Posts Tagged ‘Anna-Lisa Wesley’
Anna-Lisa Wesley: Founder folklore and fairytales – tech desperately needs new material
Anna-Lisa Wesley, Entrepreneur in Residence at SETsquared Bristol, reflects on the power of storytelling and needing new founder stories for our time. “Working in tech right now, we need some new heroes, heroines, new plots, new tools, new lessons. We desperately need new material.” Microsoft, Google, LinkedIn… these business stories, the founders that sit behind them and…
Read MoreAnna-Lisa Wesley: Down with the elevator pitch, up with good chat
Anna-Lisa Wesley, Entrepreneur in Residence at SETsquared Bristol, shares her six-step guide to get through informal pitch situations with your reputation intact and maybe even a few hot leads. For as long as I’ve been in business we‘ve been talking about refining the elevator pitch. That idea that an entrepreneur might serendipitously find themselves in…
Read MoreStartup advice from Anna-Lisa Wesley, Entrepreneur in Residence
In the first of a series of startup advice features with our Entrepreneurs in Residence (EiRs), we had a chat with Anna-Lisa Wesley to hear her top tips for startups. Our EiRs work with our members to provide support, advice and recommendations drawn from their own entrepreneurial backgrounds and specialist experience. In what ways does your…
Read MoreWe’re expanding our team with three new Entrepreneurs in Residence
We’re delighted to be expanding our team with three new Entrepreneurs in Residence (EiR) from August 2021. Anna-Lisa Wesley, Olivia Champion and Stewart Noakes have been appointed to join existing EiR, Rick Chapman. The increase to a team of four EiRs is in response to our growing membership, which is currently at 85 companies. In 2020, we widened our membership eligibility to founders or…
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