Who should I meet in London this week? You know, bloggers, journalists, angels, VCs, pundits, CEOs and founders?

This is a networking question...and not one that involves any electricity other than your own personality. Here's my opinion, having worked for a firm that was started almost entirely with VC and also having been employed by and and created a spinoff/startup with an absentee owner whose years of experience are far beyond my age It really depends what you want to get out of the conference. I looked at the conference's website, openangelforum.com/2010/08/31/london-oct... : "Our Mission: The Open Angel Forum (OAF) is dedicated to providing entrepreneurs with access to the angel investor community based solely on merit (and without fees).

Additionally, we strive to build collaboration between angel investors and to inspire high-net worth individuals to become angels. " Apparently you fall into one of three categories: * Angels * Entrepreneurs * Service Providers If it's in as an entrepreneur and want sheer PR, publicity and promotions, bloggers are essentially micro-journalists and micro-pundits, so find the bloggers, journalists & pundits. From everything I've seen online, I can already guess that no matter what you do, someone will be commenting on you.

If you're seeking or want invest VC, I'd think the Venture Capitalists, the Angel Investors or the Founders would be best. Definitely spend some time with CEOs at some point. Birds of a feather.It can't hurt.

I had to look up London Founders--it's a structured VC group (as opposed to the old informal VC system) that can't bad to be associated with: Here's how they describe themselves: "The Founders Club was formed by a group of 15 senior venture capitalists to enable select entrepreneurs to use their equity to become Limited Partners or “investors� In a VC fund forming a powerful club. We align the interests of influential CEOs, founders, angels and VCs which results in bigger exits and a unique form of entrepreneurship.

Joining takes a minimal amount of your time and the process is dead simple. Joining is free. You only pay at the time of your exit.

You get paid on every exit to come from the other 30 to 50 companies. Our selection committee is comprised of some of the largest, most senior and active VCs in the US, Europe and Israel. We are a club.

We share ideas, tap into powerful global contact networks, recruit teams, raise cash, start companies and build great ventures. " And here's TechCrunch's take on it: "The Founders Club, essentially a vehicle for startup founders to invest their own equity in other startups, has added to its pot by pulling in an angel investment round from some high-profile investors. These include Edmund Truell (formely of Duke Street Capital, Hambro European Ventures and the former chairman of the British Venture Capital Association), Jon Moulton (Better Capital, Alchemy Partners, Apax), André Jaeggi (a funds of funds veteran), telecoms chief Chris Burke (BlackBerry & Vodafone) and a smattering of other CEOs and VCs have made “undisclosed personal cash investments�.

An additional portion of equity in the Club has been reserved for new members. The club invest in tech and cleantech companies. Andrew Romans, founder and general partner, says they have created a formalized process for the normally informal one where existing CEOs and VCs invest in other startups.

That’s the simple way of putting it. In practice the fund enables CEOs and founders of companies to “use their shares and stock options to become limited partner investors� , essentially betting a small percentage of their personal future equity through investing in a wider portfolio than just the startup that they are involved with.

You only get into the club if you are a VC-backed entrepreneur.To join you agree to invest a small percentage of your future cash exit into a fund in return for ownership in the fund and membership in the club. There is no cash cost to join. Entrepreneurs only invest equity (virtually) into the funds.

Members only pay at the time of their exit. Members are paid on every exit to come from the other 20 to 30 companies in each fund. It sounds a little odd, an one wonders why a VC would let their CEO invest their future value in this way.

However, Romans says VCs allow the CEOs and management teams of the companies they’ve invested in to participate in the club (see here for the 13 General Partners and senior VCs that support the club) because the legal agreement is between the founder/CEO and The Founders Club. However, I daresay there are one or two VCs out there who might not be so keen, but it’s clear they have plenty of enthusiasts. But clearly there are networking opportunities here, networking CEOs between the US and Europe, plus, when it is time to sell a company, members can access the Club to try and interest other big firms to create some heat around a deal.

That’s the theory at least. The Founders Club includes VCs and advisors in Silicon Valley, New York, Boston, London, Paris, Stockholm, Munich and Tel Aviv.

Me, of course! I'd like to bend your ear for a minute or two.

Jason welcome to London but sorry, I think you might be a bit out of luck. Firstly if you wanted to see our future King, the Prince of Wales, he has just gone off to New Delhi to open the Commonwealth Games so he is not available in London and Her Majesty the Queen says she is "too busy" to go with him and has upset the President of India so She is reportedly "indisposed" and unavailable for an audience with you right now either. If you want to see our public school prefect Prime Minister David Cameron and his new bed mate Nick Clegg, David is having his annual conference at Birmingham, but the horrible BBC technicians have decided to go on strike to whinge about their gold plated pensions being cut back by BBC management trying to save cash, so you can't see him either!

You can't get around London either because the tube trains are on strike called by our newest commie called Crow working under orders of another new commie called "Ed the Red", who has just been elected Leader of the Opposition now reprogrammed to go back to the ways of Neil Kinnock which kept them in their longest ever period of opposition in the days of Mrs Thatcher ruling with her handbag, and even Ed the Red's brother has walked out on him to sulk about it all. As for CEOs until last week there was a very famous lady's man called Tony Hayward very much loved all over North America, who was the boss of B.P. Oil and particularly highly regarded for his involvement in the Gulf of Mexico oil leakage. But he has just been given the official order of the boot from his job and replaced by somebody with an American accent called Robert Dudley, so he is no longer available any more either!

Nor are there too many famous bankers around. Our best known creator of the credit Crunch and world depression multiplier called "Fred the Shred", who used to be the big boss of the now taxpayer owned Royal Bank of Scotland, is now residing in a fortress on southern Spain after being given an ultra enormous pension to enjoy himself spending by an awfully generous Minister in the last government called Lord Mynas as a reward for being such a failure, all paid for by the delighted UK taxpayers to assist their suffering and misery during the trillions of pounds cuts in public expenditure about to be announced by the UK government to pay back the gigantic deficit caused by Fred the Shred and his mates. London is now overfilled by immigrants, EU workers from the former Soviet Bloc and people seeking political asylum from all over the world, none of whom speak more than a smattering of English so you will not find many Brits therein any more either.

Cockney humour is a thing of the past, the present Mayor of London called Boris talks excessively Etonian and the one cuddly Ken is not due back in power for a year or two yet. The political bloggers are all in hiding after one of them made blogging comments about UK Foreign Secretary William Hague supposedly being "gay", which turned out to be malicious fiction and has enraged the establishment and upset his wife following her inability to increase the world population being highlighted by the media, following this blogger's blunder. You could have seen our Parliament in session by visiting Westminster and watching infamous Speaker John Burcow shouting "Order Order" at the hoolgans therein, but that too has been temporarily stopped so that the various parties can go and get drunk at their Party Conferences instead of doing their job as MPs, so that option is out of operation too.

Looks like you are destined for a miserable boring time, and unable to meet or observe any of the people you so wanted to. How about taking a trip to Tirana, Albania or Tierra Del Fuego. You might find more of interest going on there right now?

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