What is it?
- A training ground for unrealised ideas.
- A roomful of tiny services for the improvement and strengthening of tiny ideas e.g. there might be a desk where you can check your idea for viability, a naming terminal where you can work on your brand with someone in remote Norway, somebody with a typewriter who can help distill your idea's value proposition to less than ten words in less than ten minutes, and space for attendees to provide services too. We're going to try to get every service that an unrealised idea might need in one room.
- On arrival you will be welcomed by a receptionist and handed an exercise book for your idea. The receptionist might give you a recommended course of action for when you´re in the room "speak to Graeme, then go to the naming terminal, etc" and you'll agree with him or her what you want to leave with, like "I want to find three people I can call next week to move this forward, a name for the product and an accountant".
- Whether you have an unrealised idea and bring it along in your head, or an existing early-stage business that isn't fully 'there' yet, the event is open to anybody with an idea from Brighton & Hove, and the surrounding East Sussex area.
- Big, existing businesses can have unrealised ideas too, and it would be great if there were at least a few people in that situation there too.
- It is about bringing a fragile little idea along, you take it through a process and take it home with you again.
- It's a drop-in event, but please allow an hour or two to get something real out of it.
- No observers, or people who want to start something but don't know what (sorry).
- Innovative things are sometimes too small to register on the radar for government, or funders, or the media. Sometimes so small that they are only a tiny, neglected idea in the back of someone's head. But if you cluster together people with little innovative ideas, the clustering can help to magnify them.
- MIGHT is supported by the East Sussex and Brighton & Hove Innovation and Growth Team, programmed by Matt Weston (MAKE ROOM NOW) and produced by Jenny Reina (hunter-gatherers) and Graeme Walker (Coachwerks), in close collaboration with Werkshop.
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