Snooth was founded by Philip James (St Hughs MChem 1999).

Snooth is the world’s largest wine search engine and social network and is revolutionizing the way people choose wine.

Snooth was founded in November 2006 and closed its first round of funding in December of that year. Based in New York City, Snooth combines proprietary algorithms with the world’s most comprehensive wine database to accurately identify the wines best-suited to an individual.

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Age: 23

Occupation: Internet Entrepreneur.

David is the CEO and co-founder of GroupSpaces, an Internet company revolutionising the way clubs and societies manage mailing lists, membership databases, file sharing, websites and events.

Having graduated with a degree in Pure & Applied Mathematics in 2007, David was awarded 2nd place in the UK Graduate of the Year competition for achievements throughout his student career. In addition to setting up GroupSpaces, these included receiving the Duke of Edinburgh’s Gold Award, an Explorer Award for conservation work from the John Muir Trust and being selected as one of FreshMinds’ Ones to Watch for the future.

Prior to working full-time as an Internet Entrepreneur, David worked in Investment Management at Lehman Brothers, Complex Derivatives Trading at JPMorgan and completed the Discover course with McKinsey & Company.

In addition to spending much of his time organising the world’s groups with GroupSpaces, David is currently an Ambassador for the Make Your Mark scheme, the Entrepreneurship Columnist for national student newspaper The Gateway and he writes blog Freed From The Matrix about young entrepreneurs.

David is also a very keen sportsman. Since playing in the England table tennis squad as a junior, he played several sports for St. Anne’s College and was also President of Oxford University’s Table Tennis and Motor Drivers’ Clubs. He is currently training for his latest pursuit of triathlon.

You can follow David on Twitter at http://twitter.com/langer

Age: 23

Occupation: Internet Entrepreneur

Andy joined the Oxford Entrepreneurs team in spring 2006 and became Vice President in April 2007. In November 2007 he deferred studies for his degree in Computer Science in order to work full-time on the company he co-founded in February 2006, developing GroupSpaces.com - an online service for clubs and societies.

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The Oxford Retreat, 1 - 2 Hythe Bridge Street

Join us to celebrate the end of term OE-style at the Oxford Retreat. For only £22 you will be treated to a drinks reception, three course meal and a glass of wine. There will be a star cast of entrepreneurs in attendance, so don’t miss out!

Registration for our Christmas Dinner has now closed.

This annual event brings together outstanding entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and related professionals from Silicon Valley, California, and top MBA students, for a full day of stimulating and challenging debate and discussion. Meet Paul Graham founder of Y-Combinator, Chris Sacca head of special initiatives at Google, Ried Hoffman founder of Linked in and many more of the Silicon Valley entrepreneurs.

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Want to be in for a chance of winning up to £25k?

Idea Idol is Oxford Entrepreneurs’ flagship business idea competition. Come and help us celebrate it’s launch

LAUNCH EVENT

MONDAY 12th 6:30pm, Said Business School
At this event you can learn in more detail about exactly how you can apply, and get on the road to £25,000.

Featuring special guest speaker Imran Hakim, winner of £140k funding from Peter Jones and Theo Paphitis after defeating the Dragons in the Den for his iTeddy multimedia teddy bear

And special guest speaker Nick Jenkins founder of the hugely successful customisable greetings card website www.moonpig.com

LAUNCH PARTY

TUESDAY 13th 7:30pm, Anuba
FREE drinks at our Anuba party followed by FREE Bridge entry til 9:30pm. Thomas Whitfield will share his roller coaster story of winning unlimited funding for miomi.com in last years dramatic finale.

Charles Dunstone is Managing Director and Founder of the hugely successful company, The Carphone Warehouse.

He is widely respected as one of the UK’s most dynamic entrepreneurs and heads up what is now the UK’s leading independent communications specialist retailer - a company he has built up from scratch in less than ten years. An Observer survey rated him as the 124th most powerful person in the UK and the Times rated him as the 74th richest.
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