The event had a combination of great entrepreneurs as well as high calibre Investors, I would highly recommend this event if you are looking at getting an understanding of how start-up companies have raised money and exited successfully.
M.I.A. Bad Girls. Best Rap Video ever. Watch loud & in HD. (If you are watching on mobile or an iPad, tough.)
Turns out the best rap video ever made was filmed in Morocco, not LA or Florida. And two other things that you might not expect – she is a Tamil Sri Lankan.
Best Pole Dance ever. This is safe for work (unless you work at Taliban HQ). It will probably make you feel totally inadequate.
Even though I have good Polish friends, Pole Dancing isn’t my thing but that is Olympic standard athleticism.
Extreme formation flying nanorotor display team.
20 of these things flying in tight formation is scary enough… The singularity is one step closer.
What a small world etc. Thanks to the Internet and Skype for making it trivial to have a meeting with someone on the other side of the world without a moment’s thought.
This was a particularly pleasant conversation with a lovely fellow. His Dad is quite a nice guy too…
Facebook is an amazing business. It will be talked about and analysed to death over the next few months.
This is the Wordle of the raw text file of the S1 filing.
The SEC’s site went down under the sheer weight of journalists and pundits wanting to know how much Mark Zuckerberg earns and is worth (not a huge amount as it turns out though most of his salary is spent on private jets and a huge amount – $28billion odd if the valuation on IPO is $100billion). They could have done with calling Rackspace to solve that one but we were struck by the amount of markup in an S1 – so much that you can’t even see Facebook…
If you missed Eric Ries when he was talking about The Lean Startup in London recently, or if you were there and want to refresh your memory, you can watch almost the whole proceedings here (apart from the bit where the sound went dead for 2 minutes before a speaker blew up!). We have split the video into two parts. The first part is Eric’s presentation. Part two is the question and answer session and the bit where we invite people down from the audience to answer their own questions (sic).
MiM2012, March 22nd is a one day forum in London for big companies who are literally mobilising – ITV, FT, Telegraph, RBS, RIM, LivingSocial, Google, Tesco and others. You get to meet investors and some of the best mobile companies presenting to compete for the second MiM Award. EARLY BIRD rate 1 available to 6th February.
Now, grab a coffee, or better yet, a lovely pint of London Pride, and enjoy!
CEO Tales: Eric Ries, The Lean Startup in London – the ‘Justin Bieber of startups’ talks.
CEO Tales: Eric Ries, The Lean Startup in London – Questions, answers and some coaching.
And some post event crowd reaction…
If you want to see some of the other feedback from this session, some of the press write ups and blogs are here. Let us know if we missed any.
MiM2012, March 22nd is a one day forum in London for big companies who are literally mobilising – ITV, FT, Telegraph, RBS, RIM, LivingSocial, Google, Tesco and others. You get to meet investors and some of the best mobile companies presenting to compete for the second MiM Award. EARLY BIRD rate 1 available to 6th February.
Watch Barry Houlihan (Mobile Interactive Group) from MiM 2011 explaining how Sky uses mobile to engage viewers, build relationships and monetise them. Barry also shows the evolution of Big Brother, from the binary experience of SMS voting to a much richer, more profitable experience (as Davina McCall explains – just watch the video to the end!).
Join us at the forthcoming MiM 2012, 22nd March, London for intelligent debate and quality networking with the most influential people in mobile. We will be joined by Ann Cook, Controller of Interactivity and Managing Director, ITL – who will share insights about how content owners are profiting from mobile and reveal where the media industry can learn from others.
If you are a content owner and want to find out how to build sustainable, profitable relationships with your audience, then you need to be at the MiM 2012. If you come and don’t feel you get value, we’ll refund the price of your ticket – that’s how we roll.
Ann will be joined by senior executives from The Telegraph Media Group, RBS, RIM, LivingSocial, Google, Tesco and others who are making mobile happen in their businesses. They have promised to share stories of success, failure and industry insight in an informal, free of corporate-nonsense environment. MiM 2012 isn’t just about listening to others – it’s about the quality delegates you meet on the day. If you haven’t been to a BLN event before click here to see what others say.
Astia seems to run a pretty decent programme for entrepreneurs and businesses across the globe and their European activity is headed up by the formidable Simone Brummelhuis who has probably done as much as anyone in Europe to support the cause of that rare beast, the female founder.
We’re always happy to spread the word…
About the Programme The Entrepreneur Programme is a unique resource for success – a transformative programme designed by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs who want to become dominant players in their sectors.
Format 6-day workshop and a 2-month programme of custom mentoring with the opportunity to tap into Astia’s global network of angels, VCs, corporations, and entrepreneurs that is Astia. (more…)
Running events is a stupid, stressful business and quite a lot of the time I don’t know why we do it. I tell myself we do it because we can play a part is sharing great ideas that help people run better businesses and have a better life in the process.
We just got this short compilation video of some of the people who came to the BLN CEO Tales event with Eric Ries, The Lean Startup in London. It reminded me that what we are doing is worthwhile. Thank you!
If you know any of the people in the video, please let us know in the comments so we can credit you.
This is probably a really good time to register here so you are the first to hear about our other events. We are just about to announce something in Cambridge on 20th February that might have a similarly profound effect on your life…
Three things caught my attention in the news this week that made me think.
Apple made masses of money. (Hat tip every single person on Twitter. Every tech blog in the world. Really, really well done for spotting that).
Patagonia, the outdoor clothing company becomes one of California’s first Benefit Corporations. (Hat Tip the excellent and occasionally hirsute Mike McDerment of Freshbooks).
