The day of surprises

I would just like to inform the whole world that it´s impossible to get bored on the Business Management program at Hyper Island.

The school always seems to know how to make me happy. This time they surprised me and the rest of our class with telling about a big class project that we are about to make after the summer. Right now we are not sure about exactly what we´re going to do or where we are going to be.

Maybe you see us on the Swedish program called “Faddergalan” building children’s villages, or maybe we will sweep the streets in China, who knows? The whole point with this class project is to make a difference for someone, somewhere out in the world. I´m very excited and convinced that our class is going to make a huge difference, in some crazy way. Keep your eyes open.

/Nathalie Bemerholt

Blood, sweat and tears

The New Business module is about to end, just a few more days left. It is now blood, sweat, tears, and a lot of hard work on the schedule. The Business Plan should be finished and all the numbers in the budget have to be correct. Next week we are going to the bank, meeting a couple of different bank men and will present our business plan. The bank is then going to decide if they would give us a loan for our business idea. I think everybody is more or less nervous; of course we all want to succeed with our business ideas. And so we will, right?

Last but not least I would like to inform you about the weather here at Stumholmen in Karlskrona: Windy and stormy with a touch of rain, as usual.

/Nathalie Bemerholt

Starting a New Business

We're in the middle of the module New Business and working with our business ideas. It's fun and inspiring but also difficult and sometimes even confusing and frustrating. Then we’re lucky to have all this clever people around that can help us, like Lisa Anderson & Sarah Ejermark from Insight, structure coach Ann Westfelt and the entrepreneur Micke Ahlström. They do a really good work helping us.

While working with this module it's very useful to have the network that we've built during our time at Hyper Island. It's a lot of things to considerate when we develop our business ideas and writing a business plan and budget. Then it's great to have a lot of different people to ask. When we make a call or email any person we've met at Hyper Island we always get a lot of good information, that's really great!

Now there is one week of hard work left, and then we're supposed present our ideas to some investors at the bank. I'm really looking forward to it!

/Frida Öhrman