{"id":3565,"date":"2018-04-26T12:38:15","date_gmt":"2018-04-26T12:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/?p=3565"},"modified":"2018-04-26T12:38:15","modified_gmt":"2018-04-26T12:38:15","slug":"launching-a-start-up-at-imperial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/2018\/04\/26\/launching-a-start-up-at-imperial\/","title":{"rendered":"Launching a start-up at Imperial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year, I met Christian, a student of Service at The Royal College of Art. What it started as a conversation of business ideas, is now becoming a start-up.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re launching <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goal-bowl.com\/\">GoalBowl<\/a>. This is a breakfast mix subscription, tailor-made to your personal health and wellbeing goals. We match healthy ingredients to your goals based on their key nutrients and health benefits. This results in a tasty bowl made specially for you.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re working following the <a href=\"http:\/\/theleanstartup.com\/principles\">lean start-up approach<\/a>. We make sure that we work close to customers and their needs. With this in mind and with the support of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imperialenterpriselab.com\/\">Enterprise lab at Imperial<\/a>, we set our first booth at Sherfield building. We interacted with university stuff and students to learn about their interests in our service.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"904\" height=\"722\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3566 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/files\/2018\/04\/booth_imp.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By working closely with potential clients, we&#8217;re able to provide a better targeted product. Getting immediate feedback and impressions from people around you is a great way to start.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re a student at Imperial, you can participate in our one week trial. Drop your email <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goal-bowl.com\/\">on our website<\/a> and we will follow up with you \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>You can also follow our startup journey on social media: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/goalbowlmix\/\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Goalbowlmix\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/goalbowlmix\/\">Instagram<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year, I met Christian, a student of Service at The Royal College of Art. What it started as a conversation of business ideas, is now becoming a start-up. We&#8217;re launching GoalBowl. This is a breakfast mix subscription, tailor-made to your personal health and wellbeing goals. We match healthy ingredients to your goals based [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1164,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5598,148187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entrepreneurship","category-life-at-imperial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3565"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3568,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3565\/revisions\/3568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}