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They are also very welcome to join Access:VFX's free mentoring programme on Prospela for career advice and insider insights from real employees.

We work with @tombox and the other sponsors of this award and are looking for VFX / gaming mentors too :)

https://initiatives.prospela.com/access-vfx

Hey HN!

I'm Emma Sullivan, Co-Founder & CEO of UK social enterprise Prospela.com.

Last year, I was one of 150 British citizens awarded a research fellowship to investigate inspiring practices abroad and return with innovative ideas to benefit people across the UK.

I travelled some 11,000 miles across the US & Canada as part of the Churchill Fellowship, to explore best practice and the use of tech in helping a wider range of businesses engage in corporate volunteerism.

Having met some 60+ leading corporates, high-growth start-ups, SMEs and thought-leaders (such as the UN and WEF), the result comes in the form of ten Benchmarks defining strong corporate volunteerism execution which are applicable to companies of varying sizes (established, high-growth and SME). My aim now is to support companies in strong volunteering delivery in the education world specifically, through my start-up Prospela.

I encourage you to explore the CSRtech Benchmarks in detail alongside my other findings at CSRtech.org.

Get in touch - would love to hear your thoughts!

I use WorkFlowy and absolutely love it. Its essentially a bare bones version of Evernote and proud ...

"Nowadays you can ... easily outsource the first version".

Fine.

But doing it yourself is not a sign of "bad" entrepreneurism.

Many of my peers outsourced build, sunk a lot of cash/time/energy and went through various teams of developers and still dont have product.

Building yourself means you can continuously and efficiently adapt your product to user feedback, preserve cash and make sound recruitment decisions (through having an in-the-field understanding of skills gaps).

Have you heard anything? We haven't here in the UK.