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For 21C Malone, #whatsnext?
So the news is out about John, Andy and Betaworks and you know it's real inside baseball when its number 1 on Hacker News :)
These guys are two of the people I've worked most closely with in the last few years and some of my favourite people in the industry and now they will be playing in different bands. It seems like much of the focus so far, has been on Andy going to USV but given I've know John for much longer, I thought I'd give my two cents on that part of the journey.
I think I first met John or as he’s now know - @borthwick - in 1996 in a tiny office in Cambridge, MA. We were talking about how Firefly and TotalNewYork could work together. He was building the bones of a distributed network of local content sites and we were building (I think!) a distributed identity network to personalize web applications.
We must have clicked, because this was the first of many conversations on pretty much the same theme we had in many different guises over the next 16 years.
While John stayed East and sold his company to AOL, where he worked with Ted Leonsis to buy and build out communications and media services like ICQ, WinAmp, Spinner and AOL Greenhouse, the Firefly team went West. We were locked up in the ivory towers of Redmond for two years trying to build out an identity based web platform, which core communications services (Hotmail and Messenger) could plug into as well as any apps Microsoft were building (Expedia, Sidewalk, Finance etc). We really wanted to work with John and AOL to federate the network, but we were Explorer and soon John became Netscape - any shared vision we had of what data driven web might look like went by the wayside.
When I left Seattle in 1999 and moved to New York to work on accelerator 1.0 with my partner Upendra (who went on to work with John at AOLTW) - the first crew we reconnected with and sought out were John, Scott Heiferman, Seth Goldstein, Steven Johnson and Clay Shirky.
This was (is) an amazing group - in fact its always a touch awesome to see what they’ve all done in the last 10 years, but John was always a little different. Entrepreneurial - check. Big thinker - check. Great seed investor - check (will also be thankful for John’s intro to Pyra Labs). Working in a nimble start-up environment - NFW!
Either John was in training to be Rupert Murdoch or John Malone, or he was mad. While the rest of us were dabbling in startups, he was fully embedded inside an AOL which was uncomfortably merging with Time Warner and getting pretty good at playing macro-political chess with Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and News Corp. (I had a brief window into this when I was at Skype talking with John about how we could work with AIM).
In fact what I think he was doing, was trying to see how far you could push the innovation model inside a huge company. He wanted to see whether you could actually leverage this amazing set of assets to do something transformational. He and his little team of rockstars (including my now friends Carter and Josh) were figuring out if they could build a platform with the same principles of federated identity we’d discussed 6 years before in Cambridge to deliver personalized, interactive applications which could leverage the awesome distribution power of wires (ISP and cable), the social distribution power of contacts (AIM and ICQ) and combine it all with the greatest content kingdom on the planet (Warner, HBO and Time). Why not? It had to be worth a shot, in fact I was momentarily tempted to join him on this crazy mission!
But all good things come to an end - we knew that in the end, John would get frustrated and take the leap full time to start-up land. So in around 2007 after John had helped Scott Heiferman sell Fotolog and left Time Warner, he took a break with his family and passed through London. I was leaving Skype and about to focus more on investing with TAG and Index - so again we talked about #whatsnext.
We discussed the low cost of company building; we talked about new investment models; but as always, we drifted back to platforms and the components you would need for building and testing applications. John energized me to develop the Seedcamp idea, inspired by what Paul Grahams was doing at YCombinator and I listened as he outlined his first drafts of what would become the first few chapters of Betaworks.
I remember my first experience of John’s Betaworks vision. I think it was his first Betaday. There must have been around 25 people: Scott Heiferman talking about his amazing Meetup.com and building businesses which lasted decades (this was the business in 2002 gave me my faith back in the web), folks like David Karp (just starting) and hackers fresh out of YC roaming around. But the stand out for me was an amazing guy who John knew from AOL and Wesleyan (his college) - Andy Weissman - who was thinking about the next version of venture. As usual with John this was a loosely federated network, but he clearly knew which way it was going and although his foresight on Tumblr was not clear to me then (more fool me!), Andy was an obvious gem.
