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Sun 14 March - Shane said
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Sun 14 March - Shane said
To get the best value for your hard-earned buck while visiting WWI sites, choose the perfect base or hotel near the WWI spots like Cloth Hall and the Menin Gate at Ypres. With that in mind, the Ambrosia hotel is the perfect base: In Flanders Fields museum and St. George's Memorial Church are within walking distance; Tyne Cot Cemetery and the John Mc Crae Site are in the immediate neighbourhood. You can enjoy free internet access while staying at the hotel. Belgian Beers available! Visit them and know more of what they can offer at hotel ieper http://www.ambrosiahotel.be/?p=location
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What is Startup Weekend?
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Anthony -
Mon 25 February 15.00
Clear
Basically, the idea is to get together a bunch of internet-related entrepreneurs and wannabes, to conceive, plan and implement an internet startup in one weekend. That's right, some 56 hours (i think we had).
Goal is to obviousely produce some company that is worth billion$ of Pounds, but unfortuately, that has never happened.
I just thought attending such an event would be very fruitful both from a meeting people as well as from a getting to know methodology and startup culture point of view.
In hindsight, i must say, that it was a great experience, but the lack of structure or leadership combined with the unclear concept of our startup (we decided on an ethical consumer portal named aLittleBitBetter.co.uk to help its users make their consumption, and thus live, a little bit better) were a bit of a hindrance.
I surely learned a lot of new and interesting things, especially regarding the online business of advertising, which will surely provide useful in the future.
But it was definatly great to see a bunch of motivated people get together to 'start something', which is not too different from what nick and me are trying to do! And did i mention that i flew in from berlin, just for this event? I did.
check out www.alittlebitbetter.co.uk as well as www.startupweekend.com for more info.
Greetings to all fellow SWLers, if you read this!
Nick -
Mon 07 January 23.00
At Adil's, we caught up for a bit before setting up an agenda for our extended meeting, with points we wanted to cover before we finally departed.
Anthony -
Tue 26 February 03.00
Clear
Met Gita, Francesco and Natasha again, as well as Zaki and Wai (friend of Gitas), who actually happened to be Zakis ex-schoolmate from Dulwich! What a coincidence!
So we had dinner at Four seasons on Bayswater road, after queueing for like 40 minutes, but it was good. very good food actually.
Zaki came all decorated with a ridiculously funny moustache, re-earning him his old nickname 'Moustacha'. After not having seen him for a longer period of time, it was a pleasant shock to see that something had changed about him. Even though he claims that it is a bet...
Seeing Francesco again was great! I've always enjoyed his company and interesting conversations, not only because he's a diplomat's child and therefore well travelled, but also because he's got interesting points of view on many issues. I still remember and often quote my favourite of his statements, which he made when we were debating the UK and other education systems with Laura (Nottingham) back in PGP, Singapore. Refusing to accept that learning something at school even though she does not need it for her job, Francesco replied to Laura, in a last attempt to bring her to reason: 'It's education. You die less stupid!'. Priceless!
Gita is good as ever, happy clappy with a northern accent. Was great to see her again, and oh my go, she's such a monkey!
Anthony -
Thu 10 January 17.00
Clear
So how did it all start one might ask. Well, the story would start sometime during out senior years at Imperial.
On a normal day, I casually dropped by Nick's 'office' on Level 10 in the EE department to catch up and see his project in action. Back then, i was on my year abroad at ETH Zurich, and visited London for a bit. So i asked Nick what his plans were for his time 'after Imperial', and he actually had quite good plans - to go to Silicon Valley and work for one of those Big ones - Google, Apple, etc. Would have been great, i'm sure, but i was able to propose something irresistable.
So, both of us aren't really into those big multinational high flying and over paying companies from the financial industry, in fact, we enjoy life and all its weird and wonderful facets too much to spend it in some office working for someone else. Yes, you need money to enjoy life (although Nick would probably disagree), but at the same time, you need life to enjoy your money (and that's quite difficult one to challenge). Either way, working for someone else, motivated by money and glamour, is not exactly an ideal we'd like to follow.
Also, both of us see similar potential and impact of webapplications or Software as a Service, and also passionately follow what's going on on the internet, sillicon valley and elsewhere. The glamourous stories of Internet Startups did not pass us unnoticed, of course.
Finally, we've actually been working together quite successfully (i would say) when we produced the yearbook for our year at Imperial together with Tony 'Anand' 'Shit - i just slept for 26hours' Wu.
These were are the three key ingredients (similar goals for life, similar passion about technology, good past experience) that made me, more spontaneous than not, proposition to Nick to 'do something'. I can't remember my exact words, but i think they were along the lines of 'why don't we just go to some country where it's cheaper to live, and spend some time there working on ideas and webapplications. U know, all we'll need are our laptops and we can have coconuts on the beach in Thailand'. 'Garage is so last Millenium! Startups should be started from a Beach!'. Or something like that. The theme is clear, low cost country to be able to life off the little money we've saved, exciting life away from Britain or Europe and free roaming spirits meeting webapplications.
Conveniently, we both (think we) are trying to be doers, rather than talkers. I've spend 4 years at uni (and before actually) talking about what we or one should or could do, been talking to my father, uncles, friends their parents, etc, but never actually did anything worth writing a newspaper article about, and that's annoying. We're old enough now, and i guess it's our turn to come up with ideas and turn them into innovations, as generations of entrepreneurs have done before us (just where is this spirit going, in the face of glamourous high paying jobs that are effectively not too much different to what FW Taylor did to his employees at his plant - where was that again...
Of course, this idea resonated well with Nick, whos actually just had a great first experience of south east asia, Thailand, with the IC Cricket team. I think his words were 'Yeah... Why Not... Hmm, yeah... I like this!' (*whispering initially, gradually sounding more ascertive* - as he always does)
And that's it, i think, that's the beginning of our Mahrati Adventure, according to Anthony. Did i forget anything important...
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