Meeting successfully booked

Having been disappointed yesterday with the response to meeting requests, I now have four booked for the CCMission and at least two more lined up. It would be really useful to know who we were likely to be presenting to and who else we were likely to meet. I always like to have some knowledge beforehand.

Organising Meetings

With only two weeks to go to the Clean and Cool Mission in San Francisco it's proving more difficult than exected to set up the meetings I was hoping to organise. Certainly the VCs that I have contacted have mostly been unavailable at the times we have free. However I have managed to arrange a meeting with our preferred Investment Bankers and our JV partners in JuiceMatrix where we are developing a remarkable new power and data distribution system for office furniture.

I am currently tidying up the Juice business plan to coordinate with that of our other JV, JuiceWorks, which is looking to raise funds to develop the market for LumiNet, the North American version of Juice's j-Net system technology for LED lighting. This makes for an interesting, if slightly complicated, story so have to be clear in its explanation to potential investors on both sides of the Atlantic.

Launch Event

Interesting evening at the launch event at County Hall - met with most of the delegates and supporting team. Having been a little sceptical beforehand the Mission looks to be well organised and should substantially raise the profile of Juice along with the other 19 companies.

As this is the first time I've ever blogged please accept my apologies for the content - hopefully it will improve in time. I hope to capture the essence of the mission for those "back at the ranch" developing products as well as anyone interested in how business support can work in the UK. This will obviously be moderated by the need for commercial confidentiality but I'll endeavour to make it interesting.