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词条 Thomas Whitfield (entrepreneur)
释义

  1. Biography

  2. Business Ventures

     Designthetime.com (Miomi.com)  Oxfords Biolabs and TRX2 

  3. Coverage in Popular Media

  4. See also

  5. References

  6. External links

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}}Thomas Whitfield (born 30 November 1981) is a British/German biochemist and entrepreneur. He is known for the dietary supplement TRX2 and his work on DesignTheTime.com.[1][2]

Biography

Thomas Whitfield was born in Kirkcaldy, Scotland.[1][2] He spent his childhood and early schooling in Germany as his mother is German.[1] He holds a DPhil (PhD) in Biochemistry from Christ Church, University of Oxford.[3][4]

Being an Idea Idol of University of Oxford,[4] he was selected as one of the 2009 Flying Start Global Entrepreneurs by the National Council for Graduate Entrepreneurship (NCGE) of Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), UK.[4] In 2009 he was selected as a Kauffman Foundation Global Scholar.[5]

Business Ventures

Designthetime.com (Miomi.com)

He was a co-founder and director[6] of DesignTheTime.com[7]"[8])[9] (later called Miomi.com) which plots user-generated personal histories.[6][10][11][11][4][7][9][12][13] The website attracted vast media attention throughout Europe and was ranked as one of the Top 10 UK Web 2.0 startups in 2007[14] with co-operation agreements including Microsoft,[7][15][16][17] Wikipedia (Wikimedia Foundation),[4][11][17] Brockhaus[13] and the British Library.[4] Despite its popularity the website went offline in 2008 for unknown reasons.

Oxfords Biolabs and TRX2

In 2009 Whitfield founded the company Oxford Biolabs.[1] In 2011 its first product TRX2 (trichos=hair in ancient Greek; 2=second generation),[1] a dietary supplement became publicly available.[2]

Coverage in Popular Media

Work of Whitfield has been featured in The Daily Telegraph[1][2][18] several times, as well as in The Observer,[19] CNN,[8] New Scientist,[20] Der Spiegel,[21] RTL[22] and Tagesschau[23] In 2007 he has been featured during the Google Zeitgeist Entrepreneur of the Year conference.[24]

