Richard Lucas on entrepreneurship (s5ep4)

Summary:

This is an interview that Richard Lucas had a long time ago with the University of Cambridge Careers.

About Richard Lucas:

My non-profit activities are primarily to do with entrepreneurship, the promotion of entrepreneurship, TED.com and TEDx, alumni activation, event hosting, public speaking and leadership.

I teach entrepreneurship and run business courses in Universities, schools and at community events.

The most high profile projects I am involved in are TEDxKazimierz, the Project Kazimierz podcast CAMentrepreneurs, Open Coffee Krakow, Krakow Enterprise Mondays and the Wojtek the Soldier Bear project, which I have written about here (and got a medal for), and Krakow Standup Comedy. I’m particularly interested in changing the way that schools and universities interact with their alumni with respect to the support of entrepreneurship. Although I don’t have direct involvement – I am a big supporter of Krakow Magicians community. I have been a Couchsurfer and still occasionally host and stay with people. Rather few people understand how big a commitment I have to TED.com and TEDx. Reading my TED.com profile help give a sense but doesn’t capture the scale of my engagement completely.

I also post links to interviews and mentions on social media platforms, and links to articles that I want to share. If you want to contact me try richardlucas (at) richardlucas.com Facebook or Linkedin.

My businesses are listed on my Linkedin profile – They are real businesses in the sense of having clients, staff, management, revenue and sometimes profits. I’ve done nothing as successful as Google or Facebook. but some – like Argos Multilingual – are among the best companies in the world in their sector, others like Zalamo , Notatek and ISL are market leaders in Poland, others like Unicard and SKK Global are very strong in some of the markets they are active in. PMR has a powerful brand in Poland as a source of unbiased forecasts and analysis, sectoral events and business services especially in the Construction, Life Sciences, IT and FMCG/retail sectors.

I have been in the management board of some of these businesses, CEO of two of them, and am on the Supervisory Board of three. If you want to do business with them and the idea makes sense I can help make introductions but I am not the ultimate decision maker, so don’t think that persuading me will be enough.

Others of my more recent investments are high profile are regarded as successful like Cambridge Mask, Estimote, Love Krakow, Syndicate Room, Untitled Kingdom and Vantage Power.

More on:
http://richardlucas.com/a-blog-about-entrepreneurship-the-promotion-of-entrepreneurship-tedx-and-other-great-ideas/