We all have a dream of setting up the next big technology company. Some of us actually venture out and setup our company, in most cases, into an existing market with a disruptive technology. Few of us actually makes the sales to warrant a look by the incumbents. Our topic for this month's discussion is:
How do you launch a disruptive technology into an existing market dominated by a handful...
[read more] We all have a dream of setting up the next big technology company. Some of us actually venture out and setup our company, in most cases, into an existing market with a disruptive technology. Few of us actually makes the sales to warrant a look by the incumbents. Our topic for this month's discussion is:
How do you launch a disruptive technology into an existing market dominated by a handful of players with significant capital and market intelligence than you have?
Anish will discuss how Yuuguu was launched into a market dominated by Webex and GoToMeeting, early trials with premium pricing model and how they are now taking market share from incumbents. Kevin will discuss the humble beginnings of Free Agent Central as a Scottish startup working with Dennis Howlett to gain an understanding of the market in early days to signing a landmark deal with Iris to becoming a major threat to Sage. Alasdair who founded Transitive and exited to IBM will speak about building disruptive technologies and marketing it globally.
Anish Kapoor - Co-Founder and CEO, Yuuguu.com
Anish was co-founder of TeleCity PLC, the pioneering European collocation and data centre service provider. He was a Non-Executive Director for Jacamar, an online gaming infrastructure provider and a Non-Executive Director for Xware, a mobile gaming software developer. In addition he has held various executive roles at EXML Systems a mobile software applications developer.
Kevin McCallum - Business Development Director, Free Agent Central
A long time ago Kevin worked in banking, back in the days when it was still socially acceptable to admit it, but for the last 10 years has been involved with business and accounting software, albeit the old-fashioned kind. He’s particularly interested in building partnerships and business relationships with positive and clever people, and firmly believes that technology should make people’s lives easier, not more complicated.
Alasdair Rawsthorne - Founder, Transitive (exited to IBM)
Alasdair founded Transitive, a University spin-out company, with his research group to commercialize dynamic binary translation software developed using a new set of challenging targets. Over the period 2000-2008, Transitive grew from a dream to over 100 employees; operated as a multinational with headquarters in Sillicon Valley, raised over $30M in venture capital investment, contributed a key technology to Apple's migration to using Intel CPUs in Macintosh computers, saw 16 million copies of software delivered to end-users, and was acquired by IBM.
Programme:
18:00 - 18:30 Registration and networking
18:30 - 18:45 Update by Techcelerate, Partners and Sponsors
18:45 - 19:45 Speeches
19:45 - 20:00 Break
20:00 - 20:40 Panel Discussion
20:40 - 21:00 Startup4Slaughter or StartupParade
From 21:00 onwards - KRO Bar across the road
Disclaimer: The format may change to suit the speakers and presenting companies. The event will be filmed and photographs taken for display on this website and elsewhere.
Fees:
£35 + VAT = £42.00 - standard ticket
£25 + VAT = £30.00 - Early Bird
£20 + VAT = £24.00 - Full time student (you must not be in paid employment)
FREE - Members (must register - just let us know your username)
