This year’s European startup conference GeeknRolla has become a platform for news, as startups launched and speakers broke news direct from the stage.
Duedil, the business reputation startup, secured first prize in the startup competition, and an on-the-day announcement from DFJ Esprit that it would award the winner a £50,000 no strings investment in the form of a convertible note. This would… → Read More
GeeknRolla [tickets here] is the annual conference to bring together Europe’s technology startups to network with investors and talk about how they create and build themselves. The watchwords are: Launch startups; give investors dealflow.
As with last year there is a special emphasis on launching startups and connecting them with investors, who will comprise our judging panels. There will also be… → Read More
Three years ago I created the concept of the GeeknRolla annual conference to bring together Europe’s technology startups to network with investors and talk about how they create and build themselves. This year we are stepping on the gas pedal. We want to launch 15-20 brand new startups there and our tagline this year is this: “Investor Dealflow. Startup Exposure”.
If you are a European startup in… → Read More
GeeknRolla produced a lot of content from both the speakers and pitches and we’re only now starting to sift through it all. But although it’s hard to get across the atmosphere of fevered activity and conversations in words, this video from the great Hermione Way at TechFluffTV gets it across pretty well. You can catch Hermione as cohost of The Next Web conference next week. → Read More
Well GeeknRolla rocked London for another year and the feedback we’ve had has been incredible. The Twitter stream has been fantastic. There are plenty of pictures, and a few blog posts appearing already.
Congratulations to the winners of the startup competition. The overall winner, chosen by three panels of esteemed judges, was Cortexica. They were followed by iGlue, SongHi, DriveK, and Graph.me. → Read More
Well GeeknRolla rocked London for another year and the feedback we’ve had has been incredible. The Twitter stream has been fantastic. There are plenty of pictures, and a few blog posts appearing already.
Congratulations to the winners of the startup competition. The overall winner, chosen by three panels of esteemed judges, was Cortexica. They were followed by iGlue, SongHi, DriveK, and Graph.me. → Read More
Well, we know some of you have gone through a lot to be here for GeeknRolla in London.
And some have had to hang around in London long longer than you thought.
But we know everyone is here to make this a great day to discuss the wonderful world of tech startups, so here’s our programme for today.
Below you’ll find our live video stream. We’re also live blogging on TechCrunch Europe. → Read More
Well, we know some of you have gone through a lot to be here for GeeknRolla in London, the startup conference from TechCrunch Europe.
And some have had to hang around in London long longer than you thought.
But we know everyone is here to make this a great day to discuss the wonderful world of tech startups, so here’s our programme for today.
Below you’ll find our live video stream. We’re also… → Read More
Well folks, it’s been an interesting weekend of email and phone calls, but the good news is that GeeknRolla is STILL ON tomorrow, and there is not one single damn volcano on the planet, however ash-filled, that can stop us bringing this awesome event to you. The very last tickets and DemoPit tables are available here.
And frankly, we have to pay tribute to you guys. We have been hearing amazing… → Read More
Next Tuesday, GeeknRolla (remember, it’s all one word), the annual conference from TechCrunch Europe which brings together Europe’s technology startups and investors, will, quite literally, rock London.
All the delegate passes are *SOLD OUT*. However, we have begged and pleaded with the venue to cram more chairs into the space. So there will be a final allocation of 25 tickets going online… → Read More
We’re just over a week away from GeeknRolla the annual conference from TechCrunch Europe which brings together Europe’s technology startups and investors. We have an amazing line-up of speakers, panels and startup judges on April 20. We’ll be launching around 15 startups in front of a panel of around 18 judges. There will also be a DemoPit for startups not selected to appear on the main… → Read More
We’re just over a week away from GeeknRolla the annual conference from TechCrunch Europe which brings together Europe’s technology startups and investors in London. We have an amazing line-up of speakers, panels and startup judges on April 20. We’ll be launching around 15 startups in front of a panel of around 18 judges. There will also be a DemoPit for startups not selected to appear on the main… → Read More
Bebo co-founder Michael Birch has confirmed that he will be joining us at GeeknRolla in London on April 20, the annual London conference for technology startups to launch, network with investors and talk about how they build themselves.
Michael Birch is the Co-founder of Bebo and Birthday Alarm. Birch was raised in North London, England, went to Imperial College, London in Central London, worked… → Read More
This year’s GeeknRolla in London on April 20 will, in a word, be awesome. I created the concept of this this annual conference to bring together Europe’s technology startups to network with investors and talk about how they create and build themselves. There’s a heavy educational component, if you will. So if the cool kids will be at TechCrunch Disrupt in May, you can bet they’ll but out in force… → Read More
This year’s GeeknRolla in London on April 20 will, in a word, be awesome. The annual conference from TechCrunch Europe will bring together Europe’s technology startups to network with investors and talk about how they create and build themselves. If the cool kids will be at TechCrunch Disrupt in May, you can bet they’ll but out in force in London in April.