In a way Betaworks gave me my first real opportunity to work with John on a regular basis and my first ever occasion to work with Andy. Between TAG and Betaworks we ended up doing a lot together. We co-invested in Daylife, Songkick, Snaptalent and Tipjoy. We backed Betaworks projects like Bitly and with Index, Chartbeat. But where we definitely had the most fun (and arguments!) was in building companies together with Iain at TweetDeck and Mario at Twitterfeed. One of the most energizing few days I’ve had in years was when John was talking to me about us working with him and Iain at TweetDeck - rolling through our lessons from the browser-wars and plotting how to make clients more social and sticky.
This is a really exciting new chapter and the timing is typically spot on, because in the last 4 years Andy and John in startup parlance have “killed it”: Summize, TweetDeck, SocialFlow, Bitly, Chartbeat and on. They are at the top of their game. They have turned whiteboard sketches into products; products into businesses and invested in some of the hottest startups (Tumblr, GroupMe, Kickstarter) in the last 5 years - all the time helping to re-energize the NYC startup scene, creating an amazing space to work, be a landing pad for Seedcamp and generally just be great people.
I have to say, one of my great professional guilty pleasures in the last 4 years has been getting to know and work with Andy. He’s just a total pleasure: smart, laid back, totally passionate, seriously into his music and although he comes across as the most amiable, reasonable New Yorker you will ever meet, the man is no pushover. I am thrilled for him, Fred, Albert and Brad - what a quartet that will be and I can’t wait to do more with all of them.
For John, the big question is always #whatsnext?
I’d say that the rehearsals at TotalNewYork, AOL and Time Warner will end up leading to a very interesting performance. As the media industry deconstructs new entities will emerge and take the place of the old ones. Yahoo and other first generation web media companies are deconstructing before our eyes. But if the future of media continues to riff around the combination of big data, social distribution and light-weight applications, my sense is that the brand, skills, assets and capital base that John has bootstrapped at Betaworks sets him up pretty well to figure out what the Malone or Murdoch of the 21st century looks like.
Is it possible that a small agile company that builds and invests -- a digitally native Liberty Media could emerge? That’s the bet that I think John is taking. I really hope I still get to take part in the next 16 years of the conversation, its for sure going to be an interesting ride :)
These guys are two of the people I've worked most closely with in the last few years and some of my favourite people in the industry and now they will be playing in different bands. It seems like much of the focus so far, has been on Andy going to USV but given I've know John for much longer, I thought I'd give my two cents on that part of the journey.
I think I first met John or as he’s now know - @borthwick - in 1996 in a tiny office in Cambridge, MA. We were talking about how Firefly and TotalNewYork could work together. He was building the bones of a distributed network of local content sites and we were building (I think!) a distributed identity network to personalize web applications.
We must have clicked, because this was the first of many conversations on pretty much the same theme we had in many different guises over the next 16 years.
While John stayed East and sold his company to AOL, where he worked with Ted Leonsis to buy and build out communications and media services like ICQ, WinAmp, Spinner and AOL Greenhouse, the Firefly team went West. We were locked up in the ivory towers of Redmond for two years trying to build out an identity based web platform, which core communications services (Hotmail and Messenger) could plug into as well as any apps Microsoft were building (Expedia, Sidewalk, Finance etc). We really wanted to work with John and AOL to federate the network, but we were Explorer and soon John became Netscape - any shared vision we had of what data driven web might look like went by the wayside.
When I left Seattle in 1999 and moved to New York to work on accelerator 1.0 with my partner Upendra (who went on to work with John at AOLTW) - the first crew we reconnected with and sought out were John, Scott Heiferman, Seth Goldstein, Steven Johnson and Clay Shirky.
This was (is) an amazing group - in fact its always a touch awesome to see what they’ve all done in the last 10 years, but John was always a little different. Entrepreneurial - check. Big thinker - check. Great seed investor - check (will also be thankful for John’s intro to Pyra Labs). Working in a nimble start-up environment - NFW!
Either John was in training to be Rupert Murdoch or John Malone, or he was mad. While the rest of us were dabbling in startups, he was fully embedded inside an AOL which was uncomfortably merging with Time Warner and getting pretty good at playing macro-political chess with Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and News Corp. (I had a brief window into this when I was at Skype talking with John about how we could work with AIM).
