Monthly Archives: September 2010

Seedcamp: 5 hours to go ’til we pitch

Posted on September 16, 2010 by

It’s 8.20 am in London. At 2 pm we make our last pitch of the week to the Seedcamp board of investors. We have five minutes to present, followed by ten minutes of Q&A. In that time, we have to … Continue reading →

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Why you should enter entrepreneurship competitions

Posted on September 10, 2010 by

Cognician has entered three competitions now: The Enablis Business Launchpad Competition, which is run by FNB; The Cape Town Activa Entrepreneurship Competition; and Seedcamp. We weren’t recognised in the Enablis competition, but we did much better in the Cape Town … Continue reading →

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Cognician is going to Seedcamp Week in London

Posted on September 9, 2010 by

We are thrilled to finally be able to announce our attendance at Seedcamp Week in London from 13 to 17 September. The other teams have some incredible businesses and we can’t wait to meet with the founders. This is like … Continue reading →

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The cog we made for Clay Shirky

Posted on September 7, 2010 by

At the Tech4Africa conference I had the pleasure of meeting Clay Shirky and demonstrating Cognician to him. He was impressed with Cognician and particularly keen to think about how he could use it with his students at NYU – perhaps … Continue reading →

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Cognician is a go!

Posted on September 3, 2010 by

Shhhh! The new Cognician.com has just gone live! [Cue miniature vuvuzela.] We’re happy to finally make the site public and, more importantly, we are proud to allow the Cognician app to say, “Hello world!” We’ll be working with our beta testers … Continue reading →

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