The infamous and omnipresent Techcrunch has covered Rummble as part of the WebMission08 trip to San Francisco. The trip was a resounding success, with some great companies on show. It was great not only to meet all the relevant valley people but also spend a week with fellow founders chewing the fat about building businesses and creating relationships.
There is a real buzz beginning to stir in the UK startup community and events/trips like this can only serve to help that process. I’m going to write a post on my personal blog sometime soon about the UK’s startup tech scene – but meanwhile check out Mike Butchers post and the great companies that I spent a week in the valley with.
Rummble is one of only 3 companies to win an exhibition package worth thousands of pounds, to attend MEX (the Mobile Experience conference in London, 27th-28th May 2008). The competition was run to grant innovative startups the chance to attend The MEX agenda is based around it’s 10 point Manifesto for enhancing the mobile experience.
PMN who run MEX, say “We bring together 100 of the leading thinkers in mobile telecoms and challenge them to define the cutting edge of user experience through 2 days of learning, debate and networking.” Rummble will be there in the middle of the action, thanks to the scholarship award program.
Rummble has been selected to present it’s Mobile Social application (as part of a consortium proposal) to the top tier sponsors of the Olympic games London 2012 on May 15th. The consortium comprising of TTP, Deadline Communications, Global Reach and Rummble are proposing the ‘Games Buddy’; a connected, portable media device that can assist attendees of the Games from the moment they arrive. The proposal is only one of six proposals to be selected from the Eastern Region.
This selection gives Rummble an incredible opportunity to have it’s Mobile Social Network application integral to the London 2012 Olympics.
Sphred, the startups ranking site, this week reports Rummble as one of its top 5 startups. SPhred is a place where users, specially new start-ups, can showcase their websites and other sphred users can either support that idea by adding a ‘spread’ or by adding a ‘shred’ if they don’t like the idea. The more SP|hred a site has the more visibility it gets.
Thank you to those Sphreders’ who gave us the thumbs up! We’re doing our best to improve and act on feedback. More news coming soon…!
We have added a basic integration of Fire Eagle to Rummble. If you have a Fire Eagle account (its in beta at present) you can allow Rummble to set your Fire Eagle location when you set your location on the Rummble web service. You can also update your location manually from Fire Eagle.
When we get time we will provide a more seamless bi-directional integration with Fire Eagle over the coming months, ready for Fire Eagle’s public release.
They say no PR is bad PR; well lets test the theory. Something a bit special in all the wrong ways.
After a fantastic BBQ at Jim Bruckmaster’s place (CEO Craiglist) we went to Brian Solise’s house for another BBQ, reuniting some of the SXSW crowd and other local Valley luminaries.
En route back, with John Havens from BlogTalkRadio in the boot (seen here on the right, actually IN the trunk) we officially Premiered the first ever Bootblog (or TrunkBlog if you’re of an American persuasion…!) a short snippet in video below; we’ll publish the real audio blog as soon as we get the URL from John…
It’s been a fantastic first couple of days here in the Valley; I wont rewrite what many others have already explained, but instead link to some photos and posts below:
Rummble is on its way to the Valley on Web Mission – alongside 19 other startups such as the Huddle boys and TrustedPlaces. Andrew our CEO looks forward to reporting back on the progress (and parties!)
Meanwhile, startup.co.uk has kicked off with the first of many blog posts to cover the shenanigans … and Mike Butcher will be covering us for Techcrunch and Paul Carr has started an unofficial blog here…
Webmission 2008 took Rummble and 19 other UK Web 2.0 companies to San Francisco to explore new opportunities for growth with the key people in Silicon Valley.The successful companies were selected by a panel including Mike Butcher from TechCrunch and legendary investor and financier Doug Richard. More than 100 companies applied for places and after a rigorous selection process Rummble was one of the 20 to board the plane.
Silicon Valley is known for its culture of openness, idea-sharing, optimism and ready funding of the right and solid ideas. Many of the venture capitalists there, however, are keener to fund their investments closer to home than overseas.Not that its a rule of thumb, its just more difficult to monitor a comapny the further away it is.The eco-system in the Valley is more geared towards start ups. The density of ventures in the Bay Area is much greater than in the UK.
Webmission set out to bring the best of Britain’s entrepreneurial talent to the Valley. An agenda was laid out for all 20 companies to visit many of the key players in the industry including a trip to the Googleplex, Oracle and the Web 2.0 expo, amongst a whole host of others.
The trip brought a number of opportunities to Rummble and forged many business relationships that would otherwise have taken a lot longer to develop. Going to the valley en-masse, as 20 British startup companies, was also beneficialfor all involved, forging many relationships that might otherwise not have happened had it not been for the trip.
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The infamous and omnipresent Techcrunch has covered Rummble as part of the WebMission08 trip to San Francisco. The trip was a resounding success, with some great companies on show. It was great not only to meet all the relevant valley people but also spend a week with fellow founders chewing the fat about building businesses and creating relationships.
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