Comments on: Top tech startups in Europe?

By: Marko

Marko — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 10:14:37 +0000

thanks for mentioning us. greetings from berlin

By: Manoj Ranaweera

Manoj Ranaweera — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 02:00:01 +0000

Cannot see any great startups from the North West. I thought Yuuguu deserve to be in the list (so would edocr).

By: Andrew J Scott

Andrew J Scott — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 17:46:15 +0000

@Startup Guru

IMHO, that is a rather naive conclusion to draw about awards and initiatives that highlight innovation and startups, especially for those that do not have the budget to employ expensive PR firms (or indeed ANY PR firm) to do their promotion and raise their profile. What you think about Red Herring is up to you, but if you have ever run a startup you should be aware that being successful is as much being visible and achieving recognition in the industry as it is just sitting behind a closed door developing your product.

By: John

John — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 16:21:42 +0000

AwayPhone & ShipServ are both UK companies…..

By: Phil Wiffen

Phil Wiffen — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:58:35 +0000

DisplayLink is a UK company! It’s where we do all our R&D

By: Mike Butcher

Mike Butcher — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:09:46 +0000

@Stuart Day – To be honest, the Herring’s site was not at all clear about whether these were ‘winners’ or not. Thanks for enlightening us!

@Rebecca Kemp – Have added Trampoline to the Brits list, apologies.

By: Startup Guru

Startup Guru — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:03:14 +0000

Start-ups that want / care about this list are doomed anyway.
Don’t you have better things to do than be listed.

Go build your business and sale sale sale. This is all air like red herring itself.

By: Tara Kelly

Tara Kelly — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 20:07:13 +0000

@Alex
Thanks – I appreciate the thought but we’re not on the list because we didn’t even apply.

Here’s the selection criteria:
http://www.herringevents.com/europe08/faq.html

I’ll mark the calendar for next year though so we can give it a shot. Good luck to all those who made the list!

By: 90's dotcommer

90's dotcommer — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:16:16 +0000

Momac isn’t a startup, it’s been going for ages.

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:57:16 +0000

… what was the Red Herring criteria?

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:49:19 +0000

I’m surprised PassPack isn’t in the list. Especially considering that it was chosen as a Webware 100 finalists (and there are only 20 european companies among all the 300 finalists). What was your selection criteria?

By: Rebecca Kemp

Rebecca Kemp — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:47:55 +0000

Trampoline’s UK too!

By: Alicia Navarro

Alicia Navarro — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:18:11 +0000

Did you have to apply to get on the list, ie. self-nominations?

Congrats to those on the list!

By: Stuart Day

Stuart Day — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:34:47 +0000

This isn’t the list of the winners, just the list of the 200 finalists. The winners are not announced for another 2 weeks

Sorry Dan & Nick but we got on there. It’s taken us 2 years so maybe next year guys.

By: Dan Field

Dan Field — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:25:37 +0000

Don’t worry Nick… looks like they have missed at least two top UK tech startups off their list then!

By: nick halstead

nick halstead — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:59:32 +0000

bah humbug! I’ll go sulk in a corner now

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