All Blog Posts Tagged 'startup' (6)

The VentureBeat blog gives superb advice for anyone pitching their idea, from Jason Cohen, a startup entrepreneur who's been there and done it three times already and now sits on the other side of the table as an Angel investor. The four sins Jason picks out are the same four we see frequently at… Continue

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Not all of us do it for the cash, some of us consider 'The Godfather' way - but ultimately there are a few great people out there in our creative world that give up their time to help and assist startups and young companies without loo… Continue

Image CC Flickr/Steffe As everyone knows starting out isn't just about the money. Money's lovely stuff, but access to expert advice, having a space to ask those seemingly endless business questions, getting a sound c… Continue

All too often I hear about ideas where the success of the project lies in having a large number of users – the usual “and then with all these users it works amazingly like this and that and opens up the potential for so and so”. This is the point where in mid-conversation I frown; I’m not listening to the potential, I’m listening to the mechanisms that get it to the point of providing this potential. This is really a simple thing: a huge following of people can pretty much make an… Continue

Last summer, I spent a few months in London and once happened to go along to a small event for techies called the "Hacker Meetup". It was hosted by Ian Hogarth from Songkick (a London based startup) at their office. A bunch of tech startups and freelance developers came along and chatted, demo'd their projects and then we went for dinner. While this sounds very simple, I was amazed at how productive this time was – I made some really good connections and found everyone around me doing the… Continue

Seeing as how 4iP is (I think) about modes and methods of producing media, I thought I'd throw in here something I've been thinking about for a while - what does a limited company look like in an age of distributed social media? Or, to put it another way, it is now possible (and quite common) to build a company around a disparate bunch of people who are not geographically located in the same place. Contributions to the project come in many different forms. Many social media or social network typ… Continue