HSBC Unipreneurs

This is a pretty late blog for this competition... actually VERY late... The competition was held back in April 2008, but since I did not start the blog until a couple months back, it has taken me this long to report on it!

The competition was held by HSBC to seek out the most entrepreneurial student or recent graduate in the UK who has a good business idea or started a potentially high growth business. The prize was £20,000! The process started off by applicants sending in their business plan summary, which then got sifted through from the hundreds down to 100, and then down to 20 and then down to top 10 where they will need to pitch to a few judges. The 10 was then sifted down to the top 5 which had to do a presentation to a large audience of VIP's and investors, and it was then down to the matter of audiences votes to select the winner


It was a long process and but unfortunately I didn't win, and only managed to get down to the top 10... Nevertheless, the competition was fierce and the company who won really did deserve it. 'Scratchface' designed a computer software which allowed colour blinded people to read the computer screen more effectively and easily. So it was definitely a good product for the good of society, and I truly hope that they do well. Although the £20,000 would have helped the company immensely the experience I got from this was valuable, and I know BEEcycle will get the 1st prize next time ;)

Also thanks to Desmond who lent me his place to stay over in London!