Congratulations to Jay Nguyen and Chris Maddern for another well-run Flagon’s Den evening last night, with copious free pizza and beer (though… Budweiser? Try a local microbrewery next time, guys!) to feed and water the decent-sized turnout. They held the event at Innovation Warehouse right in the middle of Smithfield Market, though sadly a little too early in [...]
It’s a line that just about every entrepreneur should have printed on his/her business card and/or forehead, to help fend off the waves of startup service company representatives that assail you at pretty much every public event you go to: patent agents / IP lawyers hotdesk / virtual office / virtual fax / virtual phone answering / [...]
Here’s something pretty much every UK entrepreneur and business angel needs to be thinking about right now! In July 2011, HM Treasury put out a request for consultation on proposals to change the way EIS (“Enterprise Investment Scheme”) works (download the 679K PDF linked about a page down from the top). Even though the government upgraded EIS [...]
As recommended yesterday by Ben Markland on the London OpenCoffee meetup forum, here’s a video from July 2011 you might enjoy: a 50-minute lecture + Q&A session by Fred Destin at Miniseedcamp Ljubljana. Fred’s a smart guy, and manages to squeeze in the whole lifecycle of startups: founders (the magic number is two), funding, launch, build, the [...]
Even when I first started going about “gamification” back in 2002 or so, I had a clear vision of what I was talking about. As you can see from my (long defunct) Conundra web site, I was basically reaching out to “manufacturers (to help) evolve their electronic devices into entertainment platforms“; and, as part of this [...]
