Posted by Marco Geninazza at 11:30 08/02/10
I think I can speak on behalf of the FIG team when I say we really can’t wait for our launch event tonight. The culmination of many months hard work and a fantastic Winter Funding Drive which drove hundreds of students and recent graduates to upload their business plans onto the FIG website and 170 completed proposals.
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Posted by Marco Geninazza at 1:00 29/01/10
We’d like to thank all the fantastic FIG Seeds that attended our first workshop last Thursday (28th January) at eOffice in Soho.
Shortlisted from 170 complete business proposals submitted during our Winter Funding Drive since November 2009, 12 great Seeds attended.
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Posted by James King at 1:00 19/01/10
The deadline has passed and invitations to the workshop will be sent out by Friday. We've had hundreds of entries in the past month and the standard was incredible!
New proposals will be entered into the Spring workshop.
Stay tuned for news on the investor event on February the 8th!
Hope you are having a good new year,
James and The FIG Team x
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Posted by James King at 1:00 13/01/10
Snow is everywhere and it is making it difficult to get into work. Marco got stuck in his drive last week and I got stuck in Geneva airport for a couple of days (ended up getting the eurostar back).
But we made it in eventually and we’ve had our noses firmly to the grindstone ever since.
Our team has expanded, the investor event gets closer and our secret cool project gets ready to launch!
In the new year we are welcoming a fresh new set of interns with open arms and sandwiches from Tina.
Snow is everywhere and it is making it difficult to get into work. Marco got stuck in his drive last week and I got stuck in Geneva airport for a couple of days (ended up getting the eurostar back).
But we made it in eventually and we’ve had our noses firmly to the grindstone ever since.
Our team has expanded, the investor event gets closer and our secret cool project gets ready to launch!
In the new year we are welcoming a fresh new set of interns with open arms and sandwiches from Tina.
This week we have the pleasure of Phoebe Hollond’s company. Phoebe is studying PPE at Kings and has been hard at work helping with our launch event’s organisation. She has already made an impression, promptly mocking our grammar and bringing some resemblance of fashion into the office (i.e. not jeans and trainers).
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Posted by James King at 1:00 24/12/09
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
As the FIG team dissipate for hard earned Christmas holidays we want to wish all our FIG supporters, investors, partners and entrepreneurs alike, a very merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. We also want to congratulate Nicola Jackson, the FIG Office manager, who’s baby girl, Lily, was born on the 16th!
FIG will be opening our doors again on the 5th of Jan. We will be back with a bang. You can expect announcements of new services, events, success stories and exciting secret projects that will help make sure 2010 starts the way we mean to continue!
Have a great break,
The FIG Team x
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Posted by Marco Geninazza at 1:00 11/12/09
Our Funding Drive, Winter 2010 seems to have generated a lot of interest over the past few weeks, proving to us once again that there is a wealth of talent, business acumen, drive as well as great ideas amongst the UK’s student and recent graduate demographic.
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Posted by James King at 1:00 03/12/09
FIG is well placed to support young start-ups as we have all started companies ourselves. FIG itself is a young company – a mere 11 months old.
One of the discoveries the founders of FIG have all made is a simple, but important one;
Friends can be really helpful.
When we started FIG we spoke to lots of friends to let them know what were planning to do, to get feedback, advice and pool suggestions. Then our friends did what they do best. They offered help, in abundance. And wow, did they deliver!
• “If you don’t ask, you don’t receive”
They made introductions, helped organise legal compliance and even helped us expand on initial research.
With their help we set about solving a problem that many people faced and creating a product that serviced a need as well as a want.
For early stage companies it is important to know that you can trust the people you are working with and are helping you. But not just for the reason that immediately jumps to mind…
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