What an inspiring story for anyone else on the dole. 18 year old Josh found himself out of work and bought an ice-cream trike off ebay for £1000 as a way to make money. He’s hiring the trike out for weddings and fetes. Brilliant!
This World Trade week are you trading globally and if not, why not? Let me know at the forum…
Have you ever been frustrated by something at school, had a brainwave on how to improve your educational experience…or just wanted to be on telly?
Student Voice has launched a competition to allow 11-19 year olds to have their say on school rules - by recording a video! Not only that, but entries are to be shown on Channel 4 (that’s the Hollyoaks Channel). The idea is to empower young people, giving them a voice amongst the policy-makers. For more information on ‘Manifesto for Change’, visit the website.
We love following the adventures of Make Your Mark Ambassadors, the inspiring entrepreneurs who support the campaign. So we were very excited to see Oliver Blackwell, Daily Mail Designer of the Year and a longterm Ambassador for Make Your Mark, make the short list of British Airways’ Great Britons competition.
Oliver has been selected from thousands of people across the country and is through to the public vote stage. The judges were impressed by Oliver’s groundbreaking design of a washing machine that washes, dries and irons clothes, and commented that his idea proves innovation is alive and flourishing in the UK.
Role Models ……what it is all about.
Well first of all I am the New Role Models Manager here at Make Your Mark.
Here at Make Your Mark we will be sharing much more inspiring stories of the beginning of the enterprise journey.
We will be exploring what it’s like to be a parent of an entrepreneur getting the background knowledge of what it’s really like to support our great entrepreneurs the highs and the lows. This is a chance influence others parents who might be about to take a step into the unknowns of supporting an entrepreneur.
The HSBC’s Future of Business report has identified four new types of future entrepreneurs.
1) The Referral Economists: commercially-minded folk who have emerged from the social networking boom. 2) The Slash Slash Careerist: the product of the MySpace School of business who see themselves as brands and their customers as fans. 3) The Collaborateer: walks the fine line between information and piracy where everything is negotiable.
And 4) The Transpreneur: an elite new breed of super-global entrepreneur with connections and workspaces all over the world, are set to dominate the British business environment.
We are glad to feature Rajeeb Dey, founder of enternships.com, as a guest blogger at Make Your Mark today:
“The story is a familiar one…on the one hand, large corporates are scaling back recruitment drives leaving graduates and university students with few ‘traditional’ routes to find experience. On the other, start-ups and small/medium businesses (SMEs) need highly skilled, motivated and creative people to roll their sleeves up and get involved in working with them in growing their businesses. These small firms struggle to find efficient ways to reach out to these candidates as they do not have the time or budgets to go out on campuses to do the traditional ‘milkround’.
Make Your Mark Challenge 2009 - Tender Opportunity
Make Your Mark is looking for the support of one organisation to manage the regional stage of its flagship enterprise competition for schools and colleges, the Make Your Mark Challenge. This is a unique opportunity to work at a national scale and make a visible contribution to the delivery of quality enterprise activity across the UK. The contract runs from 1 August – 31 January with the main period of work occurring between 16 November – 27 November 2009. Consortium bids accepted.
Please email Tori James, Project Manager, Make Your Mark Challenge for more information: [email protected]
Application Deadline: 12 June 2009
At 26 years old, he started Britain’s first venture capital firm, Apax Partners. By the 1990s he had grown it to be Europe’s biggest. It now has £32 billion assets under management.
Meet Sir Ronald Cohen, the father of British venture capital.
Last night, I had the privilege of hearing him speak, and entranced I was! He truly is the Don of entrepreneurship. He spoke about the need to focus on social entrepreneurship (he’s now started the Portland Trust promoting peace and stability between Palestinians and Israelis through economic development), shared his wisdom on why some entrepreneurs fail (entrepreneurs - be weary of your egos!) and said the people that make the biggest bucks see risk as opportunity and can anticipate what the next ‘bounce of the ball’ will be.
Here at Make Your Mark towers, we clearly love a bit of digital wizardry and no one comes across as more wizard then Carl Smith.
As a researcher and developer at London Met University and my mate, he champions mobile and virtual learning and believes that it can be as adaptable and fluid as we are. We liked the sound of that, so we decided to invite him along to our Social Media Afternoon, Wednesday 28th May, to explain and show off some of the wicked cool stuff he does.
The new austerity.
New puritans, Vocal heros, Austerity chic, Social indulgers…
In a world of uncertainty, ambiguity and irony, one thing’s for certain; people are spending less. This is hardly breaking news, but have you ever thought about what people are spending their money on and what they’re looking for before they hand over their money?
Well I found out this morning! I went to a talk organised by Threepipe, where design agency, OMD, spoke about their findings on how the recession has influenced consumer behaviour. Very interesting stuff indeed.
Make Your Mark Ambassador, Anthony Ganjou from Curb, reports back from the European Commission’s Your World Your Business launch event.
It is a pleasure to report that the European Commission is making great strides toward promoting entrepreneurship amongst the youth of the EU. Like many others I believe whole heartedly that entrepreneurship (especially in Britain) has the power to not only pull the global economy out of the recession but change the world for the better. As a founder owner of a British business started in the recession and growing, it is not anywhere near as gloomy as people may say…don’t believe a word of it!
Attending the conference was an eye opening experience; we were shown a short film going out to thousands of young Europeans, which makes examples of four brilliant EU based entrepreneurs making a difference. Although each is very worthy of a mention here there is only one I will make a point to promote, despite my disappointment about the EU’s decision to promote a Canadian as the British/London example shown in their video.
SUCCESS CAN BE LEARNED
Last time I described how motivation plays a huge part in the process of success. Without a high level of motivation to do anything in life you will not achieve the end result you are looking for.
This time, we move onto another component of success, which is Clear Aims.
Component Number 2 – CLEAR AIMS
People who are successful are very good at defining exactly what it is they want. Many people I come cross have very loose ideas about what exactly it is they are aiming for. As a result they drift about with a broad idea of where they are going but with little direction or conviction mainly because they do not know what the end result is or what it looks like.
Oh, we’re ever so proud. The founder of our brilliant Global Entrepreneurship Week partner, Endeavor Global, has won a sparkly award.
Ms. Linda Rottenberg, CEO and CO-Founder of Endeavor Global, was awarded the 2009 Asper Award for Global Entrepreneurship at Brandeis International Business School. Her vision of an organisation that transforms emerging economies through supporting high-impact entrepreneurs, has gone global in over 10 countries. Very excitingly, she’s the first ever social entrepreneur to receive the Asper Award. Read more about the award
Endeavor Global are still committed to supporting Global Entrepreneurship Week, and we certainly can’t do it without them!
If you want a good read this week look no further than the Big Issue. Not only is the BI a fantastic example of a social enterprise which does great stuff for homeless people but this week it includes articles about ethical fashion. Contributors include our very own Amisha and Lauren who both work for Make Your Mark but also run www.numagazine.co.uk an ethical fashion magazine, in their spare time. And as if that wasn’t enough on the next page you can read about Samata Angel, one of our Ambassadors who also mentions Make Your Mark.
Awwww, we’re so proud.
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