Entrepreneur Country Insiders

Wednesday, 04 March 2009 14:09

Your Chance to Help Build the next Skype, Spinvox or Monitise

Imagine it’s December 2003. You are a post graduate student invited to download Skype because you’ve been identified as someone who can influence the development of a brand new service that has yet to be exposed to the mass-market. Skype values your opinion and asks you about your experience of using an early version of a service that will slash your phone bills by allowing you make free calls on the web.

You immediately start to save money calling your friends and family, but your feedback also shows that you understand the revolutionary power of the P2P VoIP application. As an early adopter you are invited to a social event where you meet Skype founder Niklas Zennstrom and subsequently are offered a job at Skype - one of a handful of people in a young, dynamic company dedicated to changing the world of telecommunications. Less than two action-packed years later, your options vest when Skype is acquired by eBay in September 2005. At just 24, you are a multi-millionaire and use your experience and new-found wealth to start investing in start-ups, building a new generation of entrepreneurs.

Entrepreneur Country Insiders

Pure fantasy? We don’t think so. We’re Ariadne Capital, a global investment and advisory firm and one of the companies behind some of Europe’s most successful recent start-ups – including Skype, SpinVox and Monitise. The early team of five people at Skype included four Ariadne Capital Executives in Residence.

We can’t promise that this will happen again. But we are building a group of influencers called the 'Entrepreneur Country Insiders' with a programme that will put you in front of today’s and tomorrow’s most exciting entrepreneurs and applications.

As an Insider, you will receive exclusive email invitations approximately once a month to access new services and provide feedback that will shape the technologies and services of tomorrow.

Insider Promise

What we will do

Give you early access to new services, the entrepreneurs behind them and Insiders like yourself.

What you will do

Give us your unabashed view of what’s good, what’s bad, what works, what doesn’t and how it could be improved.

It's that simple!

Becoming an Insider
Interested? Here’s what you need to do!

Follow this link to register: Entrepreneur Country Insiders Registration

Membership is free.

All participation is voluntary; you can pick and chose in which projects you want to be involved.

You can unsubscribe whenever you like.

All data received from your registrations or surveys is kept confidential. We will never share our database list and information with any third party, or try to sell you something.

We’re looking forward to working with you!

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