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Meet mobile and tablet technology folk

Posted in Events, Local News, Opinions, tagged , , , , on 18 November, 2010| 1 Comment »

If you are interested in:

  • building mobile or iPad apps
  • creating a startup company over a weekend
  • meeting designers, developers or other like-minded types
  • pitching a mobile or tablet based business ideas
  • listening to upcoming mobile and table tech chat from the likes of Adobe, Paypal and Microsoft

then count your lucky stars!

On Nov 26-28th, Launch48 will be holding a mobile and tablet based entrepreneurial event that will allow you the opportunity to pitch a business idea and build up a business in 48hrs!

I’ve been to a couple of Launch48 events now and have found them to be tremendous!  I’ve learnt new things, stepped out of my comfort zone, worked with a variety of people, made some cool friends, been under a wee bit o’ pressure and LAUGHED a lot!  If that’s not incentive enough to take part, what about the free beer and pizza?  Other members of the StartupCafe team who’ve (more…)

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The Student Market – A new community for new entrepreneurs

Posted in Events, Local News, tagged , , , on 17 November, 2010| 1 Comment »

There’s a new site in town to help startups get spotted, and we’re delighted to see The Student Market showcase products and services from student entrepreneurs. The project has been pioneered by one of our favourite student groups iCUE Business & Entrepreneurial Society, and we’re excited to go exhibit and support their launch event tomorrow night – everyone is welcome, join us and check out the student startup scene!

Launch Event: Thursday 18th November, 7:30-9:00pm, Appleton Tower Concourse
 Open to startups, students, the curious, potential customers, and the wider business community – yes, everyone 🙂
Free with free wine and snacks too!

More juicy details from The Student Market team: (more…)

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Events Menu: 15th-21st November

Posted in Events, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on 15 November, 2010| Leave a Comment »

Happy Global Entrepreneurship Week everybody! Yes, 15th-21st of November is Global Entrepreneurship Week – “Make a job, Don’t take a job!” As it happens, there are lots of events to celebrate 🙂

Tuesday 16th November: Launch Lab – The Future, 9am at RenRoc (89-91 Montgomery)

The Launch Lab is a weekly session geared toward anyone who owns or is starting their own business. A highly varied group of energetic, intelligent people gather to exchange ideas, share critiques and encouragement, and feed each others’ vitality. The organiser of this group has just been hired (yay!) and therefore tomorrow’s event will be networking and also discussing the future and how we can take Launch Lab further by evening/future events.

Tuesday 16th November: iTunes makes a big announcement, 3pm

Any fun guesses? … (more…)

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Hugging sales staff

Posted in Events, Opinions, tagged , , on 15 November, 2010| 1 Comment »

“Businesses don’t fail because of lack of funding; they fail because of lack of hope.  Your first few sales will give you hope”  said Julian Lloyd Evans (Dennis Publishing) at the last London Launch48 Conference (themed Top Tips for Entrepreneurs).

His advice to aspiring entrepreneurs was that you should have in mind your first 20 sales when you start up your business. (more…)

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Events Menu: 8th-14th November

Posted in Events, tagged , , , , , , , on 9 November, 2010| Leave a Comment »

Wednesday 10th November: Edinburgh Tech Meetup, 6:30pm at Appleton Tower 8th Floor

A monthly gathering of folks interested in tech, from startups to developers to innocent bystanders. This month’s speakers include Jonathan Riddell – Introduction to Qt, Tony Lucas – Infrastructure as a Service, and Tane Piper – NodeJS + ExpressJS. There’s always a lot to learn, new people to meet, and oh yeah – free beer and pizza! It’s all free and open to anyone, just turn up on the 8th Floor.

Thursday 11th November: E-Club Heidi Roizen: Wow, an Inspiration! 6-8pm, Business School Auditorium

An evening of drinks, networking, and Q&A with one of Silicon Valley’s most impressive businesswomen! Heidi co-founded T/Maker Company. (an early personal computer software company) in 1983, where she served as CEO from inception through to its acquisition by Deluxe Corporation in 1994. In 1996 Heidi joined Apple as Vice President of Worldwide Developer Relations. From there, Heidi entered the venture capital world serving as a Managing Director of Mobius Venture Capital from 1999 to 2007. Today Heidi splits her time between her entrepreneurial endeavour, SkinnySongs and board service in the public, private and nonprofit sectors. Networking and drinks kick off at 6pm, and the talk will begin 6:30pm. More drinks to follow of course! Free and open to all. (more…)

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Favourite Tweets from Launch48

Posted in Events, Humour, tagged , on 5 November, 2010| Leave a Comment »

