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What should a collaboration space be?

Friday, May 30th, 2008

I went to last night’s Geekdinner with Moo, which was pretty interesting. My friend Mitch and his wife were there. I was enthusing about my recent thinking about startup environments especially after reading Paul Graham’s short essay on Cities.
Mitch is a great person to bounce stuff off, especially if it has some relevance to innovation. […]

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What is a startup environment?

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

Yahoo have their London office on South East tip of Soho. Sometimes I like to get a coffee in one of the better Soho coffee shops. While I can’t complain about the coffee (just the opposite actually) sometimes I’m a little disappointed about the lack of a startup hacker community that is available to me. […]

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The Geek affinity with Green

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

This week I’m going to two Green events, a networking party run by AMEE and GeeKyoto. Given that I am such a treehugging (carbon neutral), duck-squeezing (vegan), person I’ve been wondering what it is that makes some geeks care so much about green.
My simple conclusion is that geeks feel like they are empowered to make […]

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