In fact what I think he was doing, was trying to see how far you could push the innovation model inside a huge company. He wanted to see whether you could actually leverage this amazing set of assets to do something transformational. He and his little team of rockstars (including my now friends Carter and Josh) were figuring out if they could build a platform with the same principles of federated identity we’d discussed 6 years before in Cambridge to deliver personalized, interactive applications which could leverage the awesome distribution power of wires (ISP and cable), the social distribution power of contacts (AIM and ICQ) and combine it all with the greatest content kingdom on the planet (Warner, HBO and Time). Why not? It had to be worth a shot, in fact I was momentarily tempted to join him on this crazy mission!
But all good things come to an end - we knew that in the end, John would get frustrated and take the leap full time to start-up land. So in around 2007 after John had helped Scott Heiferman sell Fotolog and left Time Warner, he took a break with his family and passed through London. I was leaving Skype and about to focus more on investing with TAG and Index - so again we talked about #whatsnext.
We discussed the low cost of company building; we talked about new investment models; but as always, we drifted back to platforms and the components you would need for building and testing applications. John energized me to develop the Seedcamp idea, inspired by what Paul Grahams was doing at YCombinator and I listened as he outlined his first drafts of what would become the first few chapters of Betaworks.
I remember my first experience of John’s Betaworks vision. I think it was his first Betaday. There must have been around 25 people: Scott Heiferman talking about his amazing Meetup.com and building businesses which lasted decades (this was the business in 2002 gave me my faith back in the web), folks like David Karp (just starting) and hackers fresh out of YC roaming around. But the stand out for me was an amazing guy who John knew from AOL and Wesleyan (his college) - Andy Weissman - who was thinking about the next version of venture. As usual with John this was a loosely federated network, but he clearly knew which way it was going and although his foresight on Tumblr was not clear to me then (more fool me!), Andy was an obvious gem.
In a way Betaworks gave me my first real opportunity to work with John on a regular basis and my first ever occasion to work with Andy. Between TAG and Betaworks we ended up doing a lot together. We co-invested in Daylife, Songkick, Snaptalent and Tipjoy. We backed Betaworks projects like Bitly and with Index, Chartbeat. But where we definitely had the most fun (and arguments!) was in building companies together with Iain at TweetDeck and Mario at Twitterfeed. One of the most energizing few days I’ve had in years was when John was talking to me about us working with him and Iain at TweetDeck - rolling through our lessons from the browser-wars and plotting how to make clients more social and sticky.
This is a really exciting new chapter and the timing is typically spot on, because in the last 4 years Andy and John in startup parlance have “killed it”: Summize, TweetDeck, SocialFlow, Bitly, Chartbeat and on. They are at the top of their game. They have turned whiteboard sketches into products; products into businesses and invested in some of the hottest startups (Tumblr, GroupMe, Kickstarter) in the last 5 years - all the time helping to re-energize the NYC startup scene, creating an amazing space to work, be a landing pad for Seedcamp and generally just be great people.
I have to say, one of my great professional guilty pleasures in the last 4 years has been getting to know and work with Andy. He’s just a total pleasure: smart, laid back, totally passionate, seriously into his music and although he comes across as the most amiable, reasonable New Yorker you will ever meet, the man is no pushover. I am thrilled for him, Fred, Albert and Brad - what a quartet that will be and I can’t wait to do more with all of them.
For John, the big question is always #whatsnext?
I’d say that the rehearsals at TotalNewYork, AOL and Time Warner will end up leading to a very interesting performance. As the media industry deconstructs new entities will emerge and take the place of the old ones. Yahoo and other first generation web media companies are deconstructing before our eyes. But if the future of media continues to riff around the combination of big data, social distribution and light-weight applications, my sense is that the brand, skills, assets and capital base that John has bootstrapped at Betaworks sets him up pretty well to figure out what the Malone or Murdoch of the 21st century looks like.
