Raj Anand

Raj Anand (born 1982) is a Brighton-based web entrepreneur. He was one of eighteen Young Entrepreneurs in Europe profiled by BusinessWeek in 2007.[1] He is also the ambassador[2] for the Enterprise UK campaign. Anand was the founder and operations director [3] at social network service provider Kwiqq and author of Social Media's Impact on Recruitment and HR.

For the author, see Mulk Raj Anand.
Raj Anand
Born (1982-03-06) March 6, 1982
Kuwait
Occupationinternet entrepreneur

Personal life

Rajeshwar Singh Anand was born in Kuwait and grew up mainly in Kuwait,[4] India and UK.

Early life and now

Anand has a bachelor's degree in computer system engineering and Master of Research in Computer science and Artificial intelligence from University of Sussex.[5] He was one of six entrepreneurs chosen by the panel and won Government funding to take a short Master of Business Administration course at Cranfield University. A Brighton-based investor, David Hill, provided the funding for Anand's first business, Kwiqq, which he launched at the age of 23.[6][3] Anand has spoken at the British Library[7] and Foreign and Commonwealth Office in support of entrepreneurship and the MakeYourMark campaign[8], and is also the creator of SUE, Sussex University Entrepreneurs.[9] He now is the founder and CEO of a content writing services company, Goodman Lantern.[10]

gollark: At least I can feel smugly superior about my website still being up, even if it regularly goes down for a bit every few days for no apparent reason.
gollark: I have Discord open in multiple browser tabs, and *this* one works fine, but the others are disconnected, weirdly.
gollark: Apparently no.
gollark: Google almost certainly handles most of the ads *automatically*, though you'd really think they could filter for keywords.
gollark: It says it's already claimed anyway.

References
  1. "An Indian who made good". Hindustan Times. Retrieved 2008-07-30.
  2. "Inspiring Stories". Archived from the original on December 13, 2009. Retrieved 2008-07-30.
  3. "Social Website Builder Kwiqq". Retrieved 2008-07-30.
  4. "Europe's Young Entrepreneurs 2007". BusinessWeek. Retrieved 2008-07-30.
  5. "Study UK". Hobsons UK. Retrieved 2008-07-30.
  6. "Social climbing pays in the virtual world". The Argus (Brighton). Retrieved 2008-07-30.
  7. "Social Networking at British Library". Retrieved 2008-07-30.
  8. "Brighton's YES Network hosts 'Enterprise Changes Lives'". Retrieved 2008-07-30.
  9. / "SUE - Sussex University Entrepreneurs" Check |url= value (help).
  10. "Raj Anand LinkedIn". Retrieved 2008-07-30.
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