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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Posted by Alex Bellinger on 17th May 2007.
I don’t know whether it’s just me, but business angels, dragon’s dens, VCs and giving up equity seem to be all I’m hearing about at the moment in terms of start-up funding.
The most recent example to come to my attention being “Running The Gauntlet“, an interesting investment competition and education programme run by the East [...]
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Posted by David Tebbutt on 14th May 2007.
Last week the Guidewire Group held its third Innovate!Europe event, where startups get to strut their stuff in front of their peers, venture capitalists, angel investors, early adopters and the press.
As you know, a lot of computing activity is moving to the web and, therefore, to mobile devices. One of the exhibiting companies, fring, summed [...]
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Posted by Alex Bellinger on 9th May 2007.
The popularity of Dragon’s Den has been one of the inspirations behind the launch of new online funding service Angels Den, according to its managing director Bill Morrow.
Very simply Angels Den connects UK business angels with entrepreneurs seeking investment. It aims to help fill the sub-£500,000 funding gap for early stage businesses. It [...]
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