Tag Archives: business

‘Marketing is dead’ said Kevin Roberts, CEO of Saatchi and Saatchi. We asked two Silicon Roundabout entrepreneurs if they agreed!

31 May 2012
by Silicon Roundabout
Categories: Interviews, News, Press coverage

The headline in The Drum magazine (May 11th) read ‘MARKETING IS DEAD… or so said Kevin Roberts when addressing the Institute of Directors conference recently – shocking words considering he is chief executive officer at one of the world’s biggest …

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Rob Moffat of Balderton Capital reflects on Incubators and Accelerators in Europe

28 May 2012
by Silicon Roundabout
Categories: Angel Investors, News, Startups, Venture Capital

Recent interviews with startups in Silicon Roundabout have focused increasingly on funding and mentoring. We thought we would start the week with a guest blog by Rob Moffat of Balderton Capital who is involved with portfolio companies such as Housetrip, …

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Litigation in the digital world; Kemp Little and Wiggin give us The Lawyers’ view!

21 May 2012
by Silicon Roundabout
Categories: Ask the Expert, Interviews, News, Press coverage

In the second part of our piece following the Financial Times article ‘The curse of innovation’, we asked two leading law firms Kemp Little and Wiggin whether they were concerned about a potential future cycle of IP disputes “spilling over …

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Colette Ballou on hiring a PR Agency!

2 May 2012
by Silicon Roundabout
Categories: Ask the Expert, Interviews, News, Press coverage

Colette Ballou is the founder of Ballou PR. With a client roster that includes Eventbrite, Seatwave and Shopping.com she is well placed to give us the inside track about what to think about before hiring a PR agency. It’s heartbreaking …

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Silicon Roundabout: is it all about location, location, location?

27 April 2012
by Silicon Roundabout
Categories: Finding offices, Interviews, News, Property, Startups

In February 2012 David Rowan, editor of Wired magazine wrote a piece ‘How Significant is Silicon Roundabout’. The title raises some interesting questions! A few months ago at a conference it was suggested to us that to believe Silicon Roundabout …

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How a ‘Regret minimisation framework’ may have inadvertently started three great businesses

14 March 2012
by Silicon Roundabout
Categories: Interviews, News, Startups

We are always looking for a fresh and different perspective from Silicon Roundabout’s genuine game changers and disruptors. This week we caught up with six leading  entrepreneurs and asked them the same question. You may be surprised! In the 1990’s …

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Colette Ballou, founder and CEO of Ballou PR, is the latest addition to our ‘Ask the Experts’ panel

19 January 2012
by Silicon Roundabout
Categories: Ask the Expert, Interviews, News, Startups

You would be hard pressed to have missed the raft of press articles over the last couple of months that have brought the role of public relations in its myriad forms to the forefront of our consciousness. Operating at national …

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Calum Murray, Head of Commercial Technology and corporate partner Andy Moseby at Kemp Little, join our ‘Ask the Experts’ panel

12 January 2012
by Silicon Roundabout
Categories: Ask the Expert, Interviews, News, Startups, Venture Capital

In deciding upon the appropriate lawyers for our ‘Ask The Expert’ panel we wanted a firm that represented amongst others the award winning (AKQA were Adweeks Agency of the year), newsworthy (‘Lovefilm Signs BBC And ITV Deals in Netflix TV …

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Do you have a question for our panel of digital experts?

23 December 2011
by Silicon Roundabout
Categories: Angel Investors, News, Startups, Venture Capital

‘Tech Entrepreneurs week’ was an eye opener in many ways, one of which was the almost insatiable desire from the audience to accumulate as much knowledge as possible from the various ‘keynote speakers’ assembled. Allied to the infectious passion from …

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What to remember about Angel Investors? Top 10 ‘suggestions’ from serial entrepreneur Sherry Coutu!

12 December 2011
by Silicon Roundabout
Categories: Angel Investors, Interviews, News, Startups, Venture Capital

The incredible ‘vibe’ be it on entering Techhub or The Trampery at Silicon Roundabout, grabbing a coffee at The Bookclub (Leonard Street) or sitting in the audience at Tech Entrepreneurs Week (as we did!) amongst a multitude of startups is …

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