Wednesday 22 July 2009 2:31:14 pm

In January the team at 14XC met with award winning Swiss Entrepreneurs in Zurich, arguably the Silicon Valley of Europe. They had all returned recently from a networking event at MIT in the US. We met with a founder of Doodle.com, the EU internet giant and event scheduler. Some 6 months earlier we had won a national award for Right Booker a search engine that lets customers book services such as doctors and electricians online. (This is due for a major update in select neighbourhoods in London and Dublin in September following BETA 1.2 and feedback process from customers and service providers held in March.)

There has been much discussion on this board regarding the influence successful entrepreneurs can have on start-ups. As the founders of newly emerging Start-Ups we can say that yes this has had a powerful effect indeed on our confidence and focus. The opposite is also true. We were invited last year to present to MBA students the Right Booker concept - we prefaced the presentation by saying “we’re just starting, so we’re in the same boat”. However, the process of speaking to others and verbalising the concept was equally valuable. Hopefully they took something positive from the experience!

The Founder of Doodle* and others at the event resonated with the same message that we hear on the videos presented throughout the GE site: listen to all the different opinions and then find your own path.

(*We emailed him on Saturday to gain his permission before writing this post, he gave us the go ahead with the preface that he didn't think he derserved all the kudos. We remain enormously appreciative.)

*** UPDATE: 14XC Unveils Investor Interface www.14xc.com/investor.html ***

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