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@GeeknRolla: Morten Lund asks 'how close to the edge do you dare to go?'
<img src="http://eu.beta.techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/photo_2_2204c08d24f13042e20639c8ed6595b4.jpg" class="shot2" />Words can't really do justice to <a href="http://lundxy.com/">Morten Lund</a>'s
@GeeknRolla: European start-ups seeking US investment – is it worth the trouble?
<img src="http://eu.beta.techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/photo_1_c356f5a96c08cd19ae4ee3521928ab2c.jpg" class="shot2" />It's what most start-ups dream of: securing big money investment from one the t
@GeeknRolla: VC Chris Fralic on the art of the email intro
Before you sign any deal, you need to make contact. For most start-ups seeking that all-important first meeting with potential investors or partners, email is the first means of communication. But as
@GeeknRolla: How to crack the French online market
If your start-up is plateauing in terms of users and revenue in the UK, it’s only natural you might look further afield for growth opportunities. But while the dream for many early stage digital
@GeeknRolla: Rummble founder reveals his start-up rules of engagement
Serial entrepreneur CEO Andrew J Scott has launched a handful of online businesses, survived to tell the tale and returned as founder and CEO of location-based mobile app Rummble. Scott was on hand to
@GeeknRolla: Why app developers should look beyond the iPhone
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@GeeknRolla: How not to pitch to VCs
Pitching to a panel of sceptical VCs is just like a first date. The point is to get a second date and maybe a long-term relationship out of it and many of the same rules apply. At least that’s a
@GeeknRolla: Big-league VCs backing Europe's digital start-up scene
<img src="http://eu.beta.techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/Picture-401.png" class="shot2" />It was hard enough to attract the attention and cash of VCs <i>before</i> the econony almost crashed into ob
@GeeknRolla: SongHI: a community for the GuitarHero generation
SongHi is an entertainment-based online community aimed at the “Guitar Hero generation” across the world. It lets users create and personalise their own musical identity and form bands in
@GeeknRolla: StrippedFinance adds social media to financial advice
StrippedFinance is a social media platform for personal finance that allows consumers, finance professionals and companies to come together in a secure place tailored for regulatory and financial busi
@GeeknRolla: pownum lets anyone rate any company on its service
When consumers have issues with companies, like their broadband provider or an airline, they rarely know how to complain. But that’s where pownum comes in: the site acts as a “social platf
@GeeknRolla: Musiio aims to let bands go direct to fans
musiio.com wants to be the source of the freshest music and is proposing a new model for music distribution. Fans can listen for free, buy tracks to download or see what their friends are listening to
@GeeknRolla: Maptales launches location-based social broadcasting app
<img src="http://eu.beta.techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/Picture-381.png" class="shot2" /><a href="http://Maptales.com">Maptales</a> is a location-based "social broadcasting and exploring" mobile ap
@GeeknRolla: Linkcloud wants to make Web linking a visual medium
Linkcloud’s vision is to evolve links to turn links into to a visual medium rather than just a text-based reading one. Linkcloud will turn your favorite links into images. It’s like visual
@GeeknRolla: iGlue lets you build your own Wikipedia over the Web
iGlue is a knowledge organisation service which creates an additional information layer over web pages. In other words it can understand a web page’s content and start building a database of kno
@GeeknRolla: Graph.me compares your online social capital to others
Graph.me is described as “social benchmarking”. You can start your own poll on graph.me and find out to which piece of the pie chart you belong – and who’s “on your side&
@GeeknRolla: Gigaboxx lets bands sell music direct to their live audience
Gigaboxx allows artists and record companies to sell direct to their live audience, through their own mobile music stores. These stores can be quickly produced and managed, by using a simple online wi
@GeeknRolla: GameCreds creates a new type of social network for gamers
GameCreds is a an innovative new social network allowing gamers to create and manage their “Gamer ID” online through a set of automated tools, connecting gamers in a new way It effectively
@GeeknRolla: Decibel has killer data about music
Decibel supplies in-depth music data to drive the next generation of digital music, with over 30 million tracks in the database to help people discover music. What can it do? For the music biz it coul
@GeeknRolla: Advice for budding start-ups: funding, staffing and getting noticed
You’ve got your idea, you’ve assembled a team and set your goals. All you need now is some funding. Easy, right? Not quite. Running a start-up is hard and attracting the right sort of fund