If you have been following kwiqq you might know that we began on 15th Jan 2007. In just a year we have seen some amazing results. We met some fantastic people in the community: Brighton (BNM), London, California, European etc.

I would like to thank everyone for being supportive and accepting funny accent multicultural (Raj) and skinny blond haired (Jack) :). Your advice and references are much appreciated! This year our achievements were:

• Kwiqq grew from 1 man band to a team of 11 people.
• Raj won BusinessWeek’s Europe’s Young entrepreneur 2007
• Jack spoke about Social Networking at several conferences like Ad-tech (Europe’s Biggest interactive marketing conference), Internet marketing conference (Sweden), 02 sponsored New Product Network, Mashup* Event and SEMN IP-Pitching organised by Wired Sussex
• Raj spoke on Entrepreneurship at Make Your Mark (YES Network), £5 App, Ethnic Minority Entrepreneurs at the British Council (with The Minister of State for Competitiveness, Stephen Timms MP)
• We are working with some fabulous clients like First Choice (2wentys), Highams PLC, Sussex Innovation Centre and SEEDA.
• We were covered in some major publications (online and offline) like BusinessWeek, Techcrunch, Hindustan Times, TTG, The Argus, Intruders.tv, Hobsons, Wired Sussex, Blognation etc.

Our ambitions for 2008:

I always think of ourselves as a very ambitious company. As you would suspect we have some targets for next year:

• Physical presence outside the UK. I will announce this once deals and our vision is finalised
• Officially launch version 2 of Kwiqq’s software with major upgrades in the server and front end of the software.
• Serve more customers this year, strategy includes increasing our sales force and development team.
• Concentrate on our product. Improve functionality and explore other undiscovered areas of social networking in areas like privacy, usability etc

Personal Objectives for 2008:

• Do more dance videos, one wasn’t enough
• Eating healthy food and no snacking (good bye junk food). I’ll try and join a gym, not sure if I’ll get the time though (atleast I’m honest about it)
  
• Continue my mission to get more young people into entrepreneurship. Its a wonderful thing which would help them in various spheres of life.
  
• Not wear suit and tie unless I really have to.
  

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Tags: Kwiqq, achievements, 2007, 2008, Jack Farihall, Raj Anand