You can now watch the live footage of Rose Lewis's presentation from Digital Shoreditch, which contains all sorts of handy information about how startups can successfully raise finance. You can watch Rose here, as well as watch many other talks from the eventful week.
huddled is a site dedicated to business news in the North West. Launched in January 2013, huddled is created by a team of North-West based journalists dedicated to providing up-to-date news relating to local companies and issues that affect businesses in the area. Most recently, huddled interviewed the brains behind Collider12 startup Moment.Us, which you can watch below. http://youtu.be/GSOQVrZhyQI
Moment.Us co-founder Andrew Ko has been interviewed by the Manchester Evening News about his smartphone app, which assesses factors including the location, date, time of day, weather and more, to create custom music playlists.
Here's an excerpt from the piece.
'Ko remembers the 'eureka moment' when he first came up with the concept. He said: “I was walking to class on an overcast, chilly day and I wanted to listen to some downbeat music but I kept having to press 'next' because my iPod was playing all the wrong songs. I thought 'my iPod should know not to play me Christmas songs in March.'
“These days we use our phones every day, including to play music. Our phones know so much about us and our habits. Moment.Us is about tapping in to that knowledge to help understand the person. It creates playlists of songs that feel the same, not just sound the same.”'
To read the full article, click here.
The Collider12 team and startups will be out in full force at this year's Digital Shoreditch. This year the week long show is set to be bigger and better then ever before! We'd love to see you there, so make sure you come and say hello.
Five of the Collider12 startups will be giving a two minute pitch and then taking questions from the audience. The startups are:
Where : Mayor's Parlour, Shoreditch Town Hall - http://www.shoreditchtownhall.org.uk
When: 3:45pm–4:45pm
More info: Check out Lanyrd
Immediately following our session, The Bakery will present a panel of brands and agencies (including Stephen Maher form Maher Bird Associates) on how startups, brands and agencies can work together to get to market quicker.
This day is dedicated to discussing how to raise capital, grow your business and earn more profit. You can expect deep insights for real success, told by remarkable entrepreneurs and funders who have been and done it.
Rose Lewis, one of our co-founders, will be speaking at 2pm about fundraising in these interesting times. Rose believes that:
So come and hear Rose share a few useful hints while will improve the chances of your startup raising finance successfully.
Where : Shoreditch Town Hall - http://www.shoreditchtownhall.org.uk
When: From 2pm
On Tuesday I went to the BIMA (British Interactive Media Association) startup seminar hosted at Google Campus, in collaboration with Rackspace. The panel was a great mix of large companies and startups, who all have experience relevant to those starting up today. The panel of speakers included John Webb from Rackspace, Benjamin Southworth, deputy CEO of Tech City, Joe Stepniewski founder of Skimlinks, Damian Routley the CEO of Glow, Jean-Michel Deligny of Go4Venture, Alex Wood, the editor or Tech City News, Drew Benvie founder of new comms agency Battenhall, and the chair Justin Pearse of Bite. However, it was rather hard to ignore that all eight members of the panel were male, and indeed, so was everyone who spoke on stage, including the welcome speech from BIMA and the closing remarks from Rackspace. This was picked up on Twitter Candace Kuss and Karen Barber, and then mentioned at the very end of the session by Craig Le Grice, the Executive Committee Member of BIMA.
I got in touch with Craig who said that "Benjamin Southworth and Joe Stepniewski were fantastic additions to our panel - but both were in place of their respective female CEOs (Joanna Shields, CEO at TCIO and Alicia Navarro, CEO at Skimlinks) who were invited first but unfortunately could not attend due to diary commitments."
Craig went on to say that "Speaking personally, I'm a huge advocate of - and fighter for - equality in our industry. I work with a number of startups and actively encourage diversity and the building of companies based on talent, regardless of gender, race, sexuality etc. I welcome the day when no woman attends a technology or digital focused event and feels she's at a boy's club."
This situation is clearly not ideal, especially as there are more than enough women who could at least match the experience on the panel. However, it is positive that people are realising that an all male panel is no longer neccessary or acceptable, and hopefully, these all male events will become a thing of the past. In the mean time, check out these future BIMA events and get involved in the discussion.
