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Posted in Events, Jobs, Local News, Personal Management on Oct 30th, 2011
In London right now? Sitting on your couch reading Startup Cafe whilst yet again trying to water down that ever worse Sunday morning hangover? Thinking this is another week end wasted away, another week is about to start; your shirts are not ironed and the prospects of that corporate job of yours aren’t that bright? [...]
Posted in Beta Invites, Local News on Oct 18th, 2011
Local startup Miicard is looking for beta testers to try out their app before the main release in a few weeks time. Miicard is is about creating a system of trust online amongst people, and between people and businesses, to improve the safety and convenience of our online transactions. As a beta tester, you can [...]
Posted in Local News on Oct 14th, 2011
Sodash – the social media dashboard by the local AI consultancy Winterwell Associates – has been chosen as one of the winners of Pepsi Co 2011. More details at: http://thesandpit.com/the-sandpit-blog/2011/10/5/sodash-wins-pepsico10-europe-2011.html and http://pepsico10.com/ Congrats Dan and Joe!
Posted in Local News on Sep 11th, 2011
The 30sec version: We’re going to try to be more efficient in how we manage events and job listings on StartupCafe. Events: add them onto Open Tech Calendar – and you can view them on our ‘Events’ tab. Add ** to the start if it is a one-off event. Job listings: add them to workinstartups.com [...]
Posted in Jobs, Local News on Aug 5th, 2011
Hoda, a local children’s arts charity, is looking for help developing Rock OperatoR, a location based game that uses iPhones and maps to guide groups around Holyrood Park. The game leads users on a geological trail of discovery around Arthur’s Seat, beginning and ending at Dynamic Earth. The position requires basic iPhone dev skills, including experience [...]
Posted in Jobs, Local News on Aug 3rd, 2011
The Edinburgh Entrepreneurship Club, hosted by the University of Edinburgh Business School, is currently looking for a new part-time co-ordinator. This prestigious, public-facing role has been held by some big names in the past—namely, StartupCafe’s very own Jess Williamson, who has since moved south to work at a new startup accelerator. Prior to that, you [...]
Posted in 60 Second Interview, Events, Local News on Aug 2nd, 2011
With the full schedule for the Turing Festival now published, here’s a taste of what’s lined up for August. Our first stop: Arjan Haring, self-described wannabe breakdancer and science rockstar, and Chief Rebel Officer of Dutch startup Persuasion API. What does Persuasion API do? We have a learning algorithm that optimizes persuasion strategies per individual [...]
Posted in Local News on Jul 23rd, 2011
Ok, we might be a little late in passing this one on, but in case you didn’t know, our favourite Edinburgh based AI consultancy has gotten investment through the new accelerator in town – the Sandpit. Techcrunch covered the story (read the full story here). So it’s congratulations to Joe and Dan – and in [...]
Posted in Local News on Jul 21st, 2011
Our friends over at Mozilla emailed us to tell us about an exciting accelerator that they’ve been setting up. An intense 4 week bootcamp which includes housing, food, mentoring, access to the mozilla folks etc. This is due to kick off at our new SF MozSpace (office) around September but soon to go international, including [...]
Posted in Competitions, Local News on Jul 21st, 2011
Congrats to Michael Berger and Gregor Hofer of Speech Graphics, who were awarded £5000 and third place in the national Santander Entrepreneurship Awards earlier this month. Michael and Gregor are the brains behind a new lip-synch technology for video games, which automatically generates high-quality facial animations directly from recorded speech. You can see a cool [...]
Student and Early stage startups? Come to Enterprisers!: Considering most of the StartupCafe team have been through Enterprisers, its unsurprising for us to bring to your attention the next schedul...