Shell Livewire Live

27 Oct

Let me start this post with a huge thank you to the team at Shell Livewire and everyone at Shell UK for making this event possible. It is immensly valuable for business people and entrepreneurs to meet face to face as well as over the Internet so this event was invaluable in my opinion.

Secondly I’d like to say congratulations to Robert and his team at Shiply who won the young entrepreneur of the year award. I know there has been debate here about Shiply but I believe it is a great product and having met Robert today I can testify he is a nice guy too. Also a big congratulations to the othe seven nominees it was nice to put names to faces today.

The Shell livewire event concisted of a lot of networking, which at the end of the day is probably the most valuable for start up businesses. However there were a number of other things going on. First off there was a panal discusion hosted by Tre Azam from the 2007 series of the Apprentice. This was a general discusion on taking your business to the next level and it was really good to hear how people who have been successful in their business career arn’t much different from anyone else. As one panalists said ‘entrepreneurs develop. They are not born’.

Following this we had a number of smaller group sessions. I attended a talk on accessing finance from angel investors to bank loans and a number of methods inbetween. I also attended a talk on branding and how it can help your company. These small discussions developed an amazing amount of leads and ideas.

Finally we all had a short session on developing an elevator pitch and then went to watch the eight finalists do just that in their short and sweet presentations before the announcement of the winner, Shiply.

I’d like to say thanks again to everyone who made the event possible and I look forward to next year!

3 Responses to “Shell Livewire Live”

  1. StuartC 28. Oct, 2009 at 12:40 am #

    Sounds like it was a great event – I am pretty gutted that I was unable to make it down.

    Congratulations to the well deserved winner!

    Stuart

  2. Rich 28. Oct, 2009 at 12:08 pm #

    Hi Oli,

    Thanks for attending, was fantastic to meet you.

    Whilst a little disappointed that we didn’t pick up the award we’re really happy for Robert who as you say, was a thoroughly nice (and extremely intelligent) chap with a fantastic business!

    Richard
    AdInsight

  3. Oli Gibson 28. Oct, 2009 at 11:38 pm #

    Thanks for the comments guys, Shame you couldn’t make it Stuart would have been good to meet you.

    It was really great to see what you had to offer Rich, I think I’ll be in touch sometime in the future.

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