[BNM] Brighton the next Silicon Valley?

[Raj Anand]

Hmm regarding the investors (VC Capital). I think its a chicken egg
situation. With any investor I went to last year. The first question they
asked me was "How much have you put in?".


I guess initially it requires bootstrapping your initial resources and then
they jump in to take it to the next level. Typically in the Growth Phase or
the Ramp up phase.

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Raj




On 2/19/07, Andy Budd <andy at clearleft.com> wrote:
>
> > Well, it's been said before, though I think I frame it as Brighton
> > being the closest thing the UK has to San Francisco, rather than the
> > Valley. The Valley is a flat souless plan of former fruit-farms turned
> > into office real estate. You want that for Brighton?
>
>
> Definitely not SF, but I'd say Brighton is the closest thing we have
> to Austin. We've got a great little web community here, with an
> excellent mailing list, an increasing number of organised meet-ups
> and some excellent (ahem) web design conferences. We've also got a
> burgeoning games industry, which will welcome the addition on firms
> like Linden Labs. However what we don't have is the infrastructure.
> Brighton is small so it's difficult to find good office space and
> qualified staff. Also there isn't the VC money floating around the UK
> (let alone Brighton) so star-ups are mostly self funded and pretty
> short on the ground.
>
>
> Yours
>
> Andy Budd
> Creative Director, Clearleft Ltd
> +44 (0)845 838 6163
> +44 (0)7880 63 66 77
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