Projects

 

"you have to have a product to sell"

content is key

 

ideas development

 

Understanding the market is vital

Distribution ... is important

investment in business courses AND projects before pre development

 

Brockering partnerships

 

Maverick

"can't apply for funds as owned company"

but real benefit to the region

sense of responsbility(spell)

regional currency - they make this and that

place for experience

should be a way to support large organisations -

 

*Norway model of investing big companies

 

 

Seed funding

DEVELOPMENT -

look like a VC

 

Investment propostition.

Job creation

 

market testing

proving it works

 

We don't do regional representation

 

created in birmingham - is good at regional representaion

getting people to use blogs and empowering wmidlands

improves skills

getting voices out there.

 

train people on tools

making people aware

 

LONG TERM

improving skills

new media literacy

 

digital production architects

"great ideas"

 

connect WM with production - India/China - Outsourced operations

 

FrontPage

 

 

Games

Websites

Businesses

films

tv programms

widgets

software

 

 

funding

args

non trad pr

some amount of money to go to events

small pots of money to do what they want with

not too presriptive

money to do what you want to do things with

feasibitily - sub 15K

project funding big whack

 

1st dev money

events

matt marsh et al

deve ideas

training

80K dev investment

1m project

 

web companies

internationally connected

prodcution from overseas

 

production consultants

money shouldn't be spent in region unless has to

fundamentally flawed