Archive for July, 2007
OpenBusiness Guide v1.0 online
After having tinkered with it for some time version 1.0 of our OpenBusiness Guide is now online over at iCommons.Thannks to Becky Hogge and George South for bringing it together. Thanks also to everybody who has contributed over More »
- 30th Jul, 2007
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Finding your feet in an Internet business
Webconverger went into business when users were asking for their homepage to be configured on static Webconverger Web kiosk LiveCDs. Though I told people how they could do it themselves, with Debian Live, they insisted I did it. As it takes a bit of time and effort, I naturally charged for this More »
- 30th Jul, 2007
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MiniBar 27th of July Update
Here a quick update for MiniBar. The free Free Beer, brewed at St Austell brewery in Cornwall is on its way and we have two additional presenters: Seedcamp is presented by Paul Birch, co-founder of Bebo 'Where More »
- 26th Jul, 2007
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New Book on ‘Free’ (Business)
We here at OpenBusiness have been interested in how you can be very, very, very 'open' and make a business. Quite often this means giving stuff away for FREE. Now Chris Anderson - author of the 'Long Tail' book - has announced his More »
- 19th Jul, 2007
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Virtual World Forum London
London will see its first virtual world forum later this year. Its interesting to see how not only main stream virtual worlds have become, but also how much of a serious business they are. If you look at the program for this More »
- 17th Jul, 2007
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Free Data – Make Better Business Models
Watch this very cool video over at O'Reilly Radar on the cool things that can be done with government data and why and how the business models need to be upgraded.... More »
- 11th Jul, 2007
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FREE BEER for Cornwall (and MiniBar)
MiniBar always has some free beer, but we never have had FREE BEER? To popularize Richard Stallman's famous phrase (and have some fun) the Danish arts collective Superflex designed FREE BEER - its not free as in gratis, but free as in More »
- 9th Jul, 2007
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Artist Press Kit
Right now artists are having to pay for a press kit. The most popular press kit system is attached to a network of venues. The artist has to pay to be connected to these venues. The artist pays the owner of the venue to listen to the music and the More »
- 8th Jul, 2007
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Seedcamp
OpenBusiness has followed for a while YCombinator's approach to VC investment and wondererd why nobody in Europe is doing something similar. In a nutshell: Give a small amount of cash, provide lots of mentoring and networking opportunities, take some equity and hope for More »
- 3rd Jul, 2007
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MiniBar 27th July – Summer Special
MiniBar is back with lots of geeky fun and fandango - for more details c our special MiniBar page. If you want to come, present, play, buy some drinks pls email us via info at openbusiness.cc More »
- 3rd Jul, 2007
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