[Disclosure: I attended in my role as Flagship Initiative Adviser for Knowledge West, we have the Knowledge West Enterprise Awards, which brings together competitors from the 6 University Business Plan competitions in the area. However, I’m not on that judging panel, nor this one, and my views here are not those of Knowledge West.] After… Continue reading What’s the BizIdea?
Category: Bristol
The smell of success (its not just the coffee roast)
Uploaded on March 4, 2007 by NguyenDai Just had an email from Craig at Podchains Ltd that, having met Mark from OK-Cool on Tues at OpenCoffee they went for a follow-up meeting and have now “struck up a working relationship”. I think we can chalk that up as the first deal of this OpenCoffee series!… Continue reading The smell of success (its not just the coffee roast)
OpenCoffee Bristol keeps growing
Uploaded on January 7, 2008 by wabberjocky Open Coffee continues to grow in Bristol with more new faces plus a good number of ‘regulars’. There was a definite mobile-video thing going on (at least around the conversations I heard). Matt Thurling from Science.TV (a video sharing community dedicated to science communication) was a new face… Continue reading OpenCoffee Bristol keeps growing
Bristol Design Festival
Just back from the opening of the Bristol Design Festival down in the old Fire Station. Don’t let the website put you off (it’s a bit Flash heavy and not very up to date). The festival is getting underway with a wide range of product and concept designs, including the ever popular Grafikea. Upstairs is… Continue reading Bristol Design Festival
OpenCoffee Club Bristol
Uploaded by Lutz-R. Frank on 02 Aug 07. The reason this post is a bit late is I spent most of yesterday evening setting up a Facebook group for OpenCoffee Club Bristol (and we already have 5 members, cheers), posting the next four dates (17 June, 1 & 15 & 29 July and 5 August),… Continue reading OpenCoffee Club Bristol
Open Coffee good in Bristol
Uploaded by suresh_gundappa on 17 Aug 06, 9.27AM BST. The nominal theme for this morning’s Open Coffee was ‘articulating your message’, or the art of the elevator pitch. Without wishing to do anyone (including myself) out of a job – go to this blog post and read it. Actually might as well read the whole… Continue reading Open Coffee good in Bristol
Open Coffee launch details
I mentioned earlier on Twitter that I was hoping to confirm some additional support for Open Coffee, well Starbucks are getting behind us and offering free coffee, free muffins and free WiFi to attendees of Open Coffee at 9am Tuesday, 6 May. We’ll be downstairs at the Starbucks on Park Street (map). Kick off will… Continue reading Open Coffee launch details
Venue announced for Open Coffee Bristol
Great news; Open Coffee has a home. We’ll be meeting downstairs in the Starbucks on Park St (picture to the right should take you to the Google map unless I’ve mangled the html {quite possible}). Check out the Upcoming group for details; or turn up from around 9am. At the moment there are four coffee’s… Continue reading Venue announced for Open Coffee Bristol
(re)Open(ed) Coffee
6 May 2008, at the moment this is looking good for the relaunch of Open Coffee in Bristol. I’m still waiting on confirmation for a venue (and some free coffee as part of the deal) but it’ll be central Bristol. I’ve decided on a morning mainly because the focus is on networking around business development… Continue reading (re)Open(ed) Coffee
Shifting sands of conversation
Normally I’d be sat here writing up tonight’s event in the Watershed featuring the Pervasive Media Sandbox mid-term report / presentation thing. But I’ve already done that on Twitter. In fact there were at least 2 others twittering (@iamdanw & @sammachin) and I suspect a few others as well. The inimitable Scoble has noted that… Continue reading Shifting sands of conversation