A completely cloudless London. A rare event to see with sunglasses. You wake up surprised and very happy. Going to Hyde Park, you realize that in a few hours you have the TechCrunch London. Arrived at the Café de Paris, go down the stairs and… bye bye sun. So you begin to hate a little Mike Butcher ( 
).
Welcome to the darkness. Few lights, a projector: 2 speeches, 12 pitches, and then 2 other speeches. Wil Harris (Channel Flip) was particularly funny with his doubts about the investment situation in UK. Can you imagine Italy?! So the winner of the pitch competition: Festbuzz. And … go! The hunt for investors! Everyone turned on Shiva-mode: four arms to deliver quickly as business cards as possible. While you’re looking for an investor to assault, you meet startup’s founders, exchanging advices. We also met SeedCamp finalists: among all the co-founder of VouChaCha.com, Ben Brown, is a very cool guy.
Now your elevator pitch is a tantra to repeat. In November Globepinners.com will be online and so we’re talking about it with “big fishes”. Good fishing: many of them expressed their interest. After 8 hours without eating, we decided to go back to the surface. It’s 11 p.m. and all around us is only darkness. We vampires can continue our investors hunting. Now London is done … next destination: San Francisco?
p.s.: Special thanks to Stefano (TheStartup.eu), who has published on facebook the photos of the event: in one of them, one of co-founders came out damned ugly. Thanks also to Johanna, Sebastian and Dario for the several drinks. Every meeting with investors is a hard proof for our liver.
Author: Alex Contarin