See also

  • Oxford BioLabs

References

1. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 {{cite news|last=Tyler|first=Richard|title=Thomas Whitfield: The Oxford student who plans to make baldness a thing of the past|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/yourbusiness/brightideas/4268434/Thomas-Whitfield-The-Oxford-student-who-plans-to-make-baldness-a-thing-of-the-past.html|accessdate=23 July 2012|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|date=16 January 2009}}
2. ^1 2 3 {{cite news|last=Tyler|first=Richard|title=Thomas Whitfield's German roots help hair loss product launch|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/yourbusiness/8248046/Thomas-Whitfields-German-roots-help-hair-loss-product-launch.html|accessdate=23 July 2012|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|date=9 January 2011}}
3. ^{{cite news|title=ChCh Grad wins $100m backing|url=http://www.chch.ox.ac.uk/news/2007/idea-idol|accessdate=23 July 2012|newspaper=Christ Church News|date=31 March 2009}}
4. ^1 2 3 4 5 {{cite news|title=Flying start for young entrepreneur|url=http://www.ox.ac.uk/media/news_stories/2009/090116_2.html|accessdate=23 July 2012|newspaper=University of Oxford News|date=16 January 2009|location=United Kingdom|format=Web|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120929212137/http://www.ox.ac.uk/media/news_stories/2009/090116_2.html|archivedate=29 September 2012|df=dmy-all}}
5. ^{{cite web|title=Meet the 2009 Scholars and Faculty|url=http://sites.kauffman.org/globalscholars/meet.cfm|work=Global Scholar Program|publisher=Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation|accessdate=24 July 2012|format=Web|year=2009|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111223083911/http://sites.kauffman.org/globalscholars/meet.cfm|archivedate=23 December 2011|df=dmy-all}}
6. ^1 {{cite news|title=Miomi – Geschichte selbst schreiben|url=http://www.golem.de/0710/55339.html|accessdate=23 July 2012|newspaper=Goldem.de|date=12 October 2007|location=Germany|language=German|format=Web}}
7. ^1 2 {{cite news|title=Judges back a winner with their own money in Idea Idol competition|url=http://www.ox.ac.uk/media/news_stories/2007/070220a.html|accessdate=24 July 2012|date=20 February 2007|agency=University of Oxford|location=United Kingdom|format=Web|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120929212121/http://www.ox.ac.uk/media/news_stories/2007/070220a.html|archivedate=29 September 2012|df=dmy-all}}
8. ^1 {{cite news|last=Walker|first=Peter|title=The business boat race|url=http://edition.cnn.com/2007/BUSINESS/02/20/execed.Oxbridge2/index.html?iref=allsearch|accessdate=24 July 2012|newspaper=CNN.com|date=20 February 2007|agency=CNN|format=Web}}
9. ^1 {{cite news|title=Businessplan-Wettbewerb Die 100.000.000-Dollar-Idee|url=http://www.sueddeutsche.de/karriere/businessplan-wettbewerb-die-dollar-idee-1.546635-2|accessdate=24 July 2012|newspaper=Sueddeutsche.de|date=15 February 2007|location=Germany|language=German|format=Web}}
10. ^{{cite news|last=Hüsing|first=Alexander|title=miomi macht Geschichte|url=http://www.deutsche-startups.de/2007/10/12/miomi-macht-geschichte/|accessdate=24 July 2012|newspaper=Deutsche-Startups|date=12 October 2007|location=Germany|language=German|format=Web}}
11. ^1 2 {{cite news|title=Auf dem Zeitstrahl in die Business-Welt: Thomas und Miomi.com|url=http://jetzt.sueddeutsche.de/texte/anzeigen/400532|accessdate=24 July 2012|newspaper=jetzt.sueddeutsche.de|date=4 October 2007|author=Christian Helten|authorlink=|location=Germany|language=German|format=Web}}
12. ^{{cite news|title=Jeder kann im Internet Geschichte schreiben|url=https://www.welt.de/wams_print/article1852151/Jeder-kann-im-Internet-Geschichte-schreiben.html|accessdate=24 July 2012|newspaper=Welt Online|date=30 March 2008|author=Von Olaf Schlippe|location=Germany|language=German|format=Web}}
13. ^1 {{cite news|title=Internetunternehmen Miomi Die 100-Millionen-Dollar-Geschichte|url=https://www.handelsblatt.com/unternehmen/mittelstand/internetunternehmen-miomi-die-100-millionen-dollar-geschichte/2886934.html|accessdate=24 July 2012|newspaper=Handelsblatt|date=14 January 2008|author=Thomas Knüwer|agency=Handelsblatt|location=Germany|language=German|format=Web}}
14. ^{{cite news|title=The top 25 UK web 2.0 start ups|url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/16/the_top_25_uk_web_startups/|accessdate=24 July 2012|newspaper=The Register|date=16 March 2007|author=Tech Digest|format=Web}}
15. ^{{cite web|title=Attenda Provides Hosting for Miomi|url=http://www.thewhir.com/web-hosting-news/attenda-provides-hosting-for-miomi|publisher=Web Host Industry Review|accessdate=24 July 2012|author=theWHIR.com|format=Web|date=23 November 2007}}
16. ^{{cite news|title=Miomi, the online timeline where you can store memories, and view the world's events|url=http://www.techdigest.tv/2007/11/miomi_the_onlin.html|accessdate=24 July 2012|newspaper=Tech Digest|date=15 November 2007|author=Katherine Hannaford|format=Web}}
17. ^1 {{cite news|title=Miomi.com: Miomi Makes History; Time browsing site tipped to be Britain's YouTube|url=http://callcenterinfo.tmcnet.com/news/2007/12/07/3148573.htm|accessdate=24 July 2012|date=7 December 2007|agency=Contact Center Solution Community|format=Web}}
18. ^[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1543118/Students-planning-to-sell-moments-in-time.html Students Planning to Sell Moments in Time], The Daily Telegraph, UK.
19. ^{{cite news|title=Under 30, online and world-beating|url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2007/feb/25/news.theobserver|accessdate=24 July 2012|newspaper=The Observer|date=25 February 2007|author=David Smith|agency=The Guardian|location=United Kingdom|format=Web}}
20. ^{{cite news|last=Palmer|first=Jason|title=Graduate Special: Become an inventor|url=https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19826573.200-graduate-special-become-an-inventor.html|accessdate=24 July 2012|newspaper=New Scientist|date=21 May 2008|agency=New Scientist|format=Web}}
21. ^{{cite news|title=Startup miomi Magische Momente im globalen Dorf|url=http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/startup-miomi-magische-momente-im-globalen-dorf-a-490928.html|accessdate=24 July 2012|newspaper=Spiegel Online|date=29 June 2007|author=Von Karolin Schaps|agency=Spiegel Online|language=German|format=Web}}
22. ^[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgmDjnCL5EQ Miomi – User Generated History], YouTube.com; Retrieved on: 23 July 2012.
23. ^[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLgytygf0os&feature=relmfu Thomas Whitfield from Miomi at XTOPIA 2008], YouTube.com; Retrieved on: 23 July 2012.
24. ^[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ8lnMF5IB0 Thomas Whitfield – Google Zeitgeist Serial Entrepreneurship Series 2007], YouTube.com; Retrieved on: 23 July 2012.

External links

  • [https://www.oxfordbiolabs.com/ oxfordbiolabs.com], Oxford BioLabs Official Website
  • [https://www.oxfordbiolabs.com/collections/trx2/ oxfordbiolabs.com/collections/trx2], TRX2 Official Website
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