Category: Entrepreneur

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

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

Geeks & investors, are they oil & water? Lets mix it up a bit…

There’re a ton of networking events taking place in Bristol, but there appears to be a gap around the business of doing business in the digital media / interactive technologies / software development type area. Simon Bunker launched Open Coffee Bristol almost a year ago but it never really achieved critical mass and became a… Continue reading Geeks & investors, are they oil & water? Lets mix it up a bit…

Lessons in Entrepreneurial Leadership

Last night was spent up in Bristol University‘s Chemistry lecture room courtesy of Bristol Enterprise Network (this evening chaired by Prof Stephen Hagan, Director of the University of the West of England‘s Research, Business and Innovation group). The delegate list was rather larger than the turn out, but there were still plenty of entrepreneurs and… Continue reading Lessons in Entrepreneurial Leadership

Hackathon Bristol

At Open Coffee the other night, after bemoning the lack of access to pre-seed capital and the unlikelyness of the banks to lend Simon and me £1m to run our own venture fund, the topic turned to the usual mix of mobile, hacking and start-ups. Somewhere between the beers, Dan proposed a hackathon in Bristol!… Continue reading Hackathon Bristol

Wither animation on the web?

Last night was the launch of SkillSwap Gloucestershire, hosted by Gloucestershire Media Group. Based on the same successful formula as Brighton and Bristol, the evening brought together creative media types, digital tech types and a couple enterprising business types. The venue was kept nicely informal at the Beehive in Cheltenham and expertise was provided by… Continue reading Wither animation on the web?

Going beyond – ‘teach a man to fish’

(Disclosure; I’m working with a Heliotrope, on their new product, Prelude, that we think addresses some of the challenges that Akhtar discussed relating to building individual, group and community understanding.) I was up in London on Monday evening at the SMARTLab at an invited talk by Dr Akhtar Badshah – Senior Director, Global Community Affairs,… Continue reading Going beyond – ‘teach a man to fish’

We are the network

With all the furore at the moment over Facebook, Scoble and Plaxo, OpenSocial, data-portability, etc. it was refreshing to get an email from Nick at NDK Group asking to hook up and do some old-fashioned linking between our sites. Turns out he popped his name into Google and a post I wrote a few months… Continue reading We are the network

More from the Sandbox

I spent yesterday at the launch of the Sandbox, the upside there were lots of people in Waterside 3, possibly drawn by the £9k commissioning offer (but then only 24 admitted to having an idea to pitch and only 14 actually did). Ed Mitchell facilitated and did an excellent, if noisy job with various horns,… Continue reading More from the Sandbox