56 min
Interview with Peter Harrington of Venture Simulations Ltd. – a serial entrepreneur and family-man (s5ep24) Project Kazimierz: Innovation in Central Europe
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- Business
Summary:
Family-man and serial entrepreneur, Peter Harrington has a deep interest in education. Following graduation in York in 1989, he created his first business and over 15 years started and grew companies in the fields of research, marketing, design, print and consultancy.
Since 2005, Peter has been at the heart of Venture Simulations Ltd, a company that builds digital learning solutions and SimVenture business simulation technology for people seeking to acquire business start-up/scale-up skills. Whilst his professional roles involve much travel and reading, Peter is also at home when working with students and staff as an Entrepreneur in Residence at London School of Economics and London South Bank University
Shownotes:
Peter’s profile of Romano
Read about Frank Dawson’s centre where Peter volunteered here
Request a free personal licence in exchange for feedback here
* Simventure website
* Seth Godin on “getting into a famous college” and the importance of Non-Team Activities in his Akimbo podcast here
* Peter Harrington twitter
* Peter writes the blog ‘The Hitchiker’s Guide to Entrepreneurship’
* Margaret Heffernen whose TED Summit workshop on gratitude is described. Her books and TED talks are excellent.
* Your host’s father JR Lucas dedicated one of his books (Space, Time and Causality to all his teachers
* Don’t miss an episodes of Project Kazimierz – Sign up on i Tunes here
Summary:
Family-man and serial entrepreneur, Peter Harrington has a deep interest in education. Following graduation in York in 1989, he created his first business and over 15 years started and grew companies in the fields of research, marketing, design, print and consultancy.
Since 2005, Peter has been at the heart of Venture Simulations Ltd, a company that builds digital learning solutions and SimVenture business simulation technology for people seeking to acquire business start-up/scale-up skills. Whilst his professional roles involve much travel and reading, Peter is also at home when working with students and staff as an Entrepreneur in Residence at London School of Economics and London South Bank University
Shownotes:
Peter’s profile of Romano
Read about Frank Dawson’s centre where Peter volunteered here
Request a free personal licence in exchange for feedback here
* Simventure website
* Seth Godin on “getting into a famous college” and the importance of Non-Team Activities in his Akimbo podcast here
* Peter Harrington twitter
* Peter writes the blog ‘The Hitchiker’s Guide to Entrepreneurship’
* Margaret Heffernen whose TED Summit workshop on gratitude is described. Her books and TED talks are excellent.
* Your host’s father JR Lucas dedicated one of his books (Space, Time and Causality to all his teachers
* Don’t miss an episodes of Project Kazimierz – Sign up on i Tunes here
56 min