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About Us

Are you Old School or New School? Why not be both?

Join OSNS for FREE and enjoy the best of both worlds.

Whether youʼre an experienced entrepreneur or an emerging start-up star, this is the place for you to meet, share and learn from each other. From strategy and software, to forecasts and facebook, youʼll find a mixture of old school and new school perspectives that can give you and your business a real boost.

Winner of Northern Film & Media’s Big Society Big Ideas competition. 

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