Monthly Archives: October 2008

UK Universities developing entrepreneurs

By Raj Anand | October 30, 2008

As global entrepreneurship week is drawing closer. I’m trying to think of topics which helped me to choose entrepreneurship straight after university. Well nothing better to start from the impact of university in my life.
At high school I discovered my love for C++ programming. It was fun because you can build programs which could do [...]

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Competition for budding entrepreneurs (and prizes)

By Raj Anand | October 28, 2008

On the occasion of Global Entrepreneurship Week MakeYourMark are holding series of competitions for budding entrepreneurs. I have set up a challenge for budding entrepreneurs too:
“2008 is the year of the niche online social network. Come up with a new idea for a niche social network that would be fun, popular, and profitable”
There are already [...]

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DPA conference (3 of 3): The Presentation

By Raj Anand | October 22, 2008

Today I’m speaking at the DPA conference in Brighton. Check out the presentation (Sorry I haven’t attached any notes with it)
Raj Anand Kwiqq Dpa
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Online (UK) Angel Investment community to the rescue

By Raj Anand | October 22, 2008

During the economic turmoil companies are feeling the pinch, especially startups. Many entrepreneurs aren’t sure how they would pursue the projects they have been working of for the last few weeks. This is where Angels come in nicely. Angel investors are generally serial entrepreneurs who have some money to invest in new business ideas.
The bonus [...]

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Client mood boards with Backpack

By dan | October 19, 2008

Here at Kwiqq we love working with web tools that make our lives easier. Whether it’s everyones favourites like Flickr or Dopplr or speciality applications like Protoshare. Recently we have started to introduce our clients to the benefits of online apps.
In an effort to gain a more accurate visual design style for our clients we [...]

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Developing entrepreneurs whilst at university / school

By Raj Anand | October 17, 2008

It is almost hilarious how many entrepreneurs emphasis that entrepreneurship is something you learn on the job. i.e. you need to fail 1 or 2 businesses to make the 3rd one successful. Although there is some truth in the fact that most of the experience is ‘Learn as you go’ there are several things you [...]

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My latest comedy video: I’m Addicted to Twitter

By Raj Anand | October 16, 2008

So I’m semi popular for my rather unpopular dance :). Hence I have decided to do another dance video. Enjoy:

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Kwiqq (seriously) adopting OpenID

By Raj Anand | October 13, 2008

OpenID has been the topic of the week in the Kwiqq offices. OpenID for people who are less aware of it is a shared identity service, which allows Internet users to log on to many different web sites using a single digital identity, single sign-on, eliminating the need for a different user name and password [...]

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Not-doing in the design process

By dan | October 9, 2008

One of the ways I increase my productivity when designing complex web applications is to not do anything!
Quite a few people will be familiar with the Chinese philosophy of not-doing so I wont elaborate too much but in essence it allows things to happen rather than trying to have to much effect over circumstances, read [...]

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Finalist: Sussex Entrepreneur of the Year

By Raj Anand | October 8, 2008

I’m delighted to be chosen as one of the three finalist for Sussex Business Awards 2008-09: (Source: The Argus)
ENTREPRENEUR OF THE YEAR – sponsored by Sussex Enterprise

Raj Anand, Kwiqq.com Brighton
Rosie Freshwater, Leapfrogg, Brighton
Ian Lucas, Redseven, Brighton

Looking back at the journey, starting Kwiqq and developing it so far has not been easy although a very enjoyable [...]

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