Last Friday Techcrunch published a great post on the recent success of Tech City, the heart of London’s startup scene. According to data compiled by TechHub, and DueDil there are now 93 are true product companies in the region, up from 16 in 2008. The number of product startups across London is 211, so getting [...]
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It has emerged this morning that Huawei are bidding to provide mobile network on the London underground in time for the 2102 Olympics. In my opinion this development is long overdue. Just about every other major city I visit has mobile access on their metro system and if London is to remain a [...] Cisco and the UK government announced yesterday that Cisco will invest $500m in East London, in a boost to Cameron’s previously announced plans to build a tech cluster from Shoreditch to the Olympic Park. The money will go to build two networked innovation centres and five annual competitions for SMEs. Clusters are important for [...] At the NMK conference yesterday there was a bit of a debate about the relative merits of American optimism v. good old fashioned English cynicism. It got me thinking – and mostly that we could help ourselves a bit in this area. This is one corner of the “is Silicon Valley a much better [...] In case you haven’t heard the OpenCoffee meetings are moving to a new venue (apparently we were too popular for the Starbucks in Esprit). It will now be in the 5th View Bar at the top of Waterstones, 203-206 Piccadily. TrustedPlaces review here. More details about all things OpenCoffee can be found on Saul’s [...] And not just from the caffeine…. I thought Saul‘s meetup was excellent. Great atmosphere and some great people. I got way more out of it than I thought I would – and that isn’t meant to sound like I went in with low expectations. I didn’t. I’m looking forward to the next one. As [...] Saul Klein has organised this event on Thursday as a place for entrepreneurs to network with each other and investors. Great idea. I will be there this week and hopefully frequently after that. Details – Starbucks inside Espirit 178-82 Regent Street, London, 10am-12pm Thursday 1st March and I think each week after that. More [...] But I missed it. Gutted. Conference link here. Fred has a some great posts about it here on Arrington’s keynote, here on Ben’s VC talk, and for the techies amongst you here on Google, Amazon and Mashups. And Vecosys have a good day one summary here. Everyone I have met all week has been buzzing about FOWA and [...] |
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