Celebrating startups locally; promoting them globally!
Posted in Local News on Feb 18th, 2013
Tim Willis from Flexpansion is looking for anyone that wants to partner with them to deliver specialist text applications on android. See below for details! — Do you know anyone using tablets or smartphones for work, or supplying software to people who are? Would they like to type all their specialised writing twice as fast, using an [...]
Posted in Events, Local News on Oct 3rd, 2012
Startup success story Skyscanner, has come on board as sponsor for SW Edinburgh! The Edinburgh based, flight search company started up officially back in 2001, and has grown to become the number one flight search engine in Europe. In 2011 they opened a Singapore office to grow in the Asia-Pacific market and they offer flight searches [...]
Posted in Events, Local News on Oct 3rd, 2012
Edinburgh startup incubator, TechCube, has shown its support of SW Edinburgh by coming on board as a sponsor!! The 52hour event will be held in Summerhall (a creative hub near the Meadows in Sciennes) and see teams of talented, entrepreneurial designers, developers and marketers compete to come up with viable business ideas, build prototypes, find customers [...]
Posted in Events, Local News on Oct 1st, 2012
Designers, developers and marketing professionals are invited to attend the first Startup Weekend (SW) event to come to Edinburgh! Following a successful SW event in Glasgow earlier this year, enthusiastic calls were made for the same to take place in Edinburgh; and the European coordinator of SW contacted us at StartupCafe to see if we’d [...]
Posted in Events, Local News on Jun 7th, 2012
Edinburgh will see Scotland’s first Javascript conference held on June 26th 2012 at The Royal College of Physicians on Queen Street. The editor of Javascript weekly will be delivering the keynote speech and the rest of the day will see the following talks: Nought to real-time, multiplayer game in 16 hours with Pusher: Philip Roberts [...]
Posted in Local News on Apr 22nd, 2012
A local researcher is looking for business/management studies students as participants for a project. Details below. Contact Areti directly if you’d like to be involved (and if you let her know that you found her through us, then that would be awesome!) — Hello, Participants are needed for an experiment that involves answering some questions [...]
Posted in Events, Local News on Apr 10th, 2012
Who uses Drupal? Who’s just generally interested in the platform? And who among you are non-technical decision makers keen to explore the business benefits of using Drupal and open source software in general? A growing number of you apparently – I hear that the number of Drupal users in Scotland is growing rapidly. So why [...]
Posted in 60 Second Interview, Local News on Mar 18th, 2012
The person behind Keepmeout and Quezti, local Edinburgh University student Ali Eslami has recently started a textbook exchange site – Book Adopter. I met up with Ali and asked him about his new web app … So Ali, tell me about your new startup. Our latest project is called BookAdopter, and it’s a website [...]
Posted in Jobs, Local News on Feb 22nd, 2012
Edinburgh startup Hubdub are in need of a talented web developer to help them with their fantasy sports game FanDuel. They’re offering £30-40K depending on experience as well as stock options to the right person. Is that you? Is it? I’ve pasted their blurb below for the more curious amongst you: —— At Hubdub we [...]
Posted in Events, Local News on Feb 8th, 2012
Are you learning, or do you want to learn, programming in Edinburgh? Then you might want to saunter along to some free networking events in Leith aimed at like-minded folk, where the idea is for you to pair up with other people to study, and also get advice if you don’t know where to start. [...]
Edinburgh gathering of Startup Lessons Learnt 2011 : This coming Monday (23rd) will see the 1 year anniversary of Scottish Lean Startup Circle starting and a repeat of the 1st ever event held: ...