March 2013
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US Trip Recap: Day 12 (Thursday 7th of March)
After a long day of mentoring, the final day of the US trip included three visits to some of the most successful startups in San Francisco: Airbnb, Dropbox and Square.
At Airbnb, Dan Hill, co-founder of Crashpadder (a Seedcamp company that was acquired by Airbnb) gave us a tour of their unique offices and told us more about Airbnb’s approach to building product and his experience from being...
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We're at Square HQ!
http://4sq.com/WNBChd
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We're at Dropbox HQ!
http://4sq.com/15AyDhH
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We're at Airbnb HQ!
http://4sq.com/iNv15A
US Trip Recap: Day 11 (Wednesday 6th of March)
The second to last day of the US trip also included the fourth (and last) mentoring day, this time in San Francisco at the offices of Microsoft. We had a great turn-out of mentors from the San Francisco area and plenty of familiar faces from previous Seedcamp companies that had moved to San Francisco who came back to advise the current Seedcamp teams. We would like to thank Microsoft for letting...
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We're at Index Ventures!
http://4sq.com/nUVhcZ
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We're at O'Reilly Alpha Tech Ventures!
http://4sq.com/3LJ820
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We're at Microsoft!
http://4sq.com/6JpJKw
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US Trip Recap: Day 10 (Tuesday 5th of March)
After receiving constructive feedback on the pitches from the team at 500 Startups the night before, we spent the following morning pitching even more VCs.
To start the day, we met up with Jeff Clavier from SoftTechVC, Ash Patel from Morado Venture Partners and Nick Adams from AME Cloud Ventures for breakfast and pitching, in their great space in Palo Alto.
From breakfast to the boardroom, we...
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We're at SoundCloud Inc.!
http://4sq.com/qnxy7f
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We're at NEA!
http://4sq.com/8F7NRz
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We're at Greylock Partners!
http://4sq.com/bU2le1
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We're at Ame Cloud Ventures!
http://4sq.com/OophRJ
US Trip Recap: Day 9 (Monday 4th of March)
After a (somewhat) relaxing weekend of catching up with the people we had met the week before, we kicked off the last week of the US trip in downtown San Francisco with a full program put together by Twitter.
The teams learnt about Twitter’s approach to business development, market development, engineering recruiting, user growth and the new features they are working on from Jason...
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We're at 500 Startups!
http://4sq.com/9z0kQx
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We're at a9.com!
http://4sq.com/bsnb11
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We're at AngelList!
http://4sq.com/YiHEd9
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We're at Twitter HQ!
http://4sq.com/svmPXj