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#launch48 - a new web businesss in 48 hours

As part of my experimentation with London’s entrepreneurial meetup scene I’ve signed up for something called Launch48 - #launch48 - it’s aim is to get talented, enthusiastic, intelligent people together for a weekend - and to see whether or not we can successfully launch a new web business.
It definitely sounds interesting to me and it [...]

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Marks out of ten for some meetups… (why on earth do people go to minibar?)

So, as I reported in some earlier blog posts, I’ve been attending quite a few meetups recently - both of the technical and the entrepreneurial type.
And I figured it was time I gave some feedback on them.
Here’s the scores on the doors…

Open coffee - 8 - weekly meetup in a university cafeteria in the centre [...]

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A few things *not* to do at a meetup (part 1b)

So here are the mistakes I’ve made so far:

Business cards - I don’t think I’ve met anyone yet who hasn’t had a pile of cards ready to distribute… but I’ve not yet printed any “new me” cards - I really must get on with this! The place to do this seems to be the excellent [...]

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A few things *not* to do at a meetup (part 1a)

As covered in a few earlier posts, one of the experiments I’ve been looking at is attending some of the entrepreneurial and technical meetups which are occurring in and around London.
So far, I’ve been along to:

Ultralightstartups - a small (it as their first meeting) gathering of 15 people interested in launching new companies on very [...]

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