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Pioneers win £3000 at VMP Innovation Challenge [Pictures]

by Erica | 21 November 2011 | one comment

A huge congratulations to our winning Pioneers who became the Innovation Challenge champions. Walking away with a £3000 grand prize! In the final round of the Innovation Challenge the teams all worked incredibly hard on …

Pioneer of the Week: Natalie Brown– Inspireddreams.co.uk

by Zarina | 18 November 2011 | 4 comments

Congratulations to Natalie Brown of  Inspireddreams! She’s our Pioneer of the Week and our latest contender for Pioneer of the Month. Why we’ve chosen Natalie as our Pioneer of the Week. This week we’ve chosen …

The Round-Up: UK firms, Top Five Hottest Internet Start-ups and more

by Zarina | | no comments

UK firms to face customer drought According to the Institute of Customer Service, you can kiss goodbye to 10% of your customers in the next three years…read more Startup Aims to Leverage Crowdsourcing in Product …

GEW highlights so far!

by Zarina | 17 November 2011 | one comment

Phew! What a busy but inspiring week we’re having here at Virgin Media Pioneers with regards to GEW 2011. Check out the highlights… The events that were: Monday 14th November Youth Business International (YBI), hosts …

Pioneers News 246: Competitions, winners, the launch of our Control Shift Report and more!

by Zarina | 16 November 2011 | no comments

A jam-packed week this week what with Global Entrepreneurship Week 2011 and the launch of our Control Shift Report. Winners of our All Star Mentors competition are… A huge congratulations to Hafsa Issa-Selwe, Nathaniel Peat …

LIVE BLOG: The Launch of the Control Shift Report

by Erica | 15 November 2011 | no comments

7.10pm the opening speeches…Doug Richards and Virgin Media COO, Andrew Baron. Key thing to take away is that large businesses should support start-ups and young businesses. Doug Richards says give small businesses work and Andrew …

LIVE BLOG: The Launch of the Control Shift Report

by Erica | | no comments

6pm. The Hub Westminster. Team VMP are in the building! We’re launching our new report, Control Shift: Rise of the Young Entrepreneurs. The report is the culmination of months of hard work and lots of …

LIVE: Updates from the Control Shift Report Launch!

by Erica | | no comments

Want to keep up with the activities from #ControlShift? We’ve got you covered! Join us here to see live tweets from the event. NB: Tweets take a minute or two to load! new TWTR.Widget({ version: 2, …

Pioneers Attend Richard Branson Book Launch [Pictures]

by Erica | | no comments

In case you missed our tweets this morning we thought we’d share our morning in pictures. And what a morning it was as 6 Pioneers attended the launch of Richard Branson’s new book, ‘Screw Business …

COMPETITION: Meet Richard Branson in South Africa

by Jos | 14 November 2011 | 7 comments

We have an amazing opportunity for two lucky Virgin Media Pioneers to fly out to South Africa to meet Sir Richard Branson and visit the Branson Centre of Entrepreneurship in Johannesburg. For full details of …