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Posted by Alex Bellinger on 21st February 2008.
If you wanted to pick a company that reflects the multi-cultural nature and buzz of the Web 2.0 scene here in London, then Kindo might just be your first choice.
Kindo’s site allows you to build an online family tree and keep in touch with your own flesh and blood near or far, much like its [...]
Posted by Guy Clapperton on 5th September 2007.
As promised last week, a little more on what successful entrepreneurs said to me about what they wished they’d known when they started up. The most interesting, financially, had to be the person - I won’t name them as the magazine that commissioned me naturally has first dibbs - who said that you should take [...]
Posted by David Tebbutt on 29th July 2007.
Vator.tv (yep, that’s a web address) has come up with an idea which works at many levels. Fundamentally, it invites entrepreneurs and innovators to record and submit their pitches. Then anyone who’s interested (that angel funder you’ve been looking for?) can see you and make up their minds if they want to take things further.
Not [...]
Posted by David Tebbutt on 2nd July 2007.
Last week, Library House - a research organisation which tracks early stage companies from birth to their liquidation event - held another of its excellent conferences at BFI’s IMAX theatre in Waterloo.
This time, the theme was ‘Essential Web’ and the event was packed with venture capitalists, support organisations, journalists and bloggers. They were all there [...]
Posted by David Tebbutt on 24th June 2007.
The editor has asked me to drop in the occasional profile of an entrepreneur. Here goes then:
Charles Armstrong thinks he’s had some lucky breaks on his way to securing a £3M investment in his social software company, Trampoline Systems. Like most luck, it comes to those who’ve prepared well.
If he didn’t know his subject (ethnography) [...]
Posted by David Tebbutt on 21st May 2007.
Hermann Hauser won an ‘investor of the year’ award a couple of weeks ago. During a ‘fireside chat’ with Innovate!Europe producer, Chris Shipley, he revealed what interests him most in today’s technology world.
His bedtime reading is about systems biology and how the principles of redundancy, repair, etc. might be applied to electronic systems. But, [...]
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