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Doug Richard Lunch Event

Date: Wednesday 15 September 2010

Speaker: Doug Richard

Speech: "The New Golden Age of Entrepreneurs". The forthcoming revolution in startups and how companies will be starting faster, growing faster and disrupting more than ever before....

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Doug Richard is a successful entrepreneur with 20 years’ experience in the development and leadership of technology and software ventures, Doug featured in the first two TV series of Dragon’s Den. He is the Founder of School For Startups, Founder and Vice Chairman of the Cambridge Angels and Chairman of the Conservative Party Small Business Task Force. 

Event review

When Doug Richard arrived on the 6th floor at Claridge's with a cast boot on his right foot, questions were naturally raised pertaining to the injury. "It was run over but it's completely fine now" was Doug's matter of fact reply, after which he proceeded to speak personally to as many delegates as possible during the networking session before lunch.

Doug was both charming and engaging and talked at length about social networking and resulting communication (Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, LinkedIn etc.), internet success Groupon which gew to $1billion in 18 months, the self-taught make-up artist who become a youTube success and is on the way to becoming a millionaire and local firms using twitter to rapidly ramp up business success. Doug also talked about the golden age of the entrepreneur, access to capital and his own business project - school for start-ups. The Q&A was extensive and questions from delegates included:

• How do we teach entrepreneurship?
• How to deal with fear of failure in a culture where entrepreneurship is encouraged?
• Must you have a profound confidence in technology to be a successful entrepreneur?
• Is there still a place for people who live in a grey space i.e. no debt, no equity, in the school for entrepreneurs?

"Your best speaker yet!" - Nigel Southon, VentureGrowth

"Doug was an entertaining and inspiring speaker" - Matthew Trowbridge, MGT Support

See the first extract of Doug's speech on YouTube

See the second extract of Doug's speech on YouTube
 

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