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TechHub Members Drinks
Last night I went to my first TechHub Members Drinks event. I’ve been away for a few months, opening our office in Reykjavík among other things, and much has changed since I was last at the Hub. For...
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Fred Destin from Atlas Venture speaks at TechHub
©TechHub Fred Destin, partner at Atlas Venture which has companies such as Daily Motion, Zoopla and Seatwave in its portfolio, gave a talk at TechHub today (I told you TechHub was doing lots of quality...
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More than four years after launching, Open Coffee is still going strong
Today at the farmer's market in Bloomsbury, next to the Open Coffee venue Every week in the heart of Bloomsbury, London, entrepreneurs, investors, techies and other like minded people meet up at a café...
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Glug and the Roundabout Brewery launch in London’s answer to Silicon Valley
Gluggers chatting in Cargo's beer garden On one hand it is the hip and cool hub for both the technological and creative side of the UK’s digital industry, the birthplace of Last.fm, TechHub and...
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Silicon Roundabout Social Club
Mysterious looking Google-sponsored cocktails, VCs from top-tier funds, entrepreneurs ranging from the almost-started to the Y-combinator graduated to the fully VC funded, representatives from France...
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London’s Tech City woos European entrepreneurs
“The British Ambassador Ian Whitting requests the pleasure of the company of Geir Freysson for dinner,” stated a letter that dropped into our mailbox a few months ago. Stapled to the invitation to meet...
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An Icelandic startup using London’s Tech City as a launchpad – my talk at the...
I had the pleasure of being invited to give a talk to a selection of some of the most exciting technology companies in Belgium and Luxembourg at the British Embassy in Brussels along with Richard...
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Startup ecosystems in London vs San Francisco – data from CrunchBase
Me posting a self-photo to our HipChat development channel from the Google Campus in October 2012. Super productive. This week’s Economist has an article, “Start Me Up“, on the progress made by...
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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,...
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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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