Cambridge Cluster

Image by Getty Images via DaylifeIt is hard work blogging about the Cambridge Enterprise Conference as there is so little information on-line unlike TechCrunch and Demo.  At TechCrunch, which I could join on the video feed, I could see that many people had there laptops switched on.  At CEC9 there were few laptops and the only person with a laptop, a professional blogger who sells his posts to news sites, was asked to sit at the back and not disturb the peace and quiet with his clicking.  I guess either everyone clicks or no one!  It is suprising that so many delegates at CEC9 could be out of touch with their business for the day.

The companies giving elevator pitches, billed as the “Tigers of tomorrow”were:

– Axon Automotive. Could not find their website but try the article on the Eden Project site

– Camfridge; the future of refrigeration

– Eco-Mats; a natural base for the future

– E-Stack: the website could not be found so look here

– Northwood Implants; under their trade name of EarScaffold, reduces prominent ears

– Sonar Link; is invisible on the Norfolk Network site

– The Intelligent Book; a Cambridge University research project

I am not sure how Scoble would react to  these websites.  But they do show that they are very early stage companies, really no more than ideas, and that they are all technology companies; no social network ideas here.

Do they all have a business plan or are they not at that stage?  Are there teams all rowing together?