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London: The fintech needs more fin
This week’s Economist has a very good special report on financial technology (fintech) startups. I jumped on this particular bandwagon last month when I opened a high-risk savings account with Nutmeg,...
View ArticleThe mythical entrepreneur month
If I read another war story about a startup founder sitting in a dimly lit room, with only the soft glow of Sublime Editor on his Mac lighting up his surroundings, working for months on end on a...
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The new Seedcamp intake
Seedcamp just added 8 startups to the “family” of startups they invest in and support so Datasmoothie and the rest of February’s intake are no longer the new kids on the block. The office is buzzing...
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When the incremental looks revolutionary
Surely that’s been done before. What’s so new about that? Yet another location-based social something or other? In startup land, where people constantly (and let’s face it: sometimes incessantly) tell...
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Women as panelists in tech events
The Founders Forum is one of those clubs that annoys me to no end. Note that the club itself doesn’t annoy me, the fact that I’m not a member annoys me. Your company has to be valued at more than...
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Groom them or broom them
The folks at Seedcamp recommended I listen to one of their podcast episodes the other day, Daniel King on the Startup Sales Process & Scaling. People sometimes scoff at sales and salespeople. Even...
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Google Ventures invests in a London children’s book publisher
Two of my favourite industries, technology and book publishing, have suddenly merged in a company based in Hackney here in London called Lost My Name. Lost My Name was founded in 2012 and publishes...
View ArticleFrom the ashes of Nokia rises Realm, a database that runs on 500 million phones
My first mobile phone was a Nokia 3210 which, according to Wikipedia, was one of the most successful mobile phones in history. Nowadays, anyone who is typing “Nokia” into a search engine is probably...
View ArticlePitch deck collection
I came across this via the private Seedcamp Slack channel and it’s been very useful recently. It’s a collection of pitch decks various different companies have used when they have been fundraising....
View ArticleMapping the fortunes of Silicon Valley
The Economist did a great piece on Silicon Valley a couple of weeks ago and along with the article they posted an excellent interactive map on their website. The map shows the geographic location of...
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