Okay. So the whole "let's see if we can put on a 1000 person event in 8 weeks" is actually going pretty well.
Bizarrely.
4x weeks ago I was chatting with the Jumpstart team about the J.P. Morgan 5K Corporate Challenge and complaining that there wasn't a startup / scaleup equivalent...
Well, NOW there is.
On the 6th August, we're putting on Jumpstart's Big Startup 5K at Battersea Park.
We've already had 500 (that's FIVE HUNDRED!) runners enter across 200+ startup teams.
And signups are still rapidly coming in.
To be honest, there have been a *few* moments when we've thought "let's pack it in":
>> When councils told us we needed 6 months minimum to plan
>> When we saw the volume of required paperwork
>> When you realise you realise the minutiae of the logistics involved (e.g. sorting portaloos, bins, bag drops, vendors,...)
BUT the paperwork is now in, logistics are (more or less) sorted and seeing the hundreds of signups coming in has got the whole team VERY excited for August 6th.
For those of you who are yet to grab your team tickets, there is LESS THAN 3 WEEKS to sign-up - link in comments below 👇
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Tagging just a FEW of the startups, VCs & scaleups that have already signed up...
Focal, YuLife, Scan.com, Stotles, Lapse, Entrepreneur First, Automata, AutogenAI, Octopus Energy Generation, Balderton Capital, Honest Mobile, CauliBox, Xpofairs, Noetic, Lindus Health, Raindrop, ZOE, Thriva, @UNTIL, martee ai, Bench AI, Oppidan Education, Multiverse, LightHearted AI, Round Treasury, ZINC, Plain, Bloomsbury Football, Finster AI, SURI, Elder, The Roost, The Search, Teamhub.com, Kraken, Wondercraft, TreasurySpring, Ocean Bottle