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🚀 eClub Hub - Entrepreneurship Club Newsletter 25-02-22

Christiana Osarenren - Friday, February 25, 2022
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Dear [FIRST_NAME],

eClub Hub

Bringing you regular updates from your LBS startup community

We hope your previous weeks have been purposeful and productive. We are back again bringing you the exciting activities and content for your LBS entrepreneurship community. Enjoy🥳

Make sure to follow eClub on all social media platforms to stay up to date on the latest news and activities.

📢Upcoming Events

🚨 HackLBS is Here 🚨

The Annual Flagship Hackathon starts today, Fri, 25th Feb. 📅 Let the innovation begin! 💥

Where: North Building

We've received an overwhelming response from engineers, designers, entrepreneurs and tech enthusiasts from all around the UK and beyond. We're all set for a thrilling weekend filled with ideas and innovation. We are looking forward to seeing you at the hackathon! 🤩

BCG DV and IEPC have sponsored exciting cash prizes within each theme and £3000 worth of prizes are to be won 💸. For more information on themes and daily schedule please visit: https://www.hack.eclublbs.com/

Twice a month, on Tuesday, Springboard is your main touch point for everything entrepreneurship at LBS. Did you join our iDEA night on February 15th? We had over 80 people come together for a fun and informative session where students discussed their ideas with peers from the same industry! Who knows, we may even see a few unicorns in the near future! 

On Feb 22nd, we hosted James Chance (MBA 2019), former Googler and startup founder, and talked about building MVPs. He illustrated examples from his journey with yourself.online, an idea he first started developing at LBS’ Hackathon. With the next edition of Hackathon here, we wish everyone taking part the best of luck!  

The next event is on 1st March. We are hosting Terra, an API company that makes it easy for developers to access fitness and health. We will be discussing their journey so far and the healthtech industry. As usual, see you on Tuesday in Sussex Place dining room.

How to Build a Pitch Deck

Tech & Media Club Presents: Fintech Community Kick-off:

Date: 11:15am – 12:30pm Wed, 02 March 2022

Where: Sussex Place, LT6

Join TMC's Fintech Community, with Professor Lil Mohan and guest speaker Marieke Flament (MBA11), for the inaugural session on what is (and isn't) fintech. The session plans to discuss the biggest trends impacting the sector, recruiting in fintech, and upcoming events from TMC's Fintech Community!

Entrepreneur's Journey: How to get investment ready with Keith Wiley

7pm - 8:30pm Wed, 02 Mar 2022

Where: Sussex Place

An interactive session for start-ups or would-be entrepreneurs on how to get investment-ready. Fundraising to start or grow a business is typically a time-consuming, frustrating and costly exercise that can be an unwelcome distraction from the day-to-day running of the business. Adjunct Associate Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship Keith Willey, who runs Enterprise 100, the School’s angel network.

This talk is part of the Entrepreneur's Journey series hosted by the IEPC

‘Private Capital: A view from the top’ with Nigel Morris, Co-Founder of QED Investors:

Date: 7pm – 9pm Mon, 08 Mar 2022

Location: Sammy Ofer Centre LT18/19

LBS alumnus Nigel Morris, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of QED Investors, a fintech venture capital firm, will be in a fireside chat with Professor Luisa Alemany. Professor Alemany is Academic Director of IEPC. QED Investors is a fintech venture capital platform focused on disruptive, high-growth financial services companies. Its numerous unicorn investments include Credit Karma, NuBank and Klarna.

How to Incorporate your Company & Legal 101 with David Farquharson (London Law Collective)

Date: 6pm Tue, 08 Mar 2022

The biggest mistakes made by startups are typically made at the initial formation of the business, in the early stages of growth, and when dealing with employees.

Join this session to hear from David Farquharson, Founder of London Law Collective about how to incorporate your company and avoid the most common legal mistakes made by startup.

Launchpad 2022 Cohort💫

Launchpad officially kicked off workshops for its 2022 cohort, with Alexander Grots from EWOR introducing them to Business Vision and Design Thinking. This year’s cohort includes 17 teams with unique ideas ranging from fintech and B2B commerce to fashion and entertainment - to learn more about them, click here. Building on last year’s diversity, 23.5% of the cohort are working professionals, and 17.6% targeting non-UK markets. Watch this space for regular progression stats and events on our 2022 cohort✨.

👍The Catchup

VC Podcast

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In the second episode, James Chappel, Founder & Chief Innovation Officer at Digital Shadows, talks to us about the early days of Digital Shadows and his decision to become an entrepreneur in the cybersecurity space, the collaboration with his co-founder, their fundraising journey, and their partnership with Storm Ventures. 

Follow us on Season 1 of the London Business School Entrepreneurship Club's podcast 'Those who launched 🚀: The pilots and the propellant' where our host, Eleanna Sfyra Ragkousi MiFPT2022, talks with #venturecapitalists and #founders from their portfolio companies to learn the tricks and challenges of building a business.

 

🥳 Call for Applications!!🎉

Thank you to the Institute of Entrepreneurship and Private Capital!

IEPC promotes entrepreneurship and highlights private capital for ventures within our LBS ecosystem and external strategic partners. Find out more about who they are up close and their different endeavours.

Health tech Challenge

The Mayor’s Entrepreneur Competition

is currently underway and is looking for business ideas to make London cleaner, greener, and ready for the future. This year there are five awards each with a £20,000 prize fund. Please sign up for the free workshop to support students in developing business ideas ahead of the competition deadline on Sun, 13 Mar 2022.

How to Write a Compelling Application Workshop

Applications Open for ERA’s Summer ‘22 Accelerator Program:

Application Deadline: Mon, 25 Apr 2022

The Entrepreneurs’ Roundtable Accelerator invests $100K seed funding and gives entrepreneurs from across the globe access to NYC’s largest mentor network of 1,000+ industry leaders and the strongest alumni network of 265+ companies. ERA is hosting virtual events and office hours to support applicants.

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