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Size doesn’t matter

Mediatech 100: a 13-page report where a selection of weighted criteria included buzz (number of news stories associated with a company) and a size of its management team. Where the advisory panel was asked to judge ‘vision’ and ‘attractiveness’ and VCs had to nominate one other company if they wanted one of their own portfolio [...]

Behind the scenes at FOWA

We will always remember:
MySpace bus: where beers where sponsored by Tactile CRM, Rummble and Everycity and I finally met Paul Carr who’s less of a schmuck than I initially thought.
_nation: a massive queue of screaming spotty teenagers for Diggnation, which we abandoned in order to film our very own redditnation presented by Jake Stride of [...]

Start-ups, sex and drama

I’ve just finished Paul Carr’s Bringing Nothing to the Party. The book followed by a couple of Carr-related blogs. With all this palaver, one would think we’re in the middle of a Hollywood drama. Instead it’s the London start-up scene and Carr’s overcomplicated sex and love life.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s extremely entertaining. Carr might [...]