Archive for June, 2011

Pizza Express wants you! Extras wanted for video this Friday!

We’re looking for some fun volunteers to be an extra in a video our sister site Newspepper is making for Pizza Express this Friday 3rd June in the morning in a central London location.

In return you’ll get a complimentary meal for two at Pizza Express and a claim to your 5 mins of internet fame. It’s an exciting new project, so if you think you are available please contact Chloe Nicholls, Project Manager via chloenicholls@newspepper.com to register and we’ll send more details.

Deadline to apply is 2pm Thursday 2nd June 2011.

Thanks for your interest!

 

TechPitch4.5 discovers the next hottest European startup!


Last week, we covered TechPitch4.5 – which is an evening pitch event created by 2Pears, in order to showcase some of the latest tech startups, which have been taking part in the UKTI pitch-training workshops in the past 6 months.

Guest speakers included Eric van der Kleij, CEO of Tech City Investment Organisation and the panel of judges was represented by Danvers Baillieu,co-founder of www.bootlaw.com, Megumi Ikeda, executive director at Comcast Interactive Capital (CIC), Amine Laouedj, associate at goetzpartners Corporate Finance, Glenn Shoosmith, founder of Bookingbug, Zuzanna Pasierbinska-Wilson, founder of Silicon Stilettos & VP Marketing at Huddle and Grace Yusuf, founder and CEO of KyuBid.com

During the evening the following startups competed in a quick fire pitch rally (presentations kept to a strict 3 min time limit);

Clickslide

Dancetothis

Findababysitter.com

Gigaboxx

Internavenue,

Marketinvoice

Minutebox

Plancentric

Toolsofdirecting

Watch the video above to find out who was the winner for TechPitch4.5 May 2011!