Is it possible that a small agile company that builds and invests -- a digitally native Liberty Media could emerge? That’s the bet that I think John is taking. I really hope I still get to take part in the next 16 years of the conversation, its for sure going to be an interesting ride :)
September 13 2011
Some highlights from Seedcamp Week 2011
The team of Reshma, Carlos, Phil and Kirsen did an amazing job - and the teams were pretty awesome as well ;)
- Daily Video Highlights:
- Day 1 Founders - (Yandex) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnRBUCCWTE4
- Day 2 Product - (Mozilla, Soundcloud etc) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1TJ_TZ7pK8&feature=related
- Day 3 Growth - (FON, McClure) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ygYMB58FO8&feature=related
- Day 4 Demo Day - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xffj0TcXUf0&feature=related
- Some of the news coverage:
- Techcrunch: http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/08/seedcamp-expands-adds-e2-million-to-its-coffers-partners-with-500-startups-angellist/
- Forbes: http://www.forbes.com/sites/parmyolson/2011/09/08/tech-startups-get-tough-love-at-bootcamp/ and http://www.forbes.com/sites/parmyolson/2011/09/09/y-combinator-challenged-by-growing-rival-seedcamp/
- WSJ: http://blogs.wsj.com/tech-europe/2011/09/08/seedcamp-strengthens-its-core/?mod=google_news_blog
- Wired: http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-09/08/seedcamp-announcements
- GigaOm: http://gigaom.com/2011/09/08/can-seedcamp-join-the-ivy-league-of-startup-schools/
- NextWeb: http://thenextweb.com/eu/2011/09/08/seedcamp-partners-with-500-startups-and-angellist-aims-for-the-startup-program-ivy-league/ andhttp://thenextweb.com/eu/2011/09/09/10-startups-to-watch-from-seedcamp-week-2011/
- HackerNews: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2978676
- BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-14808977
- Seedcamp announcements:
- Teams: http://www.seedcamp.com/2011/09/seedcamp-week-breaking-records-yet-again.html
- New partnerships: http://www.seedcamp.com/2011/09/seedcamp-partners-experts-and-angels.html
- New advisors & investors: http://www.seedcamp.com/2011/09/our-new-advisory-board-and-investors.html
- New corporate relationships: http://www.seedcamp.com/2011/09/seedcamp-founders-pack-sponsors-and-seedhack.html
- Investors at Demo Day: http://www.seedcamp.com/2011/09/top-20-seedcamp-teams-present-at-demo-day.html
May 26 2011
Tweetdeck: FT for the Social Web
Congrats to Iain along with Tom, Reza, Sol (Peer), Sam and the rest of the Tweetdeck team on the sale to Twitter.
It feels like a long journey from the "you're going to love this" email sent by John Borthwick in Jan 2009 introducing me to Tweetdeck with an offer for Betaworks and TAG to work together to help support Iain in building out Tweetdeck in London.
When we met Iain, he was a one man band, based in the tech mecca of Tonbridge Wells. But as a lone developer he had created some real magic. Tweetdeck was making signal out of Twitter's noise with a simple but very powerful UX innovation - columns. This insight had already made Tweetdeck the leading desktop client for Twitter and its stayed there.
Tweetdeck always had the most engaged users on Twitter: most tweets per user, most followers per user and compared to traditional media, a massive daily active user base spending hours within the application. We used to talk about Tweetdeck as the "FT for the social web" - the place to access, engage and ultimately monetize the most active, connected and influential users on Twitter - and therefore in social media. I really believe that along with Iain and his team, Twitter have the potential to do amazing things with this asset - done well, this could have as much of a transformative impact for Twitter as Summize.
It has been a total blast working with Iain - he is a superb product leader and I will cherish our jam sessions. But it was also cool to watch Iain create a team and go from being alone, to adding the firepower of the young, but superb Peer team (a small TAG investment) and then with Sam and the leadership and support of the awesome John and Andy at Betaworks, building a true NY-LON organization.
As the UK government tries to build a narrative in East London about the emerging tech cluster in Shoreditch, Tweetdeck and Iain are a great case study: housed at Moo; shared workspace with Amee, Dopplr, Groupspaces, Lightbox and SparkPR; bootstrapped with Skype (Taavet, Nicola, Priidu, Joonathan) and Last.fm (Toby) alumni -- and acquired by a US tech titan building out a presence in London :)
Ok, so the story doesn't always end that way - or have to.
Maybe one day European tech, media and communications companies will have the vision and the ambition to do some of the buying themselves. But for now, London can have a day in the sun and here's to seeing Tweetdeck help Twitter develop an even more powerful offering for the power users engaged in influencing the growth and evolution of the social web.
