Author Archives: Joseph Ajilore

About Joseph Ajilore

Apparently, I'm far more interesting in person. Co-founder of YHP and many other things.

Raising over $166M in investment – A trip down memory lane with Sebastian Siemiatkowski of Klarna Interviews

I recently caught up with Sebastian Siemiatkowski, the founder and CEO of Klarna – one of Europe’s leading providers of payment solutions for e-commerce and took a trip down memory lane. He ta Read More...

Q/A session with Henrik Berggren – Founder of Readmill Interviews

So much has been said over the past few years about: The rise of the ebook, the death of traditional publishing, the emergence of self publishing and If your moving away from physical books into the K Read More...

Talking early beginnings, aiHit, bootstrapping and investments – with Jens Lapinski Entrepreneurship

I recently interviewed Jens Lapinski, the founder of aiHit, a London-based, VC-backed business information services company and recently one of the new members of the entrepreneur in residence at Forw Read More...

Introducing – Europe’s first ever venture capital competition exclusively for students Events

Anthony Silver, the former President of the LSE SU Entrepreneurs incumbent ‘Pitch It!’ business planning competition has decided to take his business planning competition a step further to Read More...

Interview with Ville Vesterinen – Co-founder and CEO of Location-based mobile company, Grey Area Interviews

I recently spoke to Ville Vesterinen about his latest startup Grey Area Labs. Ville Vesterinen is the Co-founder and CEO of the Location-based mobile company and prior to joining Grey Area Labs, Ville Read More...

How Ryan Notz went from stonemasonry to MyBuilder with the aim of fixing the UK construction industry. Entrepreneurship

After becoming frustrated with agencies setting him up with work that didn’t quite meet his skill sets, Ryan decided to do the only possible thing – disrupt the construction industry in th Read More...

Q/A session with Vladimir Oane – Founder of uberVU Entrepreneurship

I briefly caught up with Vladimir Oane, founder of uberVU – uberVU is an end-to-end social intelligence dashboard which is used to track and monitor all social media platforms in real-time. In o Read More...

Europe’s largest holiday rental website – Interview with Arnaud Bertrand, founder of HouseTrip Entrepreneurship

I admit it! I was abit jealous, in some ways I find Arnaud and my path a bit similar – I guess in the whole starting a Housetrip kind of website thingy – I actually did start it, this was Read More...

How Blipfoto became a Bafta award winning website – Interview with Joe Tree Entrepreneurship

On a rainy Sunday afternoon in October 2004, Joe decided to spend the day setting up a simple website in his bedroom where he can post a picture a day and write something about it. The idea was simple Read More...

[NEF Interview series] Introducing Rousseau Dasgupta Entrepreneurship

Using your university entrepreneurs society to ignite your entrepreneurial spark can be key to your journey as an entrepreneur and today I interview Rousseau Dasgupta as part of my NEF interview serie Read More...

Surviving the dot com bubble and starting Mubaloo – Interview with Mark Mason Entrepreneurship

It is no news that the app development industry is blowing up, with the releases of smartphones such as blackberry, iphone, ipad etc. This year promises to be another year of breakthrough apps with mo Read More...

[NEF Interview series] Introducing Videesha Kunkulagunta Entrepreneurs

In my latest NEF interview series, I speak to Videesha Kunkulagunta. Videesha is a graduate from the Warwick business school and currently works as a Project Researcher in the network innovation team Read More...

Win up to £50k investment from NACUE and Lloyds TSB – Lloyds TSB Enterprise Awards Media

Student Entrepreneur Starting up a business whilst studying can be so much fun and hardwork. The university environment gives you the perfect platform to discover and experiment ideas, but as you know Read More...

Bringing together the world’s most ambitious students – Sparks@LSE 2012 Events

I guess still having a vivid memory of the last event has to count for something, It’s a testament of how amazing and how well the team did at the last event. Check out my Interview with the fou Read More...

[NEF Interview series] Introducing Jake Higgins Entrepreneurs

Jake went from working in an online record label (MudHut Digital) twice a week in his first year of university to staring up Going Social. He currently works with Alex Kelleher at Cognitive Match as p Read More...