Category Archives: birminghamuk

I’m blogging my new startup

To coincide with my thirtieth birthday I received the exciting news that I have just received £50,000 of seed funding for my new business idea.
I am very happy and excited!
The funding has come about after about nine months work producing a series of prototypes, doing market analysis and research, then putting together an 80 page [...]

By stef | Posted March 31, 2008 in birminghamuk, startup | Comments (6)

Why doesn’t Birmingham have wifi like Austin?

A conversation with Pete Ashton at SXSW about Birmingham’s woefully inadequate and probably very expensive wifi solution, compared to the ‘everyone just make their connections free’ model that Austin has.
It’s excellent here - if Birmingham wants to be a ‘digital’ city it needs to get with the programme.

 
icon for podpress  WIFI in Austin: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
By stef | Posted March 9, 2008 in Birmingham, birminghamuk | Comments (6)

SXSWi 2008 First Impressions

I’ve spent a lot of my time recording my conversations with people at SXSWi and I’ll be posting a few of them here (I can’t find anywhere that’s more appropriate - Viddler for audio anyone?)
To kick off, here are some first impressions from some of the other SXSWM types.

 
icon for podpress  Dom Murphy's First Impressions: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 
icon for podpress  Pete Ashton's First Impressions: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 
icon for podpress  Joanna Geary's First Impressions: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
By stef | Posted March 9, 2008 in SXSW, birminghamuk, blogging, podcast, sxsw2008, sxswi2008 | Comments (0)

Pete gets his Guardian mee-ja award (ish)

In short - Pete gets or kinda doesn’t get an award, Popworld’s Miquita drops the N-word into her speech, Pete invades the stage and we perhaps wish we’d gone to SXSW a day early instead.
Congrats to Pete for his win at last night’s Guardian MEGA awards.
It was a proper ‘gala’ event, complete with champagne boat [...]

By stef | Posted March 8, 2008 in Birmingham, awards, birminghamuk, createdinbirmingham, creative, guardian, peteashton, upyerbrum | Comments (11)

Creative Republic Launch Video

Video from the launch of Creative Republic, with speeches from Helga Henry and Pete Ashton as well as shots from the night and a few interviews with Creative Republic board members.
Oh - and don’t forget to join us if you like what you hear. Next event coming soon…
Video filmed and produced by The Adhere Creative [...]

By stef | Posted March 4, 2008 in Birmingham, birminghamuk, creative, creativerepublic, cultural | Comments (1)