Day: May 12, 2007

As I was in London on last Thursday, I dropped in at OpenCoffee London (on the 5th floor of Waterstones in Piccadilly) organised by Saul Klein of Index Ventures. Unfortunately, Saul was not there, but met Sayula Kirby who works closely with Saul. We spoke about the next NW StartUp 2.0 event, which will be on 14th June 2007 at KPMG Manchester. I am interested in getting Saul to attend this event as a speaker. Familiar faces I met include: Sam Sethi of Blognation – I actually met Sam the previous night for a tea (and a glass of wine)…

For some unknown reason, SAP is sponsoring me to attend their European gig, SAP SAPPHIRE 07 in Vienna from 14th to 16th of May 2007. I am no A-list blogger. In fact, since changing the URL, I have struggled to get into the top 200,000 of the world wide blogs tracked by Technorati. So why did SAP invite me? Is this because Oracle was a partner of ebdex and SAP was not? Or is it because I registered on SAP enquiring about a possible partnership opportunity? Or is it because I am perhaps the only blogger ranting about e-invoicing, EIPP…