Spent some time talking to the 40th Annual SCDI Forum held in St Andrews on the challenges of starting and growing a business and in particular about the excellent support structures offered by the Prince’s Scottish Youth Business Trust (PSYBT). It was an interesting session and I found Will Hutton (of The Work Foundation) in [...]
China Youth Development Foundation visit Seric Towers
By Stuart Macdonald in General on 15 December
Delegates from China Youth Development Foundation came along to Seric Towers today to learn about how The Prince’s Scottish Youth Business Trust (PSYBT) conducts itself and the impact of the Charity. As part of three day visit to Scotland meeting a number of different organisations one of which was another Paisley based organisation, the wonderful [...]
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Seric MD’s Speech to YBI on their impact on Global Youth Entrepreneurship.
By Stuart Macdonald in General on 30 September
EVENT: THE PRINCE’S YOUTH BUSINESS INTERNATIONAL – ANNUAL AWARD DINNER 2010 DATE & VENUE: Thursday 23rd September 2010, Bosque Real Country Club, Mexico Just before I throw in the transcript you may be interested to know that for every $1 put into youth entrepreneurship worldwide they generate $3 for their local economies. That is a [...]
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Seric MD wins Youth Business International’s Inaugural Ambassador Award
By Stuart Macdonald in General on 30 September
Seric’s Managing Director Stuart Macdonald travelled to Mexico with The Prince’s Youth Business International (YBI) to be one of four judges in there EOY competition. Detail taken from http://blog.youthbusiness.org/eoy-judges-panel/ EOY Judges’ Panel Guillermo Baeza Guillermo Baeza Co-founder, Grupo Bafar Guillermo is the man behind some of Mexico’s most famous food brands. Grupo Bafar is one of [...]
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We at Seric Towers are committed to local enterprise and giving back to the charity that got us started in the first place. Which is why we have again (for 3rd successive year) put our money in close proximity to our mouth. September will see “Somebody” in the word of Lord Sugar get the Award [...]
Know any kids you think might fancy a career in IT?
By Stuart Macdonald in General on 11 March
It's The Ruddy Future from Stephen Levin on Vimeo. Made me titter a little. A contact of mine at IBM, Jacqueline Davey, recently gave me some info following a discussion we had about widening the demographic of folks making it into blue chip technology companies. A subject close to my heart as my science savy [...]
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