Posted in Events, tagged creative, creative edinburgh, design, meetup on 5 November, 2012| Leave a Comment »
Creative Edinburgh are running their first ever Creative Circles meetup at 9am on 6th Nov (that’s tomorrow!)
Being held in BrewLab, this meetup combines the best of creative and tech together. It’s free, no sign up required. Go check it out!
http://www.creative-edinburgh.com/programme/our-programme/creative-circles-@brew-lab.aspx
Posted in Events on 8 October, 2012| 6 Comments »
Jack Griffin, a marketing guru that was part of the original 1984 Apple Mac launch team, is speaking at the first ever GlowJam on 1st Nov at 7pm.
GlowJams are a series of events ran by Swiss based Glowfori; locally, it is being organised by Creative Edinburgh (the team that was behind the logistics for the Turing Festival).
More details below. We’ve been given 5 complementary tickets to the event, so please comment here if you would like a ticket to the event.
Posted in Events, Local News on 3 October, 2012| Leave a Comment »
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 in more than 27 different languages. You can read their story here.
So what will SW Edinburgh entail? On 16-18th November 2012, entrepreneurial developers, designers and marketers will come together to pitch business ideas, form teams and produce product prototypes and business plans which they’ll then present to the rest of the event participants and a specially selected judging panel. (more…)
Posted in Events on 3 October, 2012| Leave a Comment »
Outside of the startup