Remember the Web Mission, back in April? Backed by UK Trade & Industry, the mission took 20 of our brightest and best tech startups over to Silicon Valley for a networking-packed schedule of meetings, dinners, conferences and general profile raising.
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Next on the tour is a similar endeavour led by digital networkers Chinwag; this time 25 companies get to go to Web 2.0 in New York this September and 40 to the excellent SXSW in Austin, next March.
This time, the trip is open for all applicants and a venerable list of judges (including ye olde Mike TechCrunch UK Butcher) will be choosing who goes. Yep, it's a big jolly overseas, and yep, it is a bit frustrating that we still have to head west to get some decent profile. But these events are far more international these days, and if there's one thing we know about our real life digital network it's that there's no substitute for meeting face to face.
