http://win.uk.com Making The Right Connections Wed, 27 Feb 2008 15:42:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As Paul has already been kind enough to write about more or less every day we were taking part in EPIC, I will here add my own input, experiences, views and thought on the event.  19th Jan Of the team members sent to 'WIN' the 2008's "Entrepreneurs International Challenge" I only knew Paul ... http://win.uk.com/2008/02/27/a-reflection-on-an-epic-week-in-london/ At the end of day 3 we were set our final challenge. To start and end a business between the hours of 9 to 5. After the rules were explained to us we went for a couple of hours deliberation. We realised that if we were going to sell ... http://win.uk.com/2008/02/26/day-3-4-final-challenge-start-a-business/ The first challenge of the day was aimed at helping to give us experience of presenting to venture capitalists. Sadly they didn't explain this to us untill after we had a very unpleasant presentation. The challenge was to develop a plan on how supermarkets can reduce waste plastic packaging. A ... http://win.uk.com/2008/02/25/day-3-challenge-1-a-case-study-presentation/ Today was hard. Unlike last year where we had to present a marketing campaign, this year we had to present it and execute it. The company we had to do the campaign for was www.uuni.com. An alternate to facebook where you can win competions and all of the freatures of ... http://win.uk.com/2008/02/22/day-2-marketing-challenge/ On the 9th April, Northwick Events are hosting the Shropshire Business Expo - a fantastic opportunity to network with other small businesses. We're looking to put together a group of people who are interested in attending this event - if this sounds like the sort of thing you'd be interested in, ... http://win.uk.com/2008/02/22/shropshire-business-expo/ Do you want to do your bit to help Worcester win EPIC? Well now you can! The teams have to try and get as many referrals on a website as they can - this is where you come in. To help, visit: http://www.uuni.com/ - click on register, and sign-up using your ... http://win.uk.com/2008/02/21/help-worcester-win-epic/ After a very short nights sleep we awoke to the start of our first day here in London. We received our challenge the night before which gave us some careful planning time. The challenge was fairly straight forward. There are 10 teams, 10 bundles and we all had to bid for ... http://win.uk.com/2008/02/20/day-one-negotiation/ Lets all be sure to wish our team entering the EPIC 208 competition tomorrow the best of luck - lets hope they bring us home a victory. http://win.uk.com/2008/02/18/epic-2008-starts-tomorrow/ Good news, we've been accepted into the final round of this year's EPOCH challenge, now known as EPIC. The challenge will be taking place from the 19th until the 23rd of February. http://win.uk.com/2008/01/08/epic-2008/ Attached are the minutes of the unofficial meeting we had today. Please feel free to download and read them, but for the lazy ones among you (you know who you are ;)) the main points are listed below: University 'Services' Internet Portal. Organisation of our own EPOCH style challenge for students at ... http://win.uk.com/2007/04/04/minutes-4th-april-2007/