Archive for February, 2009

FUNDING & PITCHING: 25 February, 2009

Monday, February 9th, 2009

inbizvest and thenextwomen.com are hosting a Funding & Pitching event on the 25th February 2009 aimed at female entrepreneurs.  You can meet, interact and learn from experienced women that know all about funding for both start-ups and the growing business. Spend an evening with us in the intimate setting of the Loyens & Loeff Law Firm offices, London gaining insight into how best to prepare for the finance that you will need.

The evening will include:

  1. Talks by The Investor, The Entrepreneur and The Pitch Expert.
  2. Extensive Q & A session and Discussion
  3. 3 ‘Try-Out’ Funding Pitches with feedback
  4. Networking & Drinks

We offer the exclusive opportunity to five women to try out their funding pitches before a Panel of Experts. It is a unique chance to profit from these experts’ insights, and to receive feedback and suggestions on your funding pitch before you throw yourselves in front of the ‘financial’ lions.

SPEAKERS INCLUDE:ANDREA COCKERTON (THE PITCH EXPERT), ANNA SOFAT (ADDIDI BUSINESS ANGELS) PITCHING ENTREPRENEURS: SARAH WATSON (BALINEUM)

Where: Loyens & Loeff in the City (near Bank)
When: February 25, 2009 at 6.30-9.30pm
Costs: GBP 37,50

More details are here thenextwomen

Launch48 – launches 4 new businesses in 48hrs

Monday, February 9th, 2009
80+ individuals got together in London over the weekend to create 4 new web businesses in 48hrs. Friday night started with 21 Dragons’ Den style pitches, of which the following four ideas were selected:
  1. Charity Pie – a system for managing donations to charities
  2. Decision Decision – a system to assist with making decisions
  3. I love you cause – a system for sending messages to people based on a topic
  4. Local Coupons – a system for finding coupons based on your location

 mycharitypie

Individuals selected the team they wanted to be in ready for work to start on Satuarday morning. By 17:00hrs on Sunday 4 new businesses were born. They now had 45 days to move things forward before pitching to a group of business angels for investment.

See www.launch48.com for more details

Friday, February 6th, 2009

Inbizvest is proud to sponsor Launch48.

The aim of Launch48 is to bring together participants from different backgrounds and levels of experience in the web industry to think/plan/develop and launch one or multiple web apps in one weekend. That’s right, in 48 hours! It’s a frantic, energy fuelled, entrepreneurial event designed to engage all participants while offering the opportunity to learn and meet new people.

Launch48 is taking place over the weekend 6-8th February 2009.