Matthew Ogston: Entrepreneur & Advisor » Blog http://ogston.com Founder of JobPage, PageDo, part time hacker and freelance online marketing consultant Thu, 17 May 2012 09:30:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 My tweets from the last week (< 2012-05-17) http://ogston.com/blog/2012/05/my-tweets-from-the-last-week-2012-05-17/ http://ogston.com/blog/2012/05/my-tweets-from-the-last-week-2012-05-17/#comments Thu, 17 May 2012 09:30:00 +0000 Matthew Ogston http://ogston.com/blog/2012/05/my-tweets-from-the-last-week-2012-05-17/

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  • How to Optimize Your Mobile Site for Search Engines http://t.co/lgqvouG9 ->
  • Off to the OnRec Recruitment Awards dinner ->
  • "Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong" – Peter T Mcintyre #confidence ->
  • "With anything you do in life, expect to have a 25% success rate."
    Auren Hoffman ->
  • How to Optimize Your Business For Local Search and Social Marketing http://t.co/4cmoGNed ->
  • JobPage is moving… to Google Campus http://t.co/hamdMz0i ->
  • A look inside Mozilla’s new London co-working space http://t.co/xBcj35DE – Where did this spring up from? ->
  • 51 Creative Business Cards That Will Make You Look Twice – http://t.co/gqCru6GP ->
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  • Is the version of Outlook on Mac better (and quicker) than Postbox? The latter crawls with 5 x mailboxes + 4,000 emails. ->
  • How to Get Bloggers to Reply to Your Comments http://t.co/OozCNwIH ->
  • It almost feels like summer today. Can't wait for the real thing ->
  • The Marketer’s Guide to the New Facebook Pages http://t.co/vVKmZUjC ->
  • The weekend is now officially over. Looking forward to a busy week. Significant @job_page release out later this week! ->
  • @RGA Hi, how was the debate? in reply to RGA ->
  • @RGA interesting idea, but who says the first commenter will take ownership? Surely that's the author's job. in reply to RGA ->
  • It feels like summer is finally almost here. What a beautiful day. Glad I've managed to take a few hours out to spend with friends ->
  • I'm hoping today is going to be a lovely day for walking ->
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Charlotte Forbes recently got in touch with me about a research project that she’s doing to better understand the highs and lows of funding startups. I said that i’d be happy to help out as I support the idea of more structured research in this area.

For my own startup, JobPage, we are not pro-actively looked for external funding, but I have done so in the past for PageDo. Startup funding is glamourised far too much and the reality is that it’s hard, very hard, to get your startup funded.

Charlotte is doing research on two angel investors Raj Ramanandi and Lee Pickrell looking to invest at seed level as part of a round of 50-250k in mobile and consumer web companies this year.

She’s researching the London early stage investment scene – the good, bad and ugly. Looking at what startups go through when looking for and making decisions on investors (whether to look for investment, what their experiences have been when looking etc).

So far she’s interviewed 45 startups and but she needs a few more to complete the research, preferably those who have raised seed rounds (50-500k).

All participants will get her analysis at the end, plus intro’s to any contacts that might be useful. The more startups, the more valuable the research will be so she needs all the help you can!

Interview topics are:

  • company history,
  • experience of events,
  • financial challenges and general challenges.

Interviews are between 30-45 mins, and are accompanied by a short questionnaire and probably a shareable infographic.

If you can help, please contact Charlotte directly at charlotte@number1seed.co.uk

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