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<\/a><\/p>\nAlan Patrick is the co-founder of Broadsight<\/a>, a group of people who work in the area of Media 2.0, meaning that they focus on market intelligence, strategy and systems development across the whole multi-media ecosystem. Broadsight has consulted to many of the major digital-media players in Europe and has helped start or turn around a number of startups. They have also developed innovative technology for a number of clients. Alan also writes the well regarded Broadstuff blog<\/a> on technology development. He has also developed the \u2018Broadstuff Bubble-o-Meter\u2019 tracking the current Social Media bubble\u2019s evolution, which has been picked up by other technology blogs and the Guardian.<\/p>\n He has a broad range of specialities, ranging from IT to Management, from Consulting to Simulation. During the #SXSC3 Alan will be talking about the issues that arise when starting-up a business such as business models and planning, partner networks and risk management. If you want to know more about Alan, be sure to check out his Twitter<\/a> and be sure to come along to the Creative Digifest 2013! <\/p>\n “What do you think is the biggest challenge in setting up an online business?” <\/p>\n Differentiation – aka making it out of the Darwinian start-up morass.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat is your #1 tip for digital start-ups?\u201d<\/p>\n Most overnight successes have been around a long time!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Merel van Dijke Alan Patrick is the co-founder of Broadsight, a group of people who work in the area of Media 2.0, meaning that they focus on market intelligence, strategy and systems development across the whole multi-media ecosystem. Broadsight has consulted to many of the major digital-media players in Europe and has helped start or turn around a number …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":73492,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[426509],"tags":[426510],"class_list":["post-3461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creative-digifest-3","tag-sxsc3","column","threecol"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p44UOk-TP","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/73492"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3506,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3461\/revisions\/3506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}