On Wednesday 2nd August, two post-graduate students presented two new social enterprise business ideas to the Wates Social Enterprise Fund panel in a ‘Dragon’s Den’ style pitching event. Sarah Campbell (PGR Psychology) pitched a new app called ‘Tuning In’ which takes proven psychological principles and for tackling mental health problems and translates them into a fun […]
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The third installment of our “Surrey Start-up Stories” features We Are Millennials (WAM), the platform dedicated to promoting millennial talent.
Name: Bayo Akinmejiwa
Course: Business Management 2013-16
Business: We Are Millennials (WAM)
Summaries your business:
My business is a platform to promote and share millennial talent. We choose a new millennial each week to promote as well as constantly supporting them through advertising on our social media and website.
The website is www.wamvoice.com
Facebook: WAM
Twitter: @WamVoice
Instagram: WamVoice
How and when did your business idea come about?
The Summer of 2015 whilst I was interning at Mass Challenge UK. MC is a business accelerator and on their cohort in the UK they had 90 different start ups working in the building in Shadwell. Being in this environment just made it evident that this is something I wanted to do and a running theme that I felt they all wanted to tap into were millennials and I felt that I had some insight or at least knew a good few amount of millennials too.
What (Student Enterprise or external) start up support did you use and how did it help?
I received mentoring from Travis Lee Scott (external).
How has your business developed and what are your ambitions for the future?
For the future we aim to establish a presence on YouTube and use this to help us trend. Beyond that we want to establish ourselves as the gateway to uncovered millennial talent and help integrate brands and resources with the correct millennials.
What has been the best/worst part of starting/running a business?
The best part is being able to see a vision you had in your head come to life and constantly been tapped into daily. The worst is when the business demands have no leniency on your personal life, e.g. exam period, so sometimes it is a stress to multi task.
Do you have any words of wisdom for budding entrepreneurs?
See it as an obstacle course, as things which can go wrong do often go wrong but everything can be overcome.
As part of our new series “Surrey Start-up Stories”, we’ll be featuring interviews with student and graduate entrepreneurs about their businesses and entrepreneurial journeys. Our second student start-up story is Bike Bros, run from the Enterprise Studio on campus by Dimitar Kutsarov and Yousif Sadik. Name: Dimitar Kutsarov & Yousif Sadik Course: PhD in Electronic Engineering / PhD in […]
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As part of our new series “Surrey Start-up Stories”, we’ll be featuring interviews with student and graduate entrepreneurs about their businesses and entrepreneurial journeys. Our first student entrepreneur in focus is Jenno, who runs Modern Men Barbershop from our Enterprise Studio on campus. He shares his journey so far and words of advice for anyone thinking of starting […]
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Crowdfunding is becoming common place for start-ups. Read about our MSc Entrepreneurship course participants who have set up their own crowdfunding campaigns as part of their course. Crowdfunding and the modern entrepreneur | Surrey Business School blog
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Have you ever wondered what Student Enterprise is? Have you even heard of it? Perhaps not… It’s not quite as self-explanatory as the other support offerings on campus: Student Finance, Student Accommodation, Student Welfare… You may not even be aware it exists at your university (it probably does). Whether you’ve just secured your place at […]
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