July 2008

Competition

Posted by simon on 25 July, 2008 in Uncategorized

There’s always competition to any new business, even if that competition is the user doing nothing. Last week Evgeny and I went to meet some of our competition in London: Mendeley. Mendeley have a similar concept to Kappa Prime but with a different ethos; while Kappa Prime is focused on a web based service, Mendeley [...]

TC Pitch

Posted by evgeny on 17 July, 2008 in Uncategorized

A few days ago I attended TechCrunch Pitch, an event organised by Mike Butcher from TechCrunch UK. As Mike describes it, he felt many startups didn’t know how to pitch properly, so he organised an event where all participants were asked to deliver short and focused presentations.
There were two kinds of pitches: full pitches and [...]