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Posted by Alex Bellinger on 12th September 2008.
This week seems to have been packed with pitching startups. Receiving most attention, online at least, was the TechCrunch 50 event in San Francisco.
But TechCrunch frenemy Demo was also taking place, while in Europe Seedcamp announced its list of 25 startups for Seedcamp Week designed to provide specialist one-to-one mentoring, panel sessions and networking for [...]
Posted by Guy Clapperton on 14th November 2007.
For the first time in 12 years as a freelance operator it’s happening - I’m taking someone to court over non-payment of an invoice. They insist there’s a misunderstanding of the original commission, I insist there isn’t - we’ll let due process take place and see who comes out on top. I’ll blog the process [...]
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 4th June 2007.
Guy Kawasaki was the original Apple Macintosh evangelist. It’s where he started to make his name. These days he tries to devote himself to “empowering entrepreneurs.” As he puts it, “I try to do this three or four times a week with my blog, one hundred times a year with my speeches, two to three [...]
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SmallBizPod #40 - Interview with Colin Crooks of GreenworksColin Crooks, managing director of Greenworks, talks about recyclying business and the challenges and benefits of social entrepreneurship. Details | iTunes |
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