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I had an amazing evening at the Starting up in IT panel discussion, followed\r\nby Innis & Gunn beer tasting on Thursday evening. It was held in the shiny\r\nMMS Quartermile One offices. (When I'm rich, I want a flat on\r\nQuartermile. A turret-y one, not a glass one. Or\r\nmaybe both).
\r\nI felt chronically under-dressed when I arrived - a majority were suited - but\r\neveryone was really friendly and forthcoming with advice.
\r\nAnyway, speaking of being rich. There were lots of interesting business-wise\r\npeople to talk to at this event, including CEO of Skyscanner Gareth Williams,\r\nand Craig Anderson of Pentech Ventures. Plus lawyers specialising in things\r\nlike IP, employment, company formation, from MMS. The panel discussion was\r\nenlightening; I'll go through some highlights raw notes...
Funding
\r\nGetting wise
\r\nEmployees
\r\nI heard about some really interesting ventures, too, like Identity\r\nArtworks which looks like they're making\r\na _huge _difference to young people, and have really inspiring stories to\r\ntell. Plus ShareIn, soon launching an equity\r\ncrowdfunding platform. Veeerrry interesting...
\r\nThe panel was followed by beer tasting hosted by Innis & Gunn. I don't drink,\r\nbut I would have sipped along to be sociable. However, it turned out the beer\r\nwasn't vegetarian (filtered through\r\nisinglass). This, at least, meant\r\nmore for everyone else on my table. MMS had come up with a written seating\r\nplan, by the way, that separated people who had arrived together. Forced\r\nnetworking! Excellent.
\r\nThis served as great chance for Steve and I to independently practice our\r\nGeoLit elevator pitching, and I think we'd got it down to perfection by the\r\nend of the evening. Extremely encouragingly, we were consistently met with\r\nenthusiasm and responses like "that's an amazing idea!". We left pretty\r\nbuzzing.
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