Silicon Roundabout – who’s investing in what?

January 6, 2011 2d Comments

Wired Magazine’s February 2011 edition has an interesting article on Silicon Roundabout. This nexus of technology and new media startups around Old Street, just to the North of the City of London, has been attracting increasing attention from the media and investors. The essential proposition is that this is a mini-silicon valley start-up hub.

This got me thinking…

Using the list from Wired Magazine’s (have a look here) I thought it would be interesting to see who is investing in what types of companies.

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Facebook De-Nationalises Money – The Worlds New Reserve Currency

December 13, 2010

However, I think there is a better argument. Facebook issuing its own currency. Globally at a stroke they would not disintermediate banks but Governments. People in any location could trade their online and offline goods and services for Facebook Credits (Lets not call them dollars – so 20th Century!).

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Digital Coach – to be or not to be? That is the Question!

December 10, 2010

I recently spent half a day with Thomas Power and attended his Digital Mind Set Seminar in London. The purpose of the seminar is to help attendees understand the role of the Ecademy Digital Coach and whether this is for them. Ecademy is one of, soon to be many, organisations which are moving its Social Media expertise into the coaching market. The reason for this is simple, there is a huge market of corporates and individuals who need to learn more about Social Media and Ecademy needs to scale its teaching business and use greater scale to leverage its knowledge.

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