Global Entrepreneurship Week is run each year to educate, encourage and enable people to set up their own business and promote entrepreneurship as an option. So to help play our part among the events that are going on across the globe this year (18-23 Nov) our latest Live Chat over on Evolved Heart at 7pm on Wed 20 Oct is on ‘Starting & Marketing Your Own Venture’.
So bookmark this page, join us then and meanwhile read on…
* So are you thinking about, starting out or already your own boss / running a business?
* What does it take to actually start and sustain a business?
* How can you be visible and market yourself in an increasingly noisy and competitive marketplace?
We’re very much looking forward to this special live chat in which we’ll be sharing tips and insights on how to start and progress and we’ll be joined by a special guest who made a decision in his teens to set up a school thousands of miles away – a dream he made come true….
Our guests / contributors
Ed Forrest: is co-founder of Educate for Life. Ed and his business partner Akshay Patel were two teenagers who had the rather unusual idea of building a school and had both ended up in the same halls-of-residence when we joined University College London in 2003. After realising our shared ambition we agreed that one day we would raise some money and build a school together – which is exactly what they did.
Educate for Life’s vision consists of a world where universally accessible schools are hubs of sustainable development and where learning is an empowering child-centred process, co-created by teachers, students and community members. In order to work towards this vision, we have the following 7 mission statements. Check out their website to learn more about our current and planned activities for that mission.
Ed will be sharing Educate for Life’s story and talking about how they started, what have been the highlights and challenges and how they actually built a school in India from scratch and built a charitable business venture based on a real passion and values. (See video below at the end of this page).
Tum Kazunga
Tum is Co-Founder of Evolved Heart, and an marketing and online expert. Over the years he has helped many businesses, charities, sole traders and organisations to grow their businesses and raise their profile.
Tum is of course our Host for the Live Chats and on this special he will be sharing tips on marketing yourself effectively and raising your visibility online and offline.He’ll also be exploring the things that you could and should be doing and how to stand out in todays ever more crowded business environment.
Rasheed Ogunlaru
Last but by no means least is Evolved Heart Co-Founder and our in house life / business coach specialist, Rasheed Ogunlaru.Rasheed is a leading life and business coach and motivational speaker and author of Soul Trader; Putting the Heart Back into Your Business.
Rasheed is also the business coach partner to the British Library’s 
Business & IP Centre where he runs the Soul Trader workshop to help those starting and growing a business.
He is also coach to TiE UK’s mentoring programme which is run in partnership with the Business & IP Centre; which is where he met our special guest Ed, one of the gifted entrepreneurs on the programme.
Rasheed will be sharing tips on the strategy, planning, clarity, confidence, life balance and organisational skills needed to start and grow and will be sharing tips and insights from his book, workshop and experience with entrepreneurs.
To watch / take part:
1. Book mark this page on EvolvedHeart.com – and you can also post comments and questions on this page on or for the day
2. Tune in here at 7pm UK time (2pm EST) on Tuesday 22 Oct 2013
3. Email any advance questions or points to admin @ evolved heart.com mark your questions ‘Internet; here for good’.
Can’t make it?
Don’t worry the video will be here live from when broadcast and will remain archived here so just bookmark and when you’re free.
Educate for Life video
Check out this film made by the BBC’s Inside Out Programme on the Education for Life which will give you a flavour of the journey of our guest.
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