Nic Brisbourne’s view from London on venture capital and exploiting change in technology and media
Applications for this year’s Seedcamp are open, and close on August 10th - apply here. For those that don’t know Seedcamp is similar to Y-Combinator - lots of promising young startups apply for the opportunity to receive help from a great bunch of mentors and to get startup funding.
Last year proved really worthwhile for [...]
The following post has been sitting in draft form since Seedcamp week in early September. I have tried to pick out the key insights from a couple of panels/presentations where people discussed product - they were mostly thinking about consumer internet.
These points are in no particular order.
If you are building something you would use yourself [...]
David Crane of Debatewise wrote a great post about what he got out of Seedcamp over on the Seedcamp blog. It is full of juicy goodness and great to read that David (and others) got a lot out of Seedcamp week. The whole post is worth a read but I wanted to pick out one [...]
There was a great panel at Seedcamp this morning where Niklas Zennstrom, Marc Samwer, Charlie Muihead, Toby Rowland and Richard Moross shared their experiences as entrepreneurs with the assembled crowd.
Lots of good stuff was said, but one thing stood out for me. Moderator Danny Rimer asked the panel to describe their biggest mistakes. [...]
If you follow the Seedcamp Blog you will know that applications to participate in startup-school-cum-incubator-cum-fund’ Seedcamp closed twelve days ago and yesterday was Judges Day where the 268 applications was whittled down to the 20 that will be invited to Seedcamp week.
The number of great companies was awesome to see. By definition they were all [...]
Seedcamp follows hot on the heels of OpenCoffee as an initiative from Saul Klein to help develop the startup ecosystem here in Europe.
From the Seedcamp website:
Seedcamp is where Europe’s top young founders can come together in one place.
From securing funding to developing the right network, young entrepreneurs in Europe face challenges in building globally competitive [...]
