Thank you Ian Clifford, of YouRock for this rather brilliant charter. It made us very happy to think that you noticed what we try to do every time we put something together.

We are at Business of Software Conference Europe for the next couple of days. Follow along here.

Register for a 2 for 1 startup ticket for Business of Software Conference Europe here before 1st June

There are any number of events, conferences, networking groups where you can meet fellow startups and share experience. There are also lots of events where the stage is packed with celebrity speakers, panels, sponsors, people are in fancy dress and everyone has to be on ‘broadcast mode’.

Business of Software Conference is different.

Someone pointed out recently that no matter how many steps and lengths that you go to to keep your email secure and away from the threat of corporate snooping and worse by free email providers, it doesn’t really matter because any email correspondence that you have is likely to be with people that use gmail or similar solutions and so the correspondent’s email will be in the system regardless of what you have done to protect yourself.

A rather wonderful, visual, rant about business plans from Neil Davidson. If you are thinking about writing one, this gets to the heart or what you have to think about. It takes minutes to read.

JP Rangaswami closed IoT14 with this powerful, thoughtful vision of how customers will react to the IoT and why some of the popular concerns on IoT are missing the point.

If you have decided to take a shot at Lightning Talk greatness, the submission process is here. If you’re still dithering, here is some advice from the horse’s mouth: the Lightning Talk alumni.

But be quick: the deadline for submissions is 20th May.