Bringing G20 to Brighton via We20 [kwiqq]

[Update] We20 Brighton meeting on for 2pm Saturday (28th March) at Sanctuary Cafe. Come join us ! G-20 was established in 1999 to bring together systemically important industrialized and developing economies to discuss key issues in the global economy. The G-20 is made up of the finance ministers and central bank governors of 19 countries: [...]

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 [...]

Business and Social Media in India. Anyone ? [kwiqq]

Chinwag along with UKTI (UK Trade and Industry) hosted a very interesting event yesterday: Digital Business India. The aim of the event was to get UK business consider expanding overseas to India. I went along as a guest and spent most of my time exploring the opporutnities. UK Businesses in India It seems to me [...]

4 things you didn’t know about Twitter ! [kwiqq]

Twitter is going more mainstream on a daily basis with celebrities adopting it left, right and centre. Last night news broke out that Russell Brand (rustyrockets) is on Twitter. Today morning he had over 5000 followers and now 7000+ followers. Tweeters were shocked to see how quickly he was getting traffic: Soonish, Twitter will become [...]

World’s 9th richest country (Kuwait) and Web Innovation [kwiqq]

Image via Wikipedia Innovation in web technology has been given priority over the last couple of years by the British Government. Recently at NESTA Lord Drayson mentioned how UK shouldn’t stop innovating even during the recession. It is fantastic to compare that with World’s 10th richest nation and its web strategy or rather a non-web [...]

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: [...]

UK Universities developing entrepreneurs [kwiqq]

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 [...]

Who really is Raj? Lost in translation

At the Young Apeldoorn conference another part of me was exposed, to myself. My background ! Having spent (almost) 1/3rds of my life in Kuwait, India and then the UK. I feel I’m blessed to be able to see things from a different eye. Although often the question ‘who are you Indian, Kuwaiti or British’ [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]