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Topic: Seedcamp Week / August 25th - Bank Holiday?

Hi Richard-

Yes, candidates will find out despite the bank holiday – interns don’t know the meaning of the word! It may be late in the day though.

All notifications are handles by email.

Hope that helps,
Michael

Topic: Seedcamp Week / August 25th - Bank Holiday?

Just a quick question. In terms of noticification, the 25th is a UK Bank Holiday. Will the short list candiates still find out on that day?

Also, how should we the candiates expect to find out? E-mail? Telephone?

All the best

Richard Healy
BaseKit.com

Topic: Marketing & Business Development / Have time available to look at good projoects on risk

Hi,

I am busy developing my own project here in Europe at the moment, am currently based very Centrally in Antwerp (Brussels, Amsterdam, London, Paris,) all a stone’s throw, and have some time to look at other projects at the moment on risk if the potential is strong.

Have a look at my bio and I have a competency list of projects completed if you are interested.

Have a fab day,

Dan

Topic: General Startup news/thoughts / Just back from South Africa after 10 year tour of duty

Would really like to meet and network with entreprenuers/service providers for my next big thing. Especially internet/digital media channels and pricing.

Maybe start a few discussion threads here.

Get in touch.

Topic: General / Y Combinator To Offer Standardized Funding Legal Docs

Hi Reshma,

Sounds Great!

Looking forward to read your document and see how we can promote a pan-European standard.

Cheers.

Topic: General / Y Combinator To Offer Standardized Funding Legal Docs

Yep, we have been looking into doing this as well. We had a pretty standard document that all the Seedcamp companies used last year. We will provide something here.

Topic: General / Y Combinator To Offer Standardized Funding Legal Docs

http://tinyurl.com/6dnv94

I think this is awesome seeing this coming from Paul Graham.

This is something we have been working on within P2PVenture for the French context for a while.

I believe Seedcamp is in the best position to initiate an analog initiative at the European level for reference documents written in English, or at least for legal documents applicable in the UK. I would be happy to cooperate and I already know some barristers who could give a hand.

Frederic

Topic: General Startup news/thoughts / www.champions365.com sport gets a web 2.0 makeover

HI everyone would be really interested in the group’s thoughts to our new website www.champions365.com quite an ambitious project that combines facebook elements with live news feeds in 15 different sports. Please send through your feedback here or alternatively email me at peter.janes@sportsiltd.com

Thanks very much in advance

Peter
www.champions365.com

Topic: General Startup news/thoughts / finding a co-founder/financier

RE: ABOUT OPPORT LABS

OPPORT LAB Project is an integration of various innovative schemes that I’ve been developing in the past three months.It unveils new and strategic solutions in different lines of business including the tech sector for 2008 and beyond.It consists of 3 main areas with innovations in ie.

1.on climate change(software and forum)

name: Mr Mwiche simwanza

email: confirmedbiz@hotmail.com

phone: +260977882974

Topic: Seedcamp Week / What's the count?

The short answer is that we don’t want to fixate on the numbers alone – and that applies internally and externally. They’re useful to get a comparative sense of a few things of course, but if we choose the wrong targets we’ll get the wrong results, and the last thing we want is a competition that emphasizes quantity over quality.

Of course the rebuttal to this argument is “well if the numbers are almost meaningless then why not share them?” – the hard truth is that, even with repeated caveats about how they don’t matter, if we do share them there will be inevitable comparisons year after year. People love statistics (myself included) and just having them around can be distracting.

Topic: Seedcamp Week / What's the count?

Why?

Topic: Seedcamp Week / What's the count?

Hi Martin-

We’re going to respond to that shortly with a blog post, but just to warn you we’re probably not going to give an exact number ;).

-M

Topic: Seedcamp Week / What's the count?

Hello there,

I’m just curious to death to know how many applications you received this year :) Any number available yet? Thanks!

Cheers,
Martin

Topic: Meet & Greet / real innovation

i`m looking for co-founders for my IT PROJECT The OPPORT LABS PROJECT. innovtions ranges from telecoms to the internet. potential partner must be passionate and focussed for more information please call +260977882974 or email confirmedbiz@hotmail.com

Topic: Techical & Code / seedcamp application preview - broken new lines

hi,
after you’ve just saved your application – in preview mode, all answers loose newlines in text and all lists shows as solid line. I’m just afraid its not really readable.

thanks!

Topic: General / Founder criteria

Hi Martin-

Yes, it’s still possible to apply. Without reviewing your application I can’t tell you if it’s slightly outside the typical Seedcamp grounds, but if it has the potential to be a big ideal with very little initial capital and involves heavily leveraging technology I’d say go for it.

-Michael

Topic: General / Additional help for non native English speakers.

Hi Bostjan-

Target market: we’re looking to see the group of users and/or customers for whom you’re building your idea, and why they’re not getting what they want or need today. For example, Flickr might say they’re looking at the online photo-sharing market, and all the existing photo sites don’t allow simple sharing of albums without forcing users to complete an onerous registration process.

Customer need: here you should put the specific problem your business is trying to address, which is usually tied to the “target market” question. For example, Ebay would mention that local auction markets aren’t offering buyers and sellers the broadest possible base with whom to exchange goods.

Of course both those examples are extremely simplified – when answering you should be a little more thorough ;)

Let me know if this doesn’t help.

-Michael

Topic: General / Urgent: improve your Seedcamp application

yes you are right! I just had a 3 hour cconversation with another company and some of our answers completly changed.

Eike

Topic: General / Urgent: improve your Seedcamp application

I’m neither an applicant nor involved in the organization, but this seems like a very good idea. I think it could even come as a standard option for similar events to have a way of pooling applicants so that they can benefit from each other insights and maybe even pool resources in applying.

Frederic

Topic: General / Urgent: improve your Seedcamp application

Hi Seedcamp applicants:

By now you are likely to have written your application and maybe taking a last glance over it to make sure it has no spelling or grammar mistakes, good style, coherency etc..

The application format with many questions rather than one single business presentation offers some challenges. It is for example possible to get absorbed in details without showing a coherent picture about the business. That is big problem as the selection committee is taking a decision solely on what is written. Your business might be great but if your application sucks you will not get a spot in this years seedcamp.

So we should check our applications twice. But we might not notice things in our own applications that we would immediately notice in someone else’s. Thus I propose this to you: I will read your application and correct for spelling, grammar style and give suggestion about the content if you do the same for our application.

There are over 400 applications so the chance that either one of us gets on spot # 20 and the other only 21, thus not being selected is minimal. So lets join forces and submit a winning application!

Eike
eikepost at hotmail.com

Topic: Meet & Greet / I'm looking for co-founders!

Hey everyone,
I’m also looking for a Rails developer to be my co-founder. If you’re passionate about languages and would like to talk more, you can contact me at nachocab@gmail.com. I’m Spanish, but I live in France.

Topic: General Startup news/thoughts / Where is everyone from?

Montpellier, France (looking for co-founders)

Topic: General / Founder criteria

Hey there!

I have some questions about the founder criteria as well and didn´t wanna open a new thread.
We are a team of three founders, however, there is no software developer with us. Our product is also not a typical internet service. Only one part, which is however the most important part is connected to the internet. We are working together with a freelance developer but he is not part of the founder team.

Is it still possible to apply? Thanks for your help!
Martin

Topic: General / Additional help for non native English speakers.

Hello,

Not all of the questions in the application form are explained in the application guide. I was wondering if you could explain the next two:

Hope to hear from you soon,
Boštjan

Topic: Seedcamp Week / Submission formatting

Point taken… right now though, with two days to go it would be too risky to change it.