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Calum Brannan - Social Media's Cowboy Builder?
This blog has been created to document the business antics of Mr Calum Brannan, a self-proclaimed young technology entrepreneur and Social Media guru.The contents herein are published (and should be read) on the strict understanding that they are believed to be true, fair and accurate.However, there is no means of independently corroborating the various sources of information used to create this content and, therefore, any aspects or comments that are proven (on the balance of probability) to be inaccurate will be removed or amended appropriately and are unreservedly apologised for in advance.It should also be noted that, whilst third party comments will be vetted for illegal, abusive or defamatory content, all parties named herein have the unfettered right of reply and their comments will be published unedited if their identity can be validated.In reading this blog you expressly accept the caveats detailed above and agree to consider the information contained herein with an open mind.
Summary of Calum Brannan's activities to date
Calum Brannan started a company at 15, called PPLparty, he then rolled that into Youmeo with some funding.
Calum wasn't making money, but he'd met James Leavesley, so they got some more money from investors known to James through IOD West Midlands and created Red Brick Labs, as a way to make money whilst trying to get Youmeo off the ground.
If Calum is to be believed, they weren't making money (again), so they sought alternative funding and received this in Spring 2009 and put Youmeo and Red Brick Labs into receivership, paid for by the new funder, which still hasn't been wrapped up! - is there a pattern emerging yet?
Now we come right up to date - Calum and James then walked out of Inormas and are now (apparently) using the names "Social Helium", although there's no website up yet and have a new Limited Company called CBJL Ltd, (Co. No. 07055592) - clever name, don't you think? CB=Calum Brannan and JL=James Leavesley. They also appear to be based from The Quadrant Business Centre at 3 The Quadrant, Coventry, CV1 2DY, which looks quite nice!
So they've now abandoned 3 companies, one way or another, leaving many tens of thousands of £'s of debt behind them in the process and achieved all this in about a year and the 2nd company (Youmeo/Red Brick Labs) wasn't even fully wound up before they'd already moved on to the 4th company!
Where's the money coming from to fund this company? Well, that's a story for another day, and there's much, much more besides!!
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