The journey has just begun, it was a pleasure for me and Robin to be a small part of it, stay tuned for much more from Iain and his team.
It feels like a long journey from the "you're going to love this" email sent by John Borthwick in Jan 2009 introducing me to Tweetdeck with an offer for Betaworks and TAG to work together to help support Iain in building out Tweetdeck in London.
When we met Iain, he was a one man band, based in the tech mecca of Tonbridge Wells. But as a lone developer he had created some real magic. Tweetdeck was making signal out of Twitter's noise with a simple but very powerful UX innovation - columns. This insight had already made Tweetdeck the leading desktop client for Twitter and its stayed there.
Tweetdeck always had the most engaged users on Twitter: most tweets per user, most followers per user and compared to traditional media, a massive daily active user base spending hours within the application. We used to talk about Tweetdeck as the "FT for the social web" - the place to access, engage and ultimately monetize the most active, connected and influential users on Twitter - and therefore in social media. I really believe that along with Iain and his team, Twitter have the potential to do amazing things with this asset - done well, this could have as much of a transformative impact for Twitter as Summize.
It has been a total blast working with Iain - he is a superb product leader and I will cherish our jam sessions. But it was also cool to watch Iain create a team and go from being alone, to adding the firepower of the young, but superb Peer team (a small TAG investment) and then with Sam and the leadership and support of the awesome John and Andy at Betaworks, building a true NY-LON organization.
As the UK government tries to build a narrative in East London about the emerging tech cluster in Shoreditch, Tweetdeck and Iain are a great case study: housed at Moo; shared workspace with Amee, Dopplr, Groupspaces, Lightbox and SparkPR; bootstrapped with Skype (Taavet, Nicola, Priidu, Joonathan) and Last.fm (Toby) alumni -- and acquired by a US tech titan building out a presence in London :)
Ok, so the story doesn't always end that way - or have to.
Maybe one day European tech, media and communications companies will have the vision and the ambition to do some of the buying themselves. But for now, London can have a day in the sun and here's to seeing Tweetdeck help Twitter develop an even more powerful offering for the power users engaged in influencing the growth and evolution of the social web.
The journey has just begun, it was a pleasure for me and Robin to be a small part of it, stay tuned for much more from Iain and his team.
January 25 2011
Inside the Music Industry
Really enjoyed the 48 hours I spent at my first MIDEM.
It was fascinating to be inside the music industry for a few days, meet really interesting people and see how the landscape is changing.
I really learned a lot talking to smart people like Vince Bannon and Ted Cohen who have seen every shade of the industry in the last 20 years, Denzyl Feigelson who has helped Steve Jobs re-architect the industry with iTunes and Mat from Metric who is creating a new way for bands to get born and built in the digital age. I also met some really cool companies like Echonest, Topspin, etc
At Index, having invested in Listen.com (Rhapsody) and Last.fm (CBS), we continued to invest in music - focussing mainly on two themes around how fans experience and enjoy music:
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It was fascinating to be inside the music industry for a few days, meet really interesting people and see how the landscape is changing.
I really learned a lot talking to smart people like Vince Bannon and Ted Cohen who have seen every shade of the industry in the last 20 years, Denzyl Feigelson who has helped Steve Jobs re-architect the industry with iTunes and Mat from Metric who is creating a new way for bands to get born and built in the digital age. I also met some really cool companies like Echonest, Topspin, etc
At Index, having invested in Listen.com (Rhapsody) and Last.fm (CBS), we continued to invest in music - focussing mainly on two themes around how fans experience and enjoy music:
- live: Songkick and Viagogo
- listening: Doubletwist, rjdj, Sonos and Soundcloud
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Marking the Day
So many lessons learned from the 8 year journey that ended up being called Lovefilm.
Today, the torch passed to Amazon - I know there's lots more of this story to tell.
Today, the torch passed to Amazon - I know there's lots more of this story to tell.
January 11 2011
Project RFC $10m+
What is it?
A request for an open list by city or region (#citylist) of the tech startups in the last 10 years who are cracking the revenue code.
We are looking for businesses with $10m+ revenue run-rate (RFC $10m+), the companies who may not all become members of the Internet Dow, but are certainly contenders for its Fortune 500.
Why?
