Now the real challenge begins…

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My esteemed colleagues were voted the best startup at Seedcamp in Berlin last Friday.  As always with startups it seems like one step forward and ten steps back!  Well last Friday we made a huge step forward with our GroupDNA and TickerTXT project.

SeedCamp has a great concept of how votes are cast, which is that each authorised attendee has a vote.  Sadly I was unable to attend due to committments elsewhere butwe now go forward to the next stage in September, and that I will attend.  Between now, and then there is much work to do.

So I guess no change there!

Motorbikes

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We bought a motorbike yesterday.  This is a Yamaha YBR 125cc in Yamaha Blue.  Ideally we wanted black but settled on this since it was more important to us to “get going” rather than our first choice which was black.  When we get the bike we want (after passing driving tests) then we intend to trade-up.

If David Davis was my MP would I break a covenant?

I have never voted Tory in my life, but the stand that David Davis has made may just change my mind – if I lived in his constituency. The paranoia of today’s society for increasing anti-terrorist measures is a self-fulfilling prophesy that was used by Bush to gain power, maintain power and now that his era is almost over – he regrets.

The UK lags behind the US. Let us learn from that regret and not make the same mistakes.