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Our first OpenCoffee
July 30th, 2009 Posted 5:01 pm
We went to our first OpenCoffee meetup today. OpenCoffee is a weekly event where entrepreneurs and business people meetup to discuss their companies and network. Today’s London event was held at the Roberts Foyer Engineering Cafe, in University College London. We met a lot of interesting people, including people from:
We had loads of interesting discussions and got good feedback on Notion Learning. We’ll definately be attending again.
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Channel 4 visit
July 21st, 2009 Posted 8:04 pm
The start-up experience keeps bringing us to totally different places.
This time, we had an appointment with my(Dimitri’s) ex-employer, Matt Heiman, who is currently working for Channel 4.
Apart from acquiring more advice and funding leads (4iP) the experience of being inside Channel 4 was the icing on today’s cake.
About the images
Above: The iconic ‘4′ sign made entirely of umbrellas, and each part of it is offset so the perspective is only correct when viewing from a certain angle. It’s part of the Big Art Project and isn’t the first one that’s been made.
Below: In the reception, advertising their various shows and the 4OD online service. Apologies for the blurryness.
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A trip up North
June 26th, 2009 Posted 11:13 pm
One of the most important things we’ve discovered over the past couple of months is the importance of criticism. It’s not just about trying to attack your business idea from every possible angle, it’s about putting yourself right in the firing line so that as many people as possible get to give you feedback. Some other people involved in start-ups we’ve encountered have been protective of their ideas to a fault – they refuse to discuss their idea with anybody.
So, always hungry for more perspectives we found ourselves heading up the M1 to Sheffield to visit Learning Light, a not-for-profit organisation based around e-learning and learning technologies. We gave them an introduction to our system, and then scribbled as many notes as we could while they gave us fantastic feedback: from details of potential competitors right the way through to identifying potential customers.
The feedback is invaluable, so we would like to extend a public thanks to Gillian and David of Learning Light for taking the time to meet with us. Every time we go through this process, the business idea gets refined once again.
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