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DFJ Esprit offering £50k convertible note to winner of the Europas Tech Startup Grand Prix award

As revealed by Mike Butcher on Techcrunch last week DFJ Esprit will be offering a £50,000 convertible loan note to the Grand Prix winner of The Europas Tech Startup Awards.

We are excited to be supporting Mike and the Europas and look forward to welcoming a new company into the portfolio.

The loan [...]

50 Questions: What are the five biggest pitfalls to avoid during negotiations?

Thirty-seventh in a series of weekly posts by myself and Nicholas Lovell of Gamesbrief which answer the fifty questions you should ask before raising venture capital. We expect the series to run for a year after which we will collate the posts into a book. You can find the rationale behind the series here, [...]

Blodget’s charts history of battle between Android and Apple; says Apple should be worried

We are going through a phase of hardware replacement in our family at the moment. We have just bought our first Mac computer as a PC replacement (a Mac Mini) and Fiona has got a new iPhone. I still use a Blackberry for email, but I carry an iPhone as well which is due [...]