Public beta?
Posted by evgeny on 10 September, 2008 in Uncategorized
A few hours ago, we opened the registration on Kappa Prime, so anybody can get an account there and try the service. This move follows the redesign that we had in early September. If you love or hate the new design, please let me know 
Privacy
Posted by simon on 5 September, 2008 in Uncategorized
Privacy and the control users have of who can see there data is a hot topic at Kappa Prime as we approach our soft release. Kappa Prime has a number of elements of other sites all rolled into one. There are profile pages like MySpace or Facebook; Colloborative descriptions of papers and the relationships between [...]
Open Coffee is alive and well
Posted by evgeny on 28 August, 2008 in Uncategorized
Open Coffee is a meetup for everyone who is involved or interested in startups. Since spring last year a few dozen people met every Thursday morning in a cafe to network.
I attended almost every meetup between September and March but then something happened. Fewer and fewer people began to attend and the people I [...]
Bootlaw: free legal seminar for startups from Winston&Strawn
Posted by evgeny on 23 August, 2008 in Uncategorized
Techcrunch UK recently published a post by Songkick’s founder, Ian Hogarth, on the lack of hacker meetups in the UK. No doubt about it, there are few regular meetups and even fewer good ones, where you can meet all the interesting people from the startup industry.
Of course there is DrinkTank, which is the meetup for [...]
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 [...]
Sharing information
Posted by evgeny on 11 June, 2008 in Uncategorized
Essentially, it’s all about sharing information. Last year while doing some research on geographical indexing and searching I spent a great amount of time trying to understand what had already been done in this field. When I was stuck I asked Simon, who helped me with my work, for advice on what to read next.
Doing [...]
Kappa Prime - a quick tour
Posted by simon on 4 June, 2008 in Uncategorized
During the alpha test registering for Kappa Prime will be by invitation only. If you’re lucky enough to be one of our alpha testers, here is a quick guide to getting started on Kappa Prime:
When you first log into to Kappa Prime, you’ll find yourself on the newsfeed, this is the homepage where you can [...]
Almost ready
Posted by evgeny on 1 June, 2008 in Uncategorized
This week we are going to have a closed release of Kappa Prime. A few users from Imperial College will be invited with a hope that they’ll like the service and they’ll invite more users. The beauty of a startup lies in a complete unpredictability of the future but the same unpredictability makes the founders [...]