Tales from the inside: the story of Europe

Event report: "Tales from the inside:
the story of Europe's largest web 2.0 sale"

An evening with Felix Miller, Co-founder and CEO, Last.fm,
and Martin Stiksel, Co-founder and CCO, Last.fm,
in conversation with Rory Cellan-Jones, BBC Technology Correspondent

Thanks to all who came along to our most recent London event to hear Martin and Felix speak at an event for the first time since Last.fm's sale to CBS earlier this year, and helped to make the evening what Jemima Kiss (The Guardian) described as "a treat". For more news on the event and and Last.fm also check out Mike Butcher's report in read on TechCrunch UK & Ireland.

Check out Second Chance Tuesday's Flickr account for more photos.

Podcast: preview of the evening

Podcast: attendee interviews

Podcast: fireside chat

Podcast: audience questions

Podcast: full evening podcast

The guest list for Second Chance Tuesday included:

Organisations: ClipStar, Crowdstorm Ltd., Emap, Film4, Glasses Direct, Joost, LastMile Communications Ltd., Lastminute, RESULT, Skype, Taptu., Trutap, Yahoo!, and Zubka Ltd.

Investors: 3i, Amadeus Capital Partners Ltd, Amadeus Seed Fund, Bridges Ventures, Creative Capital Fund, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs International, Index Ventures, London Seed Capital, London Technology Fund, Merrill Lynch, Oxford Capital Partners, Seraphim Capital, and UBS.

Next event & mailing list

Our next event will be in November, and we'll be announcing details shortly. If you have friends or colleagues who would like to receive invites to future events, please do invite them to join the mailing list by following the links in the right hand-side menu.

We look forward to seeing you in November.

With warm wishes,
Michael Smith, Judith Clegg
Mark Littlewood, Andrea zur Strassen and the Second Chance Tuesday Team

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