Posts Tagged ‘Seedcamp’

14
Sep

Of London, Murphy and Seedcamp

   Posted by: Swizec    in Uncategorized

Greater London
Image via Wikipedia

Last week’s trip to London was governed by the laws of Murphy, or Sod as Londoners would call ‘im. It was a fun and interesting trip, don’t get me wrong, and I still love London almost as much as I did after my last trip there two years ago. It’s just that pretty much everything imaginable that could go wrong actually done gone wrong and the culmination of this was that we didn’t advance to Seedcamp week.

But let me start from the beginning. Day one went great, we finished the linear algebra exam (flunked it yet again btw) and set of to Munich for the flight. The ride went spectacularly smooth and we got to our flight on time. And that’s when the trouble started.

During the day I got some more ideas on how to polish our presentation and decided to do them at the airport. There wasn’t enough time. Alright, I’ll do them on the aeorplane. Oh crap, aeroplanes don’t have internets, no go. Very well, can’t do the presentation, can’t do the polishing on the demo. Fine.

So then we got to Gatwick and paid through the nose to get to Victoria station. Now what? Well after a brief search for somewhere to stay, we took a ride off to Pimlico where the fucking shoebox was ready to take us in. It was a twin bed

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24
Aug

From idea to seedcamp application in a week

   Posted by: Swizec    in Uncategorized

Hove urban landscape
Image by Julie70 via Flickr

Seedcamp, as many probably know, is a bit like America’s Next Top Model, but for entrepreneurs and their ideas. Therefore, apply I must, yes. Well the deadline was last night and we’ve done the best we can and now we wait for the gods of innovation to smile down upon us and smite us with their blessings.

The whole process went a little bit like this:

  • work on a project with a vague idea of what you actually want (for a year)
  • get so involved with the details of the project that you forget to even consider the master vision
  • suddenly snap out of it and realise you’ve been approaching the problem all wrong
  • boil away all the cruft and come back to a naked master vision
  • decide to give it a new wrapping and rework the whole thing with help from some awesome people
  • realise something like this would do great on seedcamp with the right pitch
  • suddenly remember the deadline is in a week

After that it was just a mad dash to the finish line, which ultimately culminated in a rather lovely pitch (a full 20 hours before deadline, lovely), a quite well working proof of concept prototype demo, which I’m not going to show you guys, and a video, which you’re about to see.

The whole week was packed chock full of twelve and more hour workdays, especially because I also had

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