Mike Butcher
Exclusive: Saul Klein On Seedcamp’s Past, Present And Future
Today Saul Klein , chairman and co-founder of Seedcamp , the pan-European programme for early stage startups, blogged a long post about Seedcamp’s structure and history.
Mobile And Social Platforms Want To Be The King Of Local Search
We’ve been saying for a while that ‘local’ is going to be one of those ‘next big things’, and the win by Red Beacon at TechCrunch 50 has been something of a clarion call for this. Now a new study from TMP Directional Marketing has come out with some interesting data to back this up
Launch48 Startups Present Their Ideas After 48 Hours Of Hacking
The Launch48 event in London this weekend has seen six teams attempt to launch a startup in, you guessed it 48 hours. The event, which was basically created by some UK startup enthusiasts , is different to StartupWeekend in that separate teams come together to each work on their own project rather than one. After frantically coding for the last couple of days, the results were presented tonight at the event, so here they are in order of presentation.
Gilt, eBay And Amazon Circle Vente Privee With Chatter Of $1.5 Billion On The Table
On stage at last year’s Le Web an argument broke out between co-founder Loic Le Meur and TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington over whether Europe was capable of producing a ‘big win’ Web company or whether Skype was, perhaps, just a one-hit wonder. Like heavyweight fighters, they traded some heavy blows in subsequent blog posts
LeWeb Startup Competition Partners With TechCrunch Europe
I’m delighted to announce that this year’s Startup Competition at LeWeb , the annual gathering of global technology luminaries and startups in Paris, will be organized in partnership with TechCrunch Europe . We’ve been running startup events all over Europe for some time now — so I hope to be able to inject our experience into this great event. Like last year, the LeWeb Startup Competition will have a dedicated room and stage
Europe’s Livebookings Secures $16m From Wellington Partners
Livebookings , European-based restaurant reservation service, has secured $16 million in a new funding round from Germany/Pan-European VC firm Wellington Partners. Niklas Eklund, Livebookings’ CEO says Livebookings is “at a point” where it clearly sees itself scaling globally. It’s also clearly benefiting from credit-crunched restaurants now switching to online reservations to fill their tables, something Livebookings says has risen by 91% this summer compared to last, but there is plenty of growth left in the market.
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