been told about careers, work, and success [...]
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This is a guest post from our friend and adventurer Al Humphreys… Please read it, watch the video and then kick on back to his site to get involved in the conversation. —————————————— A while ago I wrote about the idea of the 5 to 9 microadventure. Rather than feeling inhibited by our 9-to-5 working commitments, [...]
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Tillie Sklair is an organiser and co-founder of YTFN, an organisation that raises money for social change projects and hopes to inspire young people to give more creatively. ”If you think you are too small to make a difference, you have never spent a night in a room with a mosquito.” Imagine a room filled with [...]
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We were talking at Escape HQ about how we’re all spending Valentine’s Day tomorrow, and I wanted to remind you about a great option in central London. Whether you’re planning to celebrate February 14th as a day of love, or choosing to ignore the commercial conspiracy perpetuated by Hallmark, I wanted to share some [...]
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This post is part of a warmup for our Startup 101 courses happening on Feb 19th and Feb 25th (as well as these dates here) – remaining spaces still available, and you can have a sneak peek at the prep book (full of useful links and resources) here. An attendee for one of the startup workshops asked the following: “I have [...]
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We recently ran a scholarship contest for our upcoming startup course: An Introduction to Building a Startup. Winner Craig Roberts talks about why he applied. Why you’re coming to startup 101? Like many people, I made the mistake of spending years and years focusing on making money rather than having the guts to go and [...]
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Escape member Kate Jackson runs fantastic dinners for those wanting to leave the City. She shares her story about what she’s learned here. “I recently met a friend who is looking to leave law and start his own business. Having taken this path myself, I shared my experiences and offered what advice I could. I [...]
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A note from Rob: Freddie Tucker left his safe, comfortable job in finance to run a Horse Safari operation in the middle of the Okavango Delta in Botswana. In this interview he talked me through his escape and the reality of his life today. NB: This April 8 Escape members are going to join Freddie [...]
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This post is part of a warmup for our Startup 101 courses happening on Feb 19th and Feb 25th (as well as these dates here) – remaining spaces still available, and you can have a sneak peek at the prep book (full of useful links and resources) here. I was listening to this Macklemore song and it reminded me how the talks [...]
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We live in a networked world. We crowd-fund what makes us curious. We click feverishly for our causes. We fan, follow, pin, tag, tweet & txt. But is our ‘hyper-connectivity’ really leading to a bright future or is it driving disconnection between each of us and our increasingly fragile natural resources? For the past 6 [...]
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This post is part of a warmup for our Startup 101 courses happening on Feb 19th and Feb 25th (as well as these dates here) – remaining spaces still available, and you can have a sneak peek at the prep book (full of useful links and resources) here. “We need more females in startups” seems like a sexist and obvious statement. [...]
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Pat Larsen is a former Navy helicopter pilot and investment banker. Now a tech entrepreneur (www.profitics.com) and writer (www.patricklarsen.com) that travels with his growing family. As the band Rage Against the Machine put it in Guerilla Radio: It has to start somewhere It has to start sometime What better place than here, what better time than now? [...]
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Navin Chohan is an Escape member attending our Startup MBA (if you’d like to join us too, click here). My story I’m a medical doctor but got a taste for working in business when I was still at medical school. After qualifying I spent a year working as an editor with the British Medical Journal Publishing Group [...]
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Louis Sayers is a Growth Hacker at Forward Labs, where he works across numerous startups to improve user acquisition, retention and value. MakersAcademy.com is an example of the type of company Louis works with to help drive growth. Let’s face it. Startups are the ‘in’ thing right now. You want one, I want one, and we’ve all got [...]
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Kathryn McGeough is an Escape member attending our Startup 101 course on February 19th (if you’d like to join us too, more details are here). My story I am an ex-banking professional who has embarked on a life of entrepreneurship. In 2011, I became a member of the inaugural class of the New Entrepreneurs Foundation, a programme which [...]
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I got lots of advice when I was starting my first business, and a lot of it was crap, but that’s okay. I was asking crappy questions; I was a neophyte, that’s what neophytes do. Plus, I was 21, and what does anyone know when they’re 21? Years have passed and it’s not like I [...]
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