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Day: November 22, 2006

etribes and Simon Grice

I hooked up with Simon Grice, Founder of etribes yesterday (piggy-backing on an e-mail I received from Chris Leigh of Real Time Race). Within 24 hours, we have a dedicated web presence for the StartUp 2.0 events. A true collaborative effort. etribes also have a payment gateway, which will no doubt be handy for organising future events. Unfortunately, upcoming.org has serious limitations (e.g. it does not record sufficient details of users – no company name or designation – a nightmare when organising name tags/badges). Tags: NW Start Up 2.0, etribes, upcoming.org

Who is coming to NW Start Up 2.0 – the premier web 2.0 and SaaS event in the North West

I have just been sorting out the name tags for the event (shame on those who have not given me their names, company names and designations!). Here is a list of entrepreneurs who have brought or in the process of bringing products and solutions to the market (please note web developers, outsourcing experts, etc have been ignored): Anish Kapoor and Philip Hemsted  – CEO and Director (respectively) of Yuuguu – Solutions for teleworker – in private beta (first round funding by Rising Stars) Ivan Pope – CEO of Snipperoo – Widgets (seeking equity finance) Manoj Ranaweera – CEO of ebdex…