Philipp Moehring

Category: London

  • On the road again – hope to see some friends on the way

    We are taking some of the Seedcamp winners of 2010 and 2011 on our now annual road show to the USA in March 2011. With a total of 14 companies, we will tour both East and West Coast, and end up at SXSW to meet up with the rest of the international tech scene.

    We will start off the trip on the east coast, visiting two of the most important tech hubs, New York and Boston, where we will also host 2 Seedcamp-format mentoring events to mix and mingle with local entrepreneurs, investors, and product experts. The New York event will be hosted by our friends and sponsors at Google. The Boston event is going to take place at the Hubspot offices (with a lot of help by our friends from Atlas Ventures).

    After a weekend break in Tahoe, we will spend the second week in the Valley, visiting, amongst others, Facebook, 500startups, the Google headquarters, various VCs, and meet the tech scene of the valley. We will host mentoring events at Google and our friends at i/o ventures. We will also go to the Northwest to visit two giants of tech – we will see both Microsoft and Amazon Headquarters, to get inspired by what was built in only the last decades.

    The grand finale will be at SXSW in Austin, Texas, where we will probably end up exhausted, happy, and with pockets full of business cards – a Seedcamp on the road, with loads of new friends and contacts to be made.

    Our Seedcamp US trip

    I am about to leave on a two week whirlwind of a trip to the US, where we’ll take the Seedcamp winners of 2010 and 2011 to meet local investors and entrepreneurs. My first trip to the US in a long time, and my first trip to the West Coast/Valley ever. I’m beyond excited.

    Besides meeting some friends in New York and Boston, I will see some London folks in Tahoe and some of the Berlin and Lausanne connections in Austin at SXSW. If you are somewhere close, let me know, so we can meet up!

  • Ein Post, den ich eh schreiben wollte.

    Je suis dans le news.

    Momentan sehe ich die folgenden Makro-Trends, ohne auf einzelnes einzugehen: Online-Offline ist ein Thema, das immer besser umgesetzt wird, wobei sich Startups auf die Nischen konzentrieren müssen, die nicht von den Big Boys wie Google und Groupon angegangen werden. Big Data in allen Bereichen wird immer wichtiger, und erlaubt noch viel Innovation. Die Software”-isierung” von klassischen Technologien wird fortschreiten, und alles geht in die Cloud.

    Mein Interview auf Seedfinance.de: Philipp Möhring von Seedcamp: “Entscheidend ist die ökonomische Logik und internationale Skalierbarkeit!”.

  • Come and work with me

    I have the best job in the world, and you can have some of that, too! We are looking for two people (Intern and a General hands-on person) at Seedcamp in London. You will have more fun and you will be more stoked by the cool stuff we are working on than anywhere else, so get in touch and get yourself some.

    Both positions are based in London – feel free to reach out and apply by emailing Philipp. Please include information about your background, experience, your work with startups and tech companies, and everything else you feel is relevant for the job. The job descriptions for the general management and internship positions should tell you more about our requirements.

    via seedcamp: We are growing – and looking for you!

    SRSLY, ask any questions if you are interested. You will be working directly with me, keeping Seedcamp running day and night, organizing cool events, and working with the best people in the European tech scene.

    Can’t be better if you are dabbling your feet in E’ship and are passionate about start ups.

  • My presentation at Imperial College last week

    I had the chance to present Seedcamp at the annual IED business plan competition at Imperial College last week. This competition brings together MBA students from Imperial and designers and others from schools such as the Royal College of Arts to develop a business idea and take it to market. The quality of pitches was very high – also the real world applicability of most businesses was very apparent.

    We saw teams that presented mobile health insurance (through an MVNO setting) in Africa, a coffee machine taking unroasted beans as an input (dying for a sample machine!), cardboard wheels to lug heavy objects (hello ikea), plants and mechanics combined to provide air conditioning (the charismatic winning team), and smart metering technology (focused on design and user experience). No internet businesses, but they listened to my presentation anyways:

    Presentation at Imperial College, July 2010

  • So how’s life in London?

    That’s what I’ve been asked at least a million times during the last weeks. I am super busy at the new job, as I am organizing mini Seedcamp London, which is taking place next week, from start to finish. It feels great – I’ve never been busier, but I’ve also never done so many cool things at once. Despite working with people from literally all over the world (Seedcamp Johannesburg and more internationals to come), this town alone is offering more than I ever thought.

    I moved into an awesome apartment with Nico, my old housemate from college. Islington, our neighbourhood, is packed with great places to go, be it for coffee, beers, or food. My commute is relatively painless (12 mins tube or 40 mins bus), I know a lot of people from college and grad school here, the sun is shining (and it’s below 30), and life is surprisingly not all that expensive. So, all is good. I will put up some pics and hopefully be blogging more, thanks for staying loyal!

  • There is currently no service due to lack of tubes.

    Actually, series of tubes. The internets will make an appearance in our place soon, which is when there will be more life in this.

    I’ve been busy at work, moving in, getting set up, meeting people – London is giving me an incredible welcome, I am very happy here. You’ve got to love it.

    You’ve Got to Love London from Alex Silver on Vimeo. HT/Roitsch

  • It suddenly got quiet here

    That’s mainly because I am pretty busy preparing the move to London and all that’s associated with it. There’s a lot to do and it seems to be more every day – but it’s a lot of fun moving abroad again.

    We (Nicolas, my former and future housemate ) found a beautiful flat in Islington, a really nice neighborhood in the northeastern part of London. Not only will the commute be manageable, by a lucky coincidence a lot of my London friends also live pretty close. Nicolas is already on the ground in London, so the apartment hunt was very easy for me (“Oh, you found a place. Awesome.”). I understand that this was supposed to be how I get to know the city a bit (and see a lot of other people’s bathrooms), but what can I do…

    This coming weekend I will be in London to set up my life in the Kingdom and, more importantly, adjust to left sided traffic. I am still quite certain that this is the biggest safety hazard I will encounter, so hold your thumbs for me on this one.