If you haven’t seen it already, I did a quick summary of Launch48 using the tweets that everyone sent. But if you don’t have time and just want to skip straight to the good bits, here’s my run down of the best tweets of the weekend… (other nominations welcome)

Funniest tweet: paulanthonywils: Feck me. Someone just pitched a flying car for #launch48

Most accurate description of Launch48: @markoscharatzas: If I was to pitch #launch48 in one sentence. “A box where you put a group of strangers inside it and shake it frenzy for 48 hours”

Best Feature Request: jarofgreen: Does @zzzappa_app have a snooze button? #launch48

Worst pun: JessInScotland: Hmmm is this my solemate!?!? #launch48(#seemyjeans)http://yfrog.com/e8hprij

Best benefit of an app: @glennbuchan Run2see keeps you safe from neds and bears!#launch48

Most insightful tweet: Tech_Literate: Really good talented people aren’t looking for jobs – have to meet them through contacts and persuade them – Simon Montford #launch48

Biggest statement tweet: markoscharatzas: After #launch48 demo people said to me “great acting”,”awesome monologue”,”amazing show”.It was neither scripted nor acting but a statement.

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Launch48 – in blog posts and tweets

Posted in Events, Local News on 5 November, 2010| 3 Comments »

A few of the startupcafe team are still reeling from the crazy weekend that was, Launch48. We now have 4 more startups in Edinburgh over the period of 48 hours:

 

Startup summaries

Compare The Universities
CompareTheUniversities.com allows prospective students to fully investigate their options for attending universities by aggregating information about each university, programme of study, and associated tuition fees. By inputting their qualifications, skills and interests, users are provided with potential prospects for further education.
http://comparetheuniversities.tumblr.com/

run2see
For those who love to run and travel this is a one stop site. Arrive in a new city and keen for safe routes to go running? Look no further. The run2see mobile app harnesses the inbuilt GPS in smartphones to provide users with the safest running routes nearby. Along the way, the app will narrate a guided tour giving the listener interesting information about historical landmarks and sites of local significance.
http://run2see.com/ (more…)

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Valley Girl gets some funky moves

Posted in Events, Local News on 3 November, 2010| 3 Comments »

We’re sitting here in the Edinburgh Business School and really lucky to be listening to Jesse Draper (aka The Valley Girl). She is currently interviewing Ralf from Funky Moves. Here is our transcript…

Jesse: What are your best tips for bootstrapping?

Ralf: Be honest and don’t spend any money.

Jesse: What are the benefits of bootstrapping? (more…)

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Belated Events Menu: 1st-7th Nov

Posted in Events, tagged , , , , , , , , on 3 November, 2010| Leave a Comment »

Oh my where has the time gone?! So many events, so little time and energy to blog them, sorry for our silence and delay in returning to the writing world. It’s been anything but quiet. A fabulous weekend at Launch48, so thanks very much to all who put blood/sweat/tears/fun into the new companies, the outcome was really incredible and we’ll try to do that justice shortly. I also heard great things about Drupalcamp, and if anyone would like to send us your own experiences from one of the many recent events, by all means you can send them to us at hello@startupcafe.co.uk :). In the meantime, here are the rest of the events to check out this week!

Wednesday 3rd November: Valley Girl “Live Show” at E-Club, 6pm at Business School Auditorium

Join the show audience as a highly entertaining live interview is broadcast to thousands of viewers… Straight from the Silicon Valley, the event will be part talk, part live show! “Valley Girl” Jesse Draper be interviewing Ralf Klinnert of Funky Moves, famous for his recent appearance on the BBC Dragon’s Den (footage here). Come join the show audience and learn how Jesse has become “The Valley Girl” interviewing some of the biggest names in the startup world – and now in Edinburgh! For a taster, check out a funny past episode. (more…)

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*Special Reminder* : Launch48 : Cool people only (that’s you!)

Posted in Events, tagged , , , , , , on 26 October, 2010| Leave a Comment »

Dear StartupCafe readers,

You’ve been selected for a personal invite because someone here thinks you’re awesome.

And I’m sure you have a lot going on, and little time for random invites to amazing events.

SO, to be quick, we have a really WOW! Conference this Friday for anyone interested in biz, tech, or starting companies.

And then we have a WOW! Weekend where we’re going to create new startup companies using ideas from attendees and your mad skills – whether you’re into business, design, development, marketing, or nunchuck.

You will end the weekend feeling ON TOP OF THE WORLD.

You can still sign up, but hurry because we’re going to fill up – we just hope we fill up with people like YOU!!

Registration: http://edinburgh.launch48.com/tickets/

See you there,

StartupCafe & your Launch48 fan club

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