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If you're within striking distance of Sheffield tonight, (1st November 2007), one of the most interesting and indeed potentially far-reaching projects I've heard about of late - Project Sahara - is meeting to discuss its future.
Sahara is a move to provide a platform and infrastructure to help start-ups take their projects to the next level. It is the brainchild of Lee Strafford - who built, ran and sold plusnet - and friends, and the aim is to provide solid business advice, sympathetic surroundings in the heart of Academic institutions and expert mentoring, in order to help new tech businesses avoid the pitfalls that account for the majority of start-ups, and to incubate rapid application development from the first idea right through to the creation of a fully-formed, fully-functioning, industry standard iteration. Focusing at first on three of the centres of industry in the North - Sheffield, Leeds and Manchester - Sahara will bring together the techies, the entrepreneurs and the Universities on either side of the Pennines, and, instead of working independently as traditionally they would have done, getting them to work for their mutual benefit to create and market innovation, pooling their skill sets and facilities to set-up a world class hub of knowledge and enterprise in a region famed for innovation - this was, after all, the heartland of the industrial revolution. Also, interestingly, the online conversation goes on within Facebook, which shows how that particular network can be adopted for legitimate business purposes:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=5608288897
Date: Thursday, November 1, 2007
Time: 6:45pm - 9:00pm
Location: The Forum Cafe Bar, Devonshire Street, Sheffield
Sahara are planning a meeting in Manchester soon, and a team-up at BarCamp Leeds on the 17th November. This is one worth getting involved in!
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