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Education shaped & Bristol Fashion

Disclosure: This was originally published on TechCrunch UK, I’ve made some edits at the end in response to comment on TC, Underscore, Twitter etc. Its not all stovepipe hats and clay dogs in Bristol, these days its more location aware gaming, mobile media and building businesses. As a relative newcomer to the city (5yrs and… Continue reading Education shaped & Bristol Fashion

OpenCoffee Bristol

Really good turn out at this morning’s Open Coffee with plenty of new faces and old friends. Sam Machin and Tom O’Neil both back after recent breaks, Sam even took time out from his Honeymoon to find an incubation centre in Dublin next to the Guinness factory so he could report back to us, that’s… Continue reading OpenCoffee Bristol

Carrotmob Bristol an update

Well a lot has been happening and there are a couple of conversation threads so I thought I’d put up a quick ‘story so far…’ Craig Hellen (Pod Chains) brought up Carrotmob at the OpenCoffee meeting on 1 July. We were talking about Seedcamp and various ideas for supporting innovative new businesses across the South… Continue reading Carrotmob Bristol an update

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

Gordon Bennett Gordon Morris!

I mentioned in an earlier post how a client was unsure of my experience and background, and that the jbsh website didn’t communicate effectively and I lost the job. Those of you on the RSS feed won’t have noticed but this site now has a static front page with mini-biographies of me and Sam, the… Continue reading Gordon Bennett Gordon Morris!

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Celebrating failure

Disclosure: As well as Managing Partner of jbsh LLP (the business behind this blog) I also work part time for the University of the West of England on the Knowledge West project managing their QuickMark® service.] Today was an important day for jbsh, I gave our first unsuccessful pitch. Obviously in writing research grant applications… Continue reading Celebrating failure