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[eleanorrosejones]

My first ever showreel. Enjoy! 

[chewtv]

The Chew Chronicles - 31/10/14

We've got some news...

"Ignite is one of Europe’s top accelerator programmes, and offers an outstanding opportunity to work with an accomplished network of mentors and investors while supported by an unrivalled alumni network.

"We’re proud to say we’re different to other accelerators. Ask around – you won’t find any other programme speaking at SXSW, showcasing their alumni in NYC or tearing up the accelerator rulebook to do things better."

We've been teasing you guys with this for a while now, so it's good to finally be able to announce it. We're both moving to Newcastle next weekend to join the Autumn programme.

We're so excited! We wouldn't have done it without Jon and Richard - so huge thanks guys - and of course thanks to the Ignite team (Paul, Tristan, Stephen and the rest).

What else we've been up to this week

After the delight of discovering we'd been shortlisted (one of 30 companies from 500+ entries) for this year’s NACUE Varsity Pitch competition, we headed into London for semi final pitch day.

It was apparently a close call, but in the end the Venteo guys took the win with their awesome photo sharing app. We had some great feedback from the judges and made some new friends - so not all bad! 

We had a few wicked meetings this week across London, in between sorting legal bits and pieces for the Newcastle trip and testing the new and improved Chew website (more news on that next week). Oh, and we had an amazing time talking to a new potential client about a stupidly exciting project for early 2015. 

Have a great weekend - we're definitely going to! 

Ben & Wil

[chewtv]

We've just discovered we've been shortlisted in NACUE's Varsity Pitch 2014 in an all-new category. Amazing, amazing news! 

"The competition was fiercer than ever before, so for the first time ever, we’ve created a brand new category, Entertainment and Leisure!"

Congratulations to all the other semi finalists. We look forward to meeting you all next week! 

[chewtv]

We've just applied to NACUE's Varsity pitch competition.

NACUE stands for the National Association of College and University Entrepreneurs. We’re striving to generate the most impressive student talent pool ever.

Fingers crossed!

[chartitdoit-blog]

As well as the flyers for the Digitech Creative Project the lovely new Nacue folk @amyeowatson and @katrina_hau arrived at IEEC with the flyers for the Insight and Inspiration Guide.  Flyers looked cool and it was a great opportunity for us to let people know about the book and how to sign up for a free print or PDF copy.  Had some really enthusiastic responses and am looking forward to feedback from the enterprise educators and creative subject lecturers once they have had a read.

[industryinthestreets]

IITS MD FUSION TO HOST ENTERPRISE PROGRAMME WITH LEVI ROOTS

NACUE presents Jobs & Volunteering Fair

Speaker: Levi Roots (Reggae Reggae Sauce) Date: Wednesday, 15th May Time: 12.30pm - 2pm Venue: Hackney Community College, N1 6HQ

IITS Fusion teams up again with NACUE for their latest young peoples enterprise programme at Hackney Community College alongside 'Dragon's Slayer' Levi Roots.

Since his success on Dragons Den in 2006, Mr Roots has worked hard on building his brand with Reggae Reggae sauce and expanding to new adventures. 

The fair will be packed with local employers, recruitment agencies and voluntary organisations ready to engage with young people who are willing to start new opportunities!  

For more information about NACUE go to: www.nacue.com 

[chartitdoit-blog]

Nacue Leaders Summit Awards

I was lucky enough to be asked to judge this year's NACUE enterprise awards alongside four great judges involved in supporting HE and FE enterprise development.

Judging the awards was really hard due to the high quality of all the entries particularly the brilliant work being done at college level and of course my biased favorites in the the creative enterprise category!

Luka of Nacue/Create presenting the award to Goldsmiths - The Design Marketplace - Creative Enterprise Group.

The nominees can be found here and winners  here along with lots of information about the event.

[ucle-blog]

Day 6. The Fund.

Well, frankly, we are almost as surprised as everyone else that we've gotten the opportunity to do this.

First, some background. We regularly run the ideas drop-in sessions where people come to us with ideas, we vet them and help them develop them into something viable that they can work on. These are extremely useful and we've gotten some hilarious ideas; UCL students and the breadth of their imagination will never cease to amaze us. But we did notice that there was something missing in between what we do and the further support offered by UCL. Several of the members of the committee have started our own businesses and we wanted to create a program where some of the knowledge we've gained through doing this could be imparted to other future student entrepreneurs. The basic mistakes that we had done for you. We also wanted to give students the relatively small amounts of money we knew they needed to test their ideas. The idea of our own investment fund and mini accelerator program developed.

Pretty central to an investment fund is of course, something to invest with. As Will wrote earlier, we've rejected all our big name corporate sponsors, so first off all we needed some money, and we realized quickly that the amount we were looking at we're beyond anything the union or any sponsor would give us.

NACUE, the National Association of College and University Entrepreneurs, runs a competition for student societies once a year and this year had introduced a new category called the New Frontiers award, where £8000 would be awarded to a society to do something completely different and "explore new frontiers". Not only were we required to submit a four to six page business plan, we also had to produce a YouTube video and pitch our idea in front of a panel of judges from big start ups and investment banks. In addition e price would have to be matched by an institutional investor.

Despite some initial problems where I ended up sitting on a balcony in Shanghai producing the video in 15 minutes by myself and the business plan being cobbled together via WhatsApp, we were shortlisted together with six other societies. To our horror the pitch was supposed to be only three minutes long with seven minutes of follow up questions, and the nine thirty the evening before an email ticked in that we weren't allowed to use power point after all. This meant the judges had read our business plan thoroughly and had prepared their questions beforehand, the pitch was mostly for us to introduce the idea ourselves and to add anything. The room was also packed full and our every word was being tweeted by some people with some serious amounts of followers. To be honest, none of us remember much of the actual pitch itself, and obviously the question topics we had split evenly between us and prepared barely showed up. Most of them were on investment strategy, which was what we were the least certain off, as even after many hours of googling we had found no one in the world that had done anything quite like this before. We were literally trying to break new frontiers.

But our strategy, stunning good looks and immaculately ironed shirts pervaded, and after a nerve racking award ceremony where they first said that two and not three societies would get the award, to then give what at the time, seemed like an absurdly long introduction, UCL Entrepreneurs was announced as the winner together with Royal Agricultural College Entrepreneurs. We can all attest that this was easily one of the best days of our lives.

Being able to take something like this, which started out as an idea over the summer, to this level of fruition in November, is what UCL Entrepreneurs is all about.

Wanna apply? Drop us a line.

- Edvard & The UCL Entrepreneurs Society Committee