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 [...]

Shell STEP, judging third time around. Delighted!

Chuffed to judge Shell STEP, UK’s leading nationwide project-based work placement programme. I have judged this twice before, read here and here. Being a STEP student myself I’m glad I can help add value. It’s fantastic for businesses (high value for brilliant work force) and students (brilliant professional opportunity) at university. If you are a [...]

Case study of a UK University successfully using Twitter [kwiqq]

Twitter alongside the recession are the two biggest things which officially arrived in the UK at the start of 2009. Some find it hard to quantify Twitter’s value add whilst companies like Dell shouted from roof tops about the success they had with Twitter. The success of Twitter is not limited to corporations, consultants and [...]

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 [...]

SUE – Sussex University Entrepreneurs

I have recently learnt that only 4% of Sussex graduates choose entrepreneurship as a career path after their degrees. This number for instance is higher than Kent University, which produces 3% graduate entrepreneurs. Although more can be done at Sussex to support entrepreneurship. This is when I decided to develop a group to encourage Sussex [...]

Research paper: Developing a typology of youth-led innovation

Recently I was approached by Sussex University research department to briefly contribute to NESTA funded research paper on ‘Youth-led Innovation’. It is currently in its draft phase and available on NESTA’s Website. I find the outcome (diagram) from the research paper absolutely fascinating: Download it: Developing a typology of youth-led innovation (PDF) Related articles by [...]

Developing entrepreneurs whilst at university / school [kwiqq]

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 [...]

Uni friend of FHM: Lets support her !

I good friend of mine from university has now started modelling professionally. Hannah Cosham has come a long way from Finger Lady (I nicknamed her that don’t ask me why…) to a gorgeous model. Guys and girls we need to stop drooling and support her by voting on FHM ! addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Frajanand.biz%2F2008%2F10%2F14%2Funi-friend-of-fhm-lets-support-her%2F’; addthis_title = [...]

Should management go next doors ? [kwiqq]

Kwiqq HQ is based in the Sussex Innovation Centre based on Sussex University Science Park. We love the location: it is buzzy, startupish, nice meeting rooms, full of energy and a lot of fun. At Kwiqq we are growing in size. It has come to the point that we need new office. Although the issue [...]