{"id":38,"date":"2008-05-14T23:15:13","date_gmt":"2008-05-14T23:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/z303.org\/?p=38"},"modified":"2008-05-14T23:15:13","modified_gmt":"2008-05-14T23:15:13","slug":"bristol-and-startups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.z303.org\/?p=38","title":{"rendered":"Bristol and Startups"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is just an archived version of a thread on twitter a few people had about startups in the UK and Bristol in particular. This mostly is so I have an easy to link to version for a braindump of some more links and thought on the subject<\/a>.<\/p>\n

johnbradford<\/a>: Giant Were-Rabbit to convince commuters to set up business in the South West http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/4cfkj2<\/a> *sigh* marketing gone mad?<\/p>\n

t1mmyb<\/a>: @johnbradford<\/a> there’s a bigger issue of London-centricity throughout politics and business that a marketing gimmick won’t solve<\/p>\n

Z303<\/a>: @t1mmyb<\/a> @johnbradford<\/a> Reminded me of a post by Tom Coates that in part asked why Bristol did not have more startups http:\/\/moourl.com\/iv1r9<\/a><\/p>\n

t1mmyb<\/a>: @Z303<\/a> \ud83d\ude15 at comment by kawt<\/a> “Bristol thinks too much of itself and is too arrogant to survive in a business that changes hour by hour.”<\/p>\n

paparatti<\/a>: @Z303<\/a> – hasn’t the UK only really just started producing great start ups now? And those were in London.<\/p>\n

johnbradford<\/a>: @t1mmyb<\/a> not sure I’d agree with kawt <\/a>on that – if anything Bristol needs be a bit more self-promoting and joined up<\/p>\n

Z303<\/a>: @t1mmyb<\/a> Just read it, Bristol being right wing! most people I meet are left wing or centrist, maybe if I moved in different circles<\/p>\n

Z303<\/a> @paparatti<\/a> I guess the big one is last.fm<\/a>, Someone had a good post about how the BBC should be helping like it did with the BBC Micro<\/p>\n

mikedunn<\/a>: @paparatti<\/a> Hence I’m always surprised Twitter hasn’t taken off more in the UK- we’ve been obesessed with our mobiles for years here.<\/p>\n

paparatti<\/a>: @Z303<\/a> – re: right wing, I think it’s a 50\/50 split between racist bigots and hippies in this city.<\/p>\n

johnbradford<\/a>: have to agree with @z303<\/a> perhaps if we were *more* right wing and bolshi we’d have more Valley style start-ups \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

johnbradford<\/a>: or at least commercially minded rather than hippy lifestyle – commercial hippies?<\/p>\n

Z303<\/a>: @paparatti<\/a> That would explain why we get strange mixes<\/p>\n

Z303<\/a>: @johnbradford<\/a> Should have used quotes, I was saying that find kawt’s comment does not ring true of the people I know here<\/p>\n

Z303<\/a>: @johnbradford<\/a> And being bolshi is nothing to do with being left or right wing, more to believing in something<\/p>\n

johnbradford<\/a>: @z303<\/a> do you find Brizzol folks collaborative or commercially driven enough (ignoring political leanings) to start-up business rather than lifestyles?<\/p>\n

johnbradford<\/a>: @Z303<\/a> I know some very cool and creative Bristol companies but they’re aren’t putting themselves on the growth curve you see in the US<\/p>\n

Z303<\/a>: @johnbradford<\/a> commercial but things like fairtrade\/green issues being a larger driver<\/p>\n

johnbradford<\/a>: @Z303<\/a> FrankWater<\/a> being a great example I guess<\/p>\n

Z303<\/a>: @johnbradford<\/a> Another thought UK has always been better a small bespoke places, more 37 signals<\/a> than yahoo!<\/a><\/p>\n

samharding<\/a>: @johnbradford<\/a> that’s bonkers<\/p>\n

johnbradford<\/a>: @Z303<\/a> true, but can you build a bespoke service that scales? Ning<\/a>? Mobile apps?<\/p>\n

johnbradford<\/a>: It’ll be interesting to see if the Pervasive Studio<\/a> delivers anything scalable\/sustainable<\/p>\n

Z303<\/a>: @johnbradford<\/a> perhaps niche would have been a better word, I was also thinking about race car vs. road cars, lots of F1 work is UK based<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is just an archived version of a thread on twitter a few people had about startups in the UK and Bristol in particular. This mostly is so I have an easy to link to version for a braindump of some more links and thought on the subject. johnbradford: Giant Were-Rabbit to convince commuters to …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_block_theme_hide_title":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-38","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-startups","8":"without-featured-image"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Zoe","author_link":"https:\/\/www.z303.org\/?author=1"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.z303.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.z303.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.z303.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.z303.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.z303.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.z303.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.z303.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.z303.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.z303.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}