Bye bye Kwiqq, start of the next chapter!

Kwiqq has been an exciting opportunity for me and everyone. Firstly I want to say a BIG thank you to everyone who worked with us: our team, customers and all supporters/friends/family for being through the ups and downs. In short we have decided to close Kwiqq and work on other opportunities. Below I have written [...]

Furness Young Professionals Event: Starting a business

I’m looking forward to speak to a crowd of young professionals in Cumbria at the Furness Young Professionals event on 30th October (Friday). FYP aims to encourage the entrepreneurial spirit of Furness. The Talk My talk will concentrate on: JFDI (Just Doing it) Encouraging others to just get on with developing their business idea and [...]

Global Sales Workshop for ambitious Business Leaders (Grants available) [kwiqq]

Today’s economy requires businesses to be extremely good at client acquisition and sales. Even the best solutions can be harder to sell – no matter how much value is delivered. With companies concerned about cash flow and delaying purchasing decisions indefinitely, it may not be enough to focus exclusively on a solution’s business benefits. About [...]

Looking for summer volunteering opportunity. Please HELP!

End of April and the sun is out, for most Britons its time to think about the eagerly anticipated Holidays. I was thinking of arranging a few days off, you know the usual holiday in the sun ! On pondering I realised that during every holiday I have ever had, I ended up working. Not [...]

Top guns join Sussex University Entrepreneurs (SUE) [kwiqq]

Raj Anand (Founder of Kwiqq and SUE):  Raj is the winner of Europe’s Young Entrepreneur 2007 by Business Week, finalist of Sussex Entrepreneur of the Year and Courvoisier/ The Observer Future 500 (2008). He worked for the European Union,  Sussex University research lab and various start ups. He won many national awards for projects in computer [...]

Business Plan template to ‘Grow a business’ [kwiqq]

Image by Raymond Yee via Flickr I have been getting several requests to point friends to a business plan template to help them growing their business. I thought it would be a great opportunity to dig out a business plan which I wrote in 2007. What’s a business plan ? A business plan is a [...]

Webchat: Business finance – busting the myths

Make Your Mark is hosting another very interesting webchat tomorrow: ‘Business finance’ at 1pm. From the webchat: Whether you’re at the start-up stage, have a burning idea, or want to take your existing enterprise to the next level, how to access finance will always be an important consideration. If you’re fed up of the doom [...]

Tips on how to build a business [kwiqq]

My Background I’m one the growing bread of entrepreneurs in the UK who built a business right after graduating from university. I’m the founder of Kwiqq and Anderstand. Recently I have been active in the helping others developing their own business through Make Your Mark and launching SUE (Sussex University Entrepreneurs). For my efforts with [...]

Announcement: Finalists of Global Entrepreneurship Week (Social Networking Challenge) [kwiqq]

Last year during Global Entrepreneurship Week I was assigned the task to judge a niche social network competition: “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”. I’m thrilled that the quality of entries for the [...]

How does your typical UK Entrepreneur look ? [kwiqq]

Interesting to read that there is a study to find a typical entrepreneur ! Read the entire article on Startups.co.uk ‘s blog. Statistic reveal that the majority of entrepreneurs are white males, in their forties, who live in the South East. The article shines light on some interesting statistics on small business owners: Age Category: [...]