Graduates with ideas now have an incredible opportunity to join coworking at THECUBE. This coworking opportunity will allow graduates to start an enterprise with a solid foundation, a ready made creative community, and business resources.

We also have an in-house innovation agency called Idea Engineering to advice you on your ideas. If you are not sure where to start drop by any Friday between 4pm-5pm for a free advice session or get on our mailing list to attend Free community events info@thecubelondon.com.

GRADUATE PACK: Starter*
£5 per month
5hr per month workspace
30 min enterprise consultation
1hr per month meeting space
30 min Design conseltation by minimoko

GRADUATE PACK: Plus *
£10 per month
5hrs per month workspace use
30min enterprise consultation
1hr per month meeting space
Mail box
Business address
30 min Design consultation by minimoko

* Please not that this membership is for graduates within 2 years of university and under 25 years of age. Graduates have a genuine interest in starting their own enterprise. It is not intended to be used for company employees.

THECUBE in Shoreditch East London will be hosting the graduate graphic design collective Emerge. There will be different activities through out the week, which we will be announcing on a weekly basis as we count down to London Design Festival in September.

The first highlight will be the posters Emerge will be creating especially for the festival, they will be posted all over East London including the London Underground and THECUBE. Each poster will convey a different letter in specially designed typography. Londoners will then be able to put the letters together to form the message, so keep your eyes peeled.

For more information on how to get involved or if you want to pitch an idea, please contact THECUBE coworking space info@thecubelondon.com.

THECUBE will be hosting an new platform for graduates called INCUBE8. The idea was created by Richie Manu, who runs the respected portfolio night, Consurgo as well as being a professor at Central St. Martins.

Objectives

To give Graduates a process and a platform from which to interpret briefs, produce ideas, and create innovative solutions for clients.

Graduates need to be sharper than ever and learn from inception how to be innovative thinkers to prepare them for an ever changing economy.

Outline

Graduates will be given industry briefs, which they will create solutions for. This is a week process and will end with a presentation on the Friday to a selected panel.

The Team

Richie Manu: Interpreting the brief

Alison Coward: Founder of Bracket Projects will be guiding Graduates on how to collaborate and the commercial value of their idea.

Araceli Camargo-Kilpatrick: Founder of THECUBE and a partner of Idea Engineering will be guiding Graduates on Idea Generation, Implementation, and Idea Economy.

The Guardian gave some gruesome statistics on graduate employment and without being alarmist it will continue to get worse towards the middle of next year. However, you can either see this as a time of difficulty or a time of change and opportunity. The rules for the economy are yet to be written and the leaders yet to be elected, so why not capitalize on what graduates do best …. CREATE IDEAS?

As John Lennon said once in an interview ‘ there is nothing rock n roll about doing what some else has done’. This new era of economy will be driven by new ideas, creativity, and innovation. People are desperate for them as a matter of fact, which puts young fresh minds at a total advantage, you can either compete with industry or enhance it,  either way Graduates stand to win. Well, those that have the insight to start their own idea.

THECUBE has several Graduate enterprises such as WHY! and The Gateway, who started an enterprise based on needs they observed within their peer group.

Our Graduate Packs, offer meeting space hire, 5 hours of coworking usage,  and virtual office services.

5 Things Graduates should be doing

Create new industries
Instead of waiting for one to come along which is going to capitalize on all your new found knowledge, start one of your own. Think Facebook ( social networks). One of the next industries will be collaborative software, there are many software developers creating new on-line tools to help entrepreneurs communicate and share ideas on-line. There is also coworking spaces, which will be the future of working and networking. What is other industry can you start?

Create Think Tanks with other Graduates
Right now your network of people is at its tightest, so use that to start something. Form a diverse and interesting group of people and really push diversity, the last thing that you want is a room full of the same type of people thinking the same thing. Push away from your comfort zone, knowledge, and capabilities to a create a group of people that will create interesting ideas. Meet up every week and start thinking, observing, creating, prototyping, and discussing.

Create Partnerships
Once your ideas have flowed, start to create partnerships with other Graduates and start an enterprise. Create something that is lean and can be implemented straight away, this way you will not need to rely on investment or resources. The best resource will be the strength of your idea and the people that you have partnered with.

Turn your industry upside down
What are they not doing? Is it a saturated industry ? Where are they failing their clients?  Can the industry be better as a hybrid?  Does your industry need to pivot? Are there markets that your industry needs to reach?

Move away from the crowd
Leadership never occurs from moving with the crowd, observe what all other people are doing and move away. Most are going through graduate training programs, dead-end internships, or simply sitting in isolated rooms sending one faceless CV after another.  So, look at opportunities observe the world around you and create something new or contribute to companies that are starting up to gain experience.

We are a supportive coworking space for young and upcoming entrepreneurs, that encourages enterprises and creatives to work together and build successful and innovative ideas. Our Grad packs gives Kingston Entrepreneurs an affordable place to start their enterprise.

Graduates are finding it challenging to make progress within employment and their minds are going to waste. THECUBE is doing its bit to help this generation and we are doing so by offering incredibly affordable workspace and a community that members can tap into whenever they like.

Watch this space as we are working to develop a ‘graduate enterprise’ programme to make the transition into enterprise easy and tangible. When there are no opportunities, we must make them for ourselves and we are completely certain this encouragement will lead to various creative, innovative, and strong enterprises.