Every little bit helps if you are a start up looking for market opportunities. Launchpad Europe has a methodology and a proposition.
If you can overlook the jargon about methodologies and propositions, and you are a technology and telecoms vendor, Launchpad Europe might be able to help you "to develop channel partnerships and sales revenues in the UK and mainland Europe".
Unfortunately, we have an aversion to fancy web sites that don't let you "copy and paste" text making it hard to pass on the details. Perhaps this is a way of avoiding any more jibes about their jargon. We'll stick with this bit from their press release where we read that their aim is "to give vendors a slice of this European action for a relatively small slice of the usual country start-up costs".
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