Comments on: ScribbleSheet writes its own obituary

By: DomRoberts

DomRoberts — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 11:49:55 +0000

It always seems that the American companies get a lot more funding for a lot poorer ideas than happens over here in the UK. There appears to be daily updates about companies in the states receiving millions of dollars of funding for sites that offer very little. Slide have been values at $500 million for what appears to be a bunch of facebook widgets.

By: willphipps

willphipps — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:51:29 +0000

Sorry to hear that, John. A sad day for UK start ups – blog friends gone as well. Best of luck on your next project – at least you learnt a load of PHP and probably a lot of other stuff. I’d take a bit of time off, then get back onto another idea. Amazing what a break can do.

Keep on truckin!!

By: Jof

Jof — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:46:46 +0000

You’re not wrong: we’re learning shed-loads! As I noted on Nic Brisbourne’s blog, when Benjie and I joined i-together in Oct last year we’d only been in the internet space for a few months! It’s been one hell of a ride, but I can tell you it’s an awful lot better than working as a corporate whore as I had been until Q2 last year.
What’s clear is that we need a few generations of this sort of stuff to happen in order for the UK scene to be really strong and well-connected. For example, this time last year I didn’t even know who Mike Butcher was – now, by contrast, I’m an occasionally-recognized hanger-on at all sorts of tech events. But getting to know “the right people” is still really slow over here…

By: David Langer

David Langer — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:38:53 +0000

I’ve known John since he was working at Accenture, before the days of Scribblesheet, and have been impressed by how he’s developed over the past 7 months.

The thing us Brits need to emphasise more with projects like ScribbleSheet and Blog Friends is the amount people are learning.

Right now, the pooled knowledge of young entrepreneurs in the British ecosystem is growing fast as a result of these sort of experiences.

As the knowledge and contacts from the Seedcamp 6 and British YC companies is propogating out, I believe that young entrepreneurs here are quickly maturing to become more on a par with our US counterparts.

Let’s have a more positive attitude to failure guys. What did they learn? Are they doing another startup? How can we provide more support to early-stage teams like this in the future?

By: D

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:36:17 +0000

Learn from your mistakes, move on and come back bigger and better next time.
I really like your post http://www.scribblesheet.co.uk/heyday/ where you show setting up, growing and closing down of the company.

By: JohnofScribbleSheet

JohnofScribbleSheet — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:21:29 +0000

Thanks Kyle such is life….I’ve written a little requiem about scribblesheet and citizen journalism over here if your interested.

http://johnndege.com/2008/03/31/the-problem-with-citizen-journalism/

By: Kyle MacRae

Kyle MacRae — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:06:27 +0000

Ach, bad luck, John. Nevermind – move on, ever onwards.