Mike Butcher (FRSA) is the European Editor of TechCrunch. Mike is also co-founder and shareholder of TechHub (@TechHub), a co-working space/service/community with several locations in Europe. TechHub aims to bring European technology entrepreneurs and investors together in a club and co-working environment.
A former grunge/thrash rock drummer, Mike became a long time journalist, and has since written for UK national newspapers and magazines including The Financial Times, The Guardian, The Times, The Daily Telegraph and The New Statesman. He is a former editor of New Media Age magazine, the leading new media weekly in the UK, and the European edition of The Industry Standard magazine. Since 1996 he has launched or re-launched numerous media web sites and in 2000 he was nominated as NetMedia’s European Internet Journalist of the Year. In 2004 he was voted ‘One of the 100 Innovators of the UK Internet Decade’ by GfK NOP, the fourth-largest custom research business in the world. In July 2008 he was put at No. 47 out of the Top 100 people in London’s creative industry by The Independent newspaper and The Hospital Club. In August 2008 TechCrunch Europe was awarded the best “Web 2.0 and business blog” in the UK, by the readers of Computer Weekly magazine. In 2009 it was named as one of the Top 10 blogs out of the UK. Also in 2009 he was named one of the Top 10 bloggers on Twitter in the UK. In October 2009 he was named one of the Top 50 most influential Britons in technology by The Daily Telegraph. In April 2010 he was named as one of Britain’s Top 100 “digital power-brokers” by Wired UK magazine. In April 2010 TechCrunch Europe was shortlisted in the Specialist Digital Publisher category of the prestigious UK-based Association of Online Publishers’ Digital Publishing Awards. In November 2010 he was named as one of London’s most influential people in New Media and “king of dotcom commentators ” by The Evening Standard Newspaper and again in 2011. In February he was listed as one of the Top 100 most influential people on Twitter in the UK. He has spoken at the prestigious Monaco Media Forum and Le Web, among many other conferences, and is a Davos / World Economic Forum “Media Leader”. Mike is a regular commentator on the technology business, appearing on BBC News, Sky News, Channel 4 and Bloomberg. Mike’s personal blog is mbites, while he Twitters as @mikebutcher.
Mike supports:
Apps For Good: A non-profit which aims to ignite a passion for technology and social enterprise in young people in the UK.
TeenTech: Which runs events to help young teenagers see career possibilities in Science, Engineering and Technology.
Coderdojo: Free not-for-profit coding clubs and regular sessions for young people in the UK, Ireland and US.
Young Rewired State: The philanthropic arm of Rewired State – which aims to foster the young children and teenagers who will become tomorrow’s technology stars.
Email: mike [AT] mbites [DOT] com
(this is my preferred method of communication)
Phone: Please email first.
Skype: mikegbutcher
Day job: Editor, TechCrunch Europe
Contact details:
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Gizmo: “mikebutcher”
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There is no better time to start up a startup, The Guardian
The Irish Times
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Qik
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Audioboo
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iPadio
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Meetings
Music
LastFM
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Songkick
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Soundcloud
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Static Profiles
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Crunchbase
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Yelp
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Qype
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Dopplr
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Irregularly used:
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SHORTER BIO:
Mike Butcher is European Editor of TechCrunch, the leading news site for Silicon Valley. TechCrunch’s Europe coverage has received numerous industry awards and Mike has been named one of the Top 50 most influential Britons in technology by The Daily Telegraph. In 2012 he was named one of the top 25 most influential people in UK technology. He is a regular commentator on the technology business, appearing on BBC News, Sky News, Channel 4 and Bloomberg. Mike is also co-founder, of TechHub, a project to bring European technology entrepreneurs and investors together in a club environment, in London and San Francisco. He has spoken at the prestigious Monaco Media Forum and Le Web, among many other conferences, and is a Davos / World Economic Forum “Media Leader”. He is also the founder and on the steering committee of Coadec, the Coalition for a Digital Economy, which works to lobby for legislation that fosters a sustainable and innovative digital economy for the UK. He has also been a judge on the annual Young Rewired State initiative – the philanthropic arm of Rewired State – which aims to foster the young children and teenagers who will become tomorrow’s technology stars. Mike has also served on the Mayor of London’s Digital Advisory Board.
His personal blog is mbites.com, while he Twitters at @mikebutcher.
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