Our speaker programme is below. This… → Read More
Tommy Ahlers, founder of ZYB which was acquired by Vodafone for €31.5m in 2008 – will be keynoting at this year’s GeeknRolla in London on April 20. GeeknRolla is an annual London conference for technology startups to launch, network with investors and talk about how they create and build themselves.
Before founding ZYB, where he has held the position of CEO since the company’s inception… → Read More
TechCrunch Europe is plotting the next series of events we’re planning this year.
But we’re going to need your help.
We’re looking for speakers and startups to appear at our events, and we’re especially interested in new startups planning to launch (read on about why).
Meanwhile we’ve set up ticketing sites for you now so you can actually go and get early bird ticket prices right now. See below… → Read More
Jof Arnold Co-founder, Gymfu.com
Jof Arnold is a self-professed “geektech adventurer” based in London. His latest project is GymFu.com – an iPhone startup focused on using motion-tracking and gaming to improve people’s health. He also runs web and iPhone dev agency BrainBakery.com with GymFu co-founder Benjie Gillam. His move into web startups in 2007 marked a shift from a hitherto… → Read More
A big thanks for making Geek ‘n Rolla a memorable event also needs to go to Enamel, a new indie band that stepped in at the last minute to add somespice to our after-party at Cafe de Paris. Although they describe themselves at being influenced by The Police, David Bowie and Duran Duran, personally I’d describe them as “more accessible Franz Ferdinand”.
Tim Dickinson (Vocals), Leo Dawkins… → Read More
Joe Drumgoole, CTO and co-founder of PutPlace, (@jdrumgoole) has now uploading the slides from his ‘speed speech’ at Geek ‘n Rolla, title “Launching your Startup on a cloud computing infrastructure”. The main take-away? Watch the per transaction costs in cloud computing.
Benjamin Ellis wrote on Business Tech Feed: → Read More
William Reeve, serial entrepreneur and Angel investor, spoke at Geek ‘n Rolla on “Bootstrapping, Scaling and Cashflow”. Since then I’ve had many people tell me how great his speech was. So he has kindly supplied his slides from the speech. (We are working on getting all audio from the day as well). → Read More
A wrap-up post collating lots of feedback and thoughts by people who attended Geek’ n Rolla is coming. But one of the most hotly debated issues since the conference on Tuesday has been the panel about Women in Tech, specifically tech startups. Here’s who was on the panel and the original title: 11.50am Panel: Just a girl – Balancing Tech Culture: Getting more women involved in… → Read More
In the two days since GeeknRolla ended I’ve had some great feedback from you all about how it went. And I’m afraid to say that I’ve been hard pressed to find much criticism of the event. The feedback, in real life and on Twitter (see #gknr) has been roughly 99% positive (no, really!) even if I do say so myself. So, given that you can comment anonymously on this blog post, feel… → Read More
Here is the Ustream video from the day. Huge thanks to Hermione Way (@HermioneWay) and the TechFluffTV (@techfluffTV) team, including Josh March (@JoshuaMarch).
Alternative link here GeeknRolla → Read More
Live Blog: Think through the business model early on – startups often make the mistake that this means tinkering with a spreadsheet for months.
There are lots of ways to sell valuable services – find the ‘best fit’ for your company and your customers. How and what are they willing to pay for the services?
It’s all about the details – the devil is in the details and the execution. Talk to other… → Read More
Bankrobber – To VC or not to VC? That Is The Question
Fred Destin, Atlas Ventures
Fred Destin joined Atlas in 2004 and is a Partner in the technology group. He focuses on software and technology-enabled services and digital media infrastructure and applications. He previously co-managed OM Technology Investments, an IP Services and FinTech focused fund backed by Allianz/Dresdner. He served on the… → Read More
Send me an Angel – Funding and How to Handle Angels Nick says: Finding an angel is like finding an invisible man – they don’t tend to broadcast their presence but they network to find likely opportunities, and they also know each other. They’ll group together by region so they can do larger investments as well. There are plenty of companies out there who say they can get… → Read More
American Idiot – Launching Your Startup In the US – when you’re actually in Scotland LesleyEccles, co-founder of Hubdub, a news prediction game drops the 411 on how to successfully launch a startup in a region you don’t actually live in. The site launched in November last year and got about 500k web users, mentioned across about 100 media outlets, considered to be quite a… → Read More
Ian Hogarth, co-founder and CEO of music startup Songkick.com reckons the best way for a startup to focus on what they do best is to find third party tech tools to do the non-core heavy lifting. To this end, he’s started a wiki collection of startup tools, contributed by Songkick, Playfire, TinyCoupon, Habit Industries, Poll Everywhere, GroupSpaces and Huddle. “One of the most… → Read More
Leisa Reichelt, freelance user experience consultant, talking about what startups most often get wrong about UX and what they should do about it. Step 1: Find your audience. It’s amazing how few startups actually know who their audience is. There is no such thing as ‘the general public. Step 2: Know your audience This is the step that a lot of companies just seem to ignore. Once you… → Read More
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