In case we hadn't noticed, business has changed - radically. In the last few years the Internet has created at very significant businesses of incredible scale and with remarkable growth rates -companies like Facebook, Groupon, Skype, Vente Privee and Zynga have gone from $0m to $1bn at mind-blowing speeds.
These are rare birds and they are the ones which people focus on. But there are already hundreds of other start-ups who have racked up very substantial revenues in the last 10 years and as Gilt, Groupon, Skye and Vente Privee increasingly show, many of these businesses are no longer in the Valley.
So in the spirit of learning from more of the great businesses across the Internet that are not just creating buzz and great Alexa numbers, but great revenue numbers - here's let's try RFC $10m+.
Hopefully this will help us to draw our some new strands of knowledge to supplement the amazing thinking being done around lean-startups and form some solid opinions on what makes great businesses, as well as great products.
How does it work?
Simple. The #citylists are not meant to be completely accurate or exhaustive - these are private companies, so how could they be.
Hopefully we can evolve decent coverage in some major tech hubs, so at least when you're travelling you have a good idea who you should try and visit :)
How can you help?
For now, Quora seems as good a place as any to keep the lists evolving.
Today I kicked off with #londonlist - and put in some markers for #paris, #berlin, #nordics, #israel and #nyc. Please help flesh them out - and share with your friends who can contribute.
This should be enough to get going with and hopefully spark a good discussion - not just about the companies themselves, but about the approaches they are taking to create great Internet businesses, not just buzz.
What about the Bay Area?
Go for it. But to be fair, we'd probably have to do #mtnview, #cupertino, #redwoodshores, #paloalto - #valley is too easy :)
A request for an open list by city or region (#citylist) of the tech startups in the last 10 years who are cracking the revenue code.
We are looking for businesses with $10m+ revenue run-rate (RFC $10m+), the companies who may not all become members of the Internet Dow, but are certainly contenders for its Fortune 500.
This is not a traditional RFC - although the underpinnings of everyone of these businesses are highly technical and are being built with a healthy mixture of open-source and cloud. A big point of evolutions, is that in many of these businesses the key new muscles they are developing are increasingly design and commercial.
Why?
In case we hadn't noticed, business has changed - radically. In the last few years the Internet has created at very significant businesses of incredible scale and with remarkable growth rates -companies like Facebook, Groupon, Skype, Vente Privee and Zynga have gone from $0m to $1bn at mind-blowing speeds.
These are rare birds and they are the ones which people focus on. But there are already hundreds of other start-ups who have racked up very substantial revenues in the last 10 years and as Gilt, Groupon, Skye and Vente Privee increasingly show, many of these businesses are no longer in the Valley.
So in the spirit of learning from more of the great businesses across the Internet that are not just creating buzz and great Alexa numbers, but great revenue numbers - here's let's try RFC $10m+.
Hopefully this will help us to draw our some new strands of knowledge to supplement the amazing thinking being done around lean-startups and form some solid opinions on what makes great businesses, as well as great products.
How does it work?
Simple. The #citylists are not meant to be completely accurate or exhaustive - these are private companies, so how could they be.
Hopefully we can evolve decent coverage in some major tech hubs, so at least when you're travelling you have a good idea who you should try and visit :)
How can you help?
For now, Quora seems as good a place as any to keep the lists evolving.
Today I kicked off with #londonlist - and put in some markers for #paris, #berlin, #nordics, #israel and #nyc. Please help flesh them out - and share with your friends who can contribute.
This should be enough to get going with and hopefully spark a good discussion - not just about the companies themselves, but about the approaches they are taking to create great Internet businesses, not just buzz.
What about the Bay Area?
Go for it. But to be fair, we'd probably have to do #mtnview, #cupertino, #redwoodshores, #paloalto - #valley is too easy :)
December 07 2010
November 16 2010
3d organizations
Something I've been thinking about for some time - the ideal shape of a startup organization and what it means for the longer term
Decided to post on Quora to see what happens....
Decided to post on Quora to see what happens....
April 25 2010
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March 15 2010
Presentation @ Plugg 2010
It was great fun presenting at Plugg 2010 in Brussels last week about the opportunities for European entrepreneurs to build game changing businesseses and learn to play nicely with the US.
If you're interested, here are the slides....
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If you're interested, here are the slides....
Europe needs to learn to play nicely
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