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Announcing the Seedcamp Week 2008 Mentors!

11.09.2008

At the heart of Seedcamp is our network of advisors. Yesterday we announced the advisors who, with a bit of luck (and many frantic emails), will soon be making their way to UCL in London for Seedcamp Week 2008.

So, (drum roll please), here is the list of advisors attending Seedcamp Week 2008.

The mentoring process is an invaluable opportunity for the Seedcamp 22 to learn from the collective wisdom of these eminent experts. Meeting in small groups, the advisors give one-on-one guidance to the teams on all aspects of growing their seed of a business.

Last year, this mentoring process was a huge success, and the title of Seedcamp Advisor has become a respected one. (Perhaps as a result) the list of this year’s advisors is a long one, with over 220 individuals confirmed! let me walk you through some line-up highlights:

Founders & CEOs
Michael Birch, fresh from Bebo’s $850m sale to AOL
• Marten Mickos, CEO of MySQL
• Kevin Cornils, CEO of Buy.at
Jyri Engestrom, founder of Helsinki based Jaiku, now acquired by Google
Lorenz Bogaert, CEO of Netlog, an Alexa top 100 site.
Joe Cohen, Seatwave founder and CEO
Lukasz Gadowski, Spreadshirt founder
• Martin Stiskel, Last.fm co-founder and CEO
Richard Moross founder at CEO at Moo
WAYN founders, Peter and Jerome

Product Experts
Taavet Hinrikus, Director of Product Strategy at Skype
Matt Ogle, leads web development at Last.fm
Adam Seifer, founder of Alexa top 20 site Fotolog
Ryan Carson, Carsonified
Matt Jones, founder of Dopplr
Menno van Slooten, from eBuddy

Marketing Experts
• Michael Arrington, TechCrunch
Jason Goodman, Albion Founding Partner
Donna Sokolsky, Spark PR CEO
• Obi Felten, Google UK, Head of Consumer Marketing
• Blake Chandlee, UK commercial director of Facebook
Brent Hoberman, Mydeco.com and founder of Lastminute.com
• Jamie Kantrowitz, MySpace – SVP, Marketing & Content International

Technical Experts
Jaan Tallin, Skype lead system architect
Mike Shaver, VP of Engineering at Mozilla
Matt Biddulph, Dopplr
James Aylett, Tartarus
Stefan Magdalinski, Moo CTO
Christian Heilmann at Yahoo
Simon Willison, co-creator of Django
Michael Jackson, ex Director of Ops at Skype
Martin Buhr, Amazon Web Services

Investment Experts
Charles Grimsdale, Eden Ventures
Aydin Senkut, Felicis Ventures, Founder
Robin Klein, TAG
Andrew Weissman, Betaworks
Anil Hansjee, Google
Tal Barnoach, Speed Up
• Danny Rimer, Partner at Index Ventures
Fred Destin, Atlas Venture

As you can see, Seedcamp Week 2008 will be populated with some amazing figures from the European tech world. But, it won’t just be the Seedcamp 22 who will benefit in the sage advice of these mentors. Log on to Seedcamp.com all next week for videos, pictures, articles and blogs giving you all the highlights of Seedcamp Week 2008.

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