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RIG partners with Irish company innovating in grid code compliance

RIG has begun a new engagement with an Irish company providing power quality and reliability solutions to the energy sector.

Premium Power is the developer of Decision Metrix, an enterprise analytics solution that enables network operators and distribution network operators to police and understand generator performance and grid code compliance.

RIG  is undertaking a global validation study to confirm market demand and identify early adopters.

Posted by RIG Admin on April 1, 2013 at 11:54 am in News, News Archive | Permalink | Comments (0) | Trackback (0)

         

RIG to present at Escape the City workshop

RIG consultants Simon Jackson, David Gates, and Jessica Tayenjam will be presenting at ‘An introduction to building a startup’ run by the Escape School from Escape the City.

The day-long workshop takes place on Saturday 9 March at The Hub Westminster. RIG will be running modules on strategy and sales.

Tickets for the event are available here.

Posted by RIG Admin on February 26, 2013 at 10:03 am in News, News Archive | Permalink | Comments (0) | Trackback (0)

         

RIG opens Entrepreneur in Residence programme

In 2013, Rapid Innovation Group finds itself in possession of a significant amount of knowledge which could be of great value to the right type of entrepreneurs.

Throughout this year, we are providing an opportunity for entrepreneurs from any discipline – technology or otherwise – to spend time working from our central London address.

It may be the case that this provides an entrepreneur with an established business the opportunity to access the London market more easily. Alternatively, for an entrepreneur with an idea, it may provide a structured environment within which to incubate a concept.

All entrepreneurs in residence will have access to Rapid Innovation Group’s experienced practitioners, as well as support to reach the next milestone in their business.

For more information, visit the Careers section of the RIG website.

Posted by RIG Admin on February 13, 2013 at 3:43 pm in News, News Archive | Permalink | Comments (0) | Trackback (0)

         

Rapid Innovation Group to host London F# User Group

On February 9 2013, Rapid Innovation Group will host the London F# Community Code Sprint at its offices in Holborn, London.

More details are here.

Posted by RIG Admin on February 5, 2013 at 9:06 am in News, News Archive | Permalink | Comments (0) | Trackback (0)

         

RIG in Greater China promoting partnerships for Oil & Gas technology client

December saw RIG in China and Taiwan cementing local partner relationships for its Oil and Gas technology client. The client operates in a global market and has chosen partnering as the preferred route for rapid geographical scaling.  RIG started building these partnerships 18 months ago in order to seed the next round of the client’s expansion after North American and Western Europe, and now manages them on an ongoing basis.

While the partners were chosen for the attributes that they share – engineering knowledge, market access, entrepreneurial attitude and integrity – they are quite different organisations. RIG’s emphasis has been on creating a partnering approach and processes that are repeatable.

Subsequently, using this model RIG has helped the client to build partnerships in Brazil, India and Nigeria.

“Some of RIG’s high-IP clients need to establish global presence rapidly. RIG actively exploits its linguistic and cultural fluency to help them to identify, build and manage the international and regional partnerships they need to succeed”, says Simon Jackson, Director at RIG.

Posted by RIG Admin on December 20, 2012 at 11:12 am in News, News Archive | Permalink | Comments (0) | Trackback (0)

         

Applications now open for summer 2013 internships

Applications are now open for the RIG summer 2013 internship programme. To apply, please send a CV and cover letter to Jessica Tayenjam at jessica@rapidinnovation.co.uk.

First round interviews will begin in January 2013. Recruitment will occur on an ongoing basis, so candidates are encourage to apply early.

For more information on careers opportunities at RIG, please visit our Careers page or like us on Facebook for regular updates.

Posted by RIG Admin on October 1, 2012 at 2:28 pm in News | Permalink | Comments (0) | Trackback (0)

         

RIG joins leading Irish startup community

RIG consultant Sameer Pal recently delivered a presentation on value-based selling in the global market for IP-rich companies to the resident companies at University College Dublin’s NovaUCD facility.

As a result of this successful presentation, RIG has been asked to join the NovaUCD community as a resident expert on sales. RIG will be offering one-to-one advice and mentoring sessions to the companies being incubated at NovaUCD.

University College Dublin is a leading research-intensive university with an international reputation for being at the forefront of innovative research and creative discovery. NovaUCD is the hub for new ventures and entrepreneurs, a purpose-built, state-of-the-art incubation facility for knowledge-intensive companies. To find out more about NovaUCD, visit their website here.

Posted by RIG Admin on September 17, 2012 at 4:24 pm in News | Permalink | Comments (0) | Trackback (0)

         

RIG consultant co-founds crowdfunding platform

RIG consultant Paul Higgins is parting from the company after five fruitful years in order to co-found a new crowdfunding platform, Crowd Valley.

Crowd Valley is a US-based company providing technology infrastructure to allow anyone around the world to offer crowdfunding to their communities.

RIG wishes Paul all the best in his new venture.

To find out more about Crowd Valley, visit crowdvalley.com. To keep up to date with Paul, visit his new blog at startupagitator.com.

Posted by RIG Admin on July 31, 2012 at 3:45 pm in News | Permalink | Comments (0) | Trackback (0)

         

RIG Presents at Cambridge Cleantech

RIG strategists, Simon Jackson and Paul Higgins, recently presented at a Cambridge Cleantech event held at Mills & Reeve law firm in Cambridge, UK. Presenting on the issues surrounding taking high-IP technologies to market, Simon began the presentation by covering a series of issues essential to establishing an effective strategy in terms of moving out of product development and into the market:

Paul Higgins then went on to provide a couple of case studies of how to put this theory into practice:

Posted by Aaron Ralby on June 20, 2012 at 2:07 pm in Demand Generation, News, Strategy | Permalink | Comments (0) | Trackback (0)

         

RIG client wins prestigious METAward

Former RIG client Semafone recently won the Merchant Emerging Technology Award in the Start-up category. The award recognises solution providers who deliver the most innovative, cutting edge technology for managing payments and risk in electronic commerce. Semafone’s win came as the result of an extensive assessment process by the Merchant Risk Council (MRC) and presentations by the finalists at the MRC annual conference in Las Vegas.

Semafone will also be presenting at the MRC European Congress taking place 25^th-27^th April in Dublin. To find out more about Semafone, please visit www.semafone.com.

Posted by RIG Admin on April 23, 2012 at 12:36 pm in News | Permalink | Comments (0) | Trackback (0)

         

RIG clients execute over $3m in Q1 sales

RIG has broken its sales record in the first part of 2012 by completing over $3 million worth of sales alongside clients in Q1. These sales represent both ground-breaking initial enterprise sales for early stage clients, as well as significant deals across multiple geographies for clients in the later stage of scaling.

Posted by RIG Admin on April 5, 2012 at 12:55 pm in News | Permalink | Comments (0) | Trackback (0)