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Slides for a lunch with the Danish Ministry of Urban & Rural Affairs on January 21st 2014.

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South of the river

South bank

West London

North London

Fitzrovia Soho

East London

The City

Tech City

Canary Wharf

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Old Street Station

Overground Line extension (2010)

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Old Street Station

Overground Line extension (2010)

2008: £150 for a desk £18/sq ft

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Old Street Station

Moo

2008: Silicon Roundabout

S&W

Tinker.it

Ketlai Dopplr

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2008: Matt Biddulph (@mattb) CTO of Dopplr acquired by Nokia in 2010.

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2008: Moo.com (tiny business cards with Flickr pictures) hosts in their offices: •  Dopplr •  Ketlai •  Ben Terrett & Russell Davies

Tinker.it is first UK distributor of the Arduino platform. Pachube is launched.

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2010: Dopplr was acquired by Nokia Ketlai starts to work on gov.uk beta Ben Terrett & Russell Davies start RIG London Tinker.it closes

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2012: Ketlai starts to work on gov.uk beta In 2013 Ben Terrett & Russell Davies become Lead architects of the government’s online presence.

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2012: Moo.com hosts Tweetdeck in their offices on Scrutton St Tweetdeck is acquired for £25M. Pachube is acquired by LogMeIn for £15M.

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2012: Lanyrd move to Rivington Studios above the Foundry an old building which was meant to be demolished and turned into a hotel in 2011.

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2013: Gov.uk wins Design of the Year award.

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2013: Lanyrd is acquired by Eventbrite and has now moved to SF. Tom Insam their developer used to work for Dopplr.

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2014: IOT meetup is 2.5K members. Monthly gatherings in Shoreditch since 2011 sponsored by Xively.

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Old Street Station

Overground Line extension (2010)

2014: £300 for a desk £37/sq ft

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