{"id":1500,"date":"2011-06-27T13:16:57","date_gmt":"2011-06-27T12:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/t-machine.org\/?p=1500"},"modified":"2011-06-27T13:16:57","modified_gmt":"2011-06-27T12:16:57","slug":"notes-of-interest-from-nesta-games-funding-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/2011\/06\/27\/notes-of-interest-from-nesta-games-funding-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Notes of interest from NESTA games-funding event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nesta.org.uk\/assets\/events\/investing_in_video_games\/\">&#8220;NESTA: Investing in Video Games&#8221;<\/a>) was last month, but I&#8217;ve been too busy to write it up till now.<\/p>\n<p>The most interesting things that I noticed at the event:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Index is interested in spending SEED money on games companies [Ben Holmes]\n<li>Index can now &#8220;write cheques&#8221; up to $1m in the UK &#8220;in 1.5 weeks&#8221;; typically they&#8217;re writing them for $200k-$500k &#8211; they&#8217;ve done 20 of those in past 18 months [Ben Holmes]\n<li>Tony Pearce won-over Turner as an investor by saying he&#8217;d be bringing them detailed analytics on the social gaming industry [Tony Pearce]\n<li>None of the panel mentioned <a href=\"http:\/\/venturehacks.com\/\">VentureHacks<\/a>, even when it was the obvious answer to some of the questions from the audience. I had to grab the microphone and do it myself.\n<\/ul>\n<p> I felt a bit mean, hijacking their Q&#038;A session. But, really &#8230; startups *need to know* about VH. It&#8217;s wrong for investment\/government events to ignore it, or pretend it doesn&#8217;t exist; in the long run, everyone benefits from the existence and spread of VentureHacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This (&#8220;NESTA: Investing in Video Games&#8221;) was last month, but I&#8217;ve been too busy to write it up till now. The most interesting things that I noticed at the event: Index is interested in spending SEED money on games companies [Ben Holmes] Index can now &#8220;write cheques&#8221; up to $1m in the UK &#8220;in 1.5 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,14,61,46],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}