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What a week to be in London, aggregated from TechCrunch Europe

Sun, 05 Jul 2009 09:04:26 -0500

Well, it’s shaping up to be an awesome week in London this week for tech companies. Here are just a few of the events going on: SUNDAY (today) At 5:00 PM: Traveling Geeks Tweetup: Welcome to London! NESTA and the SYmbian foundation welcoming the Traveling Geeks to London! This is a Tweetup to welcome Robert Scoble, Craig Newmark, [...]

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theStartup Weekend Reading #12, aggregated from theStartup

Sun, 05 Jul 2009 07:00:43 -0500

12th week of theStartup Weekend Reading. Enjoy. If a gorilla is sitting in your space, find a different place to start your startup on Nesheim Online Is Execution More Important than Vision? on TechCrunch Velocity Conference Recap on Nelz’s Blog Ten unconventional wisdoms for funding startups on VentureBeat A Dozen Don’ts for Entrepreneurs on Open Forum Startups: Plan an Exit Strategy Early on Startup Professional The risk/reward confusion on [...]

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Why is #moonfruit trending on Twitter? It’s the rebirth of a startup, aggregated from TechCrunch Europe

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 07:18:58 -0500

It’s not often that Internet companies last 10 years, but Moonfruit in the UK has proved pretty resilient. It survived the dotcom boom the first time round, launching with VC-backing, growing to 65 staff and cutting back to two staff in the space of a couple of years. It’s a wonder why they didn’t exit [...]

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Chocolate break, thanks to Frank, aggregated from BeterZ

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:37:22 -0500

On BeterZ, you can win different sorts of gifts. You can also offer gifts. One of our most prominent members, Frank, won a chocolate box, for us. These were nice little chocolates with liquor inside, the kind of chocolates that spurts when you give a bite. They lasted something like 5 minutes (it was hot and [...]

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Seeding ideas for Seedcamp 2009, aggregated from Seedcamp

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:05:00 -0500

Now that twitter is awash with chatter about the opening of applications for Seedcamp Week ’09, we thought we’d put in our 2c about a few sectors we believe are worthy of startups tackling. As we’re all about seeding, I stress that these are a few thoughts to get you guys talking/working. We encourage and duly welcome the many other crucial problems you are working to solve. Also, just working on these does not take place of having a strong team and convincing us of your ability to execute and deliver a great product or service!

I asked a handful of investors, thinkers, and entrepreneurs what are some critical areas where they can see startups being in the right position to offer solutions and having the capacity to go at it on their own. Here's 3 I'll start with and continue next week.

Marketplaces - this is one area that is actively being invested in by both early and late stage investors and the next evolution is starting to happen. First-time marketplaces like referrals and builders are emerging as the recession puts pressure on cutting costs and moving things to digital as quickly as possible. And older online marketplaces are moving on as well, including social media, real-time search, and other advances that take them to the next stage and eek out ever more efficiences and customer satisfaction. And as I've presented in the past, there's real money to be made here.

Presence and location – There are a myriad of point solutions and so many channels as to confuse the most savvy amongst us. We'd like to see startups tackling the challenge of bringing this into one holistic solution - with presence, device, and location awareness all rolled into one along with the ease of choosing the channel to interact whether it be twitter or sms or facebook.

Identity control management - Again, the challenge here is to bring this all together but we'd like to see more complete solutions around identity theft, privacy, and access control. I worked in M&A 10 years ago and this was still an issue. In all things security, there were too many point solutions and a few software powerhouses that usually just picked off these companies. And integration always proves hard. We'd like to therefore see more complete solutions.

So, if you are a startup and you think you've got some of these challenges cracked, we look forward to reading your applications for Seedcamp Week '09.

I'll be continuing next week with more seeds of thought so I encourage you to comment here or write to us directly at info@seedcamp.com or apply next week with your own killer startup ventures.

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Fisker Karma To Challenge Tesla Model S, aggregated from ArcticStartup

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:00:23 -0500

When talking about car manufacturing, one normally thinks of Germany, Italy, France, Japan and the USA. Finland, on the other hand, comes seldom to one’s mind. That much more interesting it is to see that a plug-in hybrid is build right here in Finland, the Fisker Karma. The Karma is, as Fisker puts it, “a beautiful [...]

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TrustedPlaces one step closer to profitability thanks to LocalPeople, aggregated from TechCrunch Europe

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 07:00:34 -0500

Local reviews startup TrustedPlaces has partnered with Northcliffe Media to power the regional newspaper publisher’s experimental hyperlocal web strategy. News of the deal comes six months after its founders stepped back from speculative sales talks to focus on building revenue and cash flow. LocalPeople beta-launched 20 community sites targeted at small towns and neighbourhoods across south-west [...]

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Goodbye Michael Jackson, aggregated from MisterWong

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 06:28:04 -0500

Every now and then, I’m surprised by what I find on Mister Wong. Some people have great bookmarks which help me to find new websites I might not have otherwise. But today, what surprised me was the tagcloud on the overview page. The tagcloud shows the popular tags being used on Mister Wong for the [...]

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Hoist Lets You Create Your Own Collaboration Tool, aggregated from ArcticStartup

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 05:00:23 -0500

Hoist is one of the many Danish startups we had the pleasure of pitching us at the ArcticEvening Copenhagen last week. Hoist is an on demand project collaboration tool joining the long list of business productivity services such as Basecamp. It was launched in private beta at Reboot conference held last week, where I fortunately managed to [...]

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ArcticEvening Copenhagen – A Full House Of Excitement, aggregated from ArcticStartup

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:04:42 -0500

We had another amazing ArcticEvening event yesterday. This time we were at Copenhagen Denmark gathering local startups together to spread their love and tell the community about their products. The event ended up being on the eve of Reboot conference and needless to say we had wonderful time with many people in town for both [...]

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