It's Dotcom Boom-Time Again - but Can Soho Really Be the New Silicon Valley?
Spectator, The; London › August 19, 2009
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Conversation turns to comparing London with Silicon Valley as a place to start a dotcom business. Experience is mixed. Michael Acton Smith launched Firebox -- a site where you can buy boys' toys and technophile gadgets and games -- in the heat of the last boom, and was able to raise finance relatively easily. He has also secured venture capital funding for his second company Mind Candy, which produces alternative reality games.
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It's Dotcom Boom-Time Again - but Can Soho Really Be the New Silicon Valley?
The heady days of 1999 are back.
Once again it's fashionable to work for an internet start-up, even more so if you're a part of the so-called 'Web 2.0' bonanza.(For those who may worry that they've missed some kind of software update, Web 2.0 refers to second-generation internet developments based around user-generat...See the full content of this document
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