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Published 07/07/2009 by Silicon Valley Watcher - reporting on the busin ...


UK Startups Look For Funding And Escape From Echo Chamber

I've been meeting a lot of UK entrepreneurs as part of the Traveling Geeks trip and I'm hearing a lot of the same things US startups tell me. They are looking for funding and also fed up with seeing the same people at their meetups.

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...told me: "We're thinking of relocating some of our team to San Francisco so that we can be closer to the VC firms. Several VC firms have told us that they love our product but we are not over there. And so they wouldn't consider investing." That was a common...
...told me: "I've started going to fewer events because I wasn't getting much value from them. And everyone's business ideas started sounding very similar. I'd rather spend some time developing some original ideas." The UK entrepreneurs...

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