Hot Entrepreneurs
Age: 22
Occupation: Internet Entrepreneur.
David is Co-Founder and CEO of ClickUni Ltd, a funded Web start-up based at the Oxford Centre for Innovation. It’s one of the Oxford Entrepreneurs Start-A-Company scheme’s biggest success stories and along with his Co-Founder, Andy Young, VP, Oxford Entrepreneurs, they have successfully launched two websites for students:
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.
Age: 20
Occupation: Student / Founder of ESSA
www.studentvoice.co.uk
Rajeeb Dey is the Founder and National Co-ordinator of the English Secondary Students’ Association (ESSA), Co-Founder of Enternships™ and is an undergraduate reading reading Economics & Management at Jesus College, Oxford.
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Age: 22
Occupation: Internet Entrepreneur
Kirill graduated two years ago with a double first in a Mathematics BA from St. Johns. He was the first External Relations Officer and third President of OE. Since leaving Oxford, Kirill managed data and analytics at Slide.com, and in 2007 co-founded YouNoodle.com.
Some more information on Slide and YouNoodle are below. His other previous projects include AmIWorthit.com and Enternships.com.
Kirill welcomes contact from anyone interested in starting or helping early-stage companies. You can read his full bio and get in touch with him by following the link below:
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Occupation: Student / Managing Director of Boso.com
Harjeet Taggar is co-founder and Managing Director of Boso.co.uk, the first online marketplace exclusively for students in the UK. He is a final year undergraduate at Merton College, Oxford reading Law. You can read Harj’s blog at blog.harjtaggar.com
Age: 23
As a founding member of Oxford Entrepreneurs, Kulveer went on to establish the society as one the most enterprising in the country during his tenure as President. He founded Idea Idol, paved the way for future expansion by setting up the first successful rollout at LSE, and led the society on to a national profile.
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Age: 26
Occupation: D.Phil student in philosophy and co-founder of www.liveout.co.uk
Richard Price is a co-founder of LiveOut and a prize fellow of All Souls College, where he is doing a D.Phil in philosophy.
As cofounder and Chairman of Oxford Entrepreneurs, Bob is a leading contributor to the recent rise in entrepreneurialism at UK universities. Having set up profitable design and publishing companies as an undergraduate, he began a sabbatical from his masters degree in April 2004 when headhunted by PayPal cofounder Max Levchin to help start consumer technology companies at his San Francisco incubator, Midtown Doornail. Bob advises a number of student start-ups and welcomes contact from OE members.
Kaori did her undergraduate work looking at deployable structures in nature (things that fold away, such as a leaf in a bud), and her masters degree in medical equipment. While studying stents she visited a Japanese art exhibition and saw an origami fir cone, modelled to open and close. Inspired by this Kaori developed an original origami pattern to create a new type of “stent”.
My inspiration for designing lingerie came from living in Rome and Paris, and realising that sensuality for many European women is something integrated into ordinary life; wearing beautiful lingerie is a daily ritual. This is evident in the multitude of independent lingerie stores that one can find on practically every block in Paris and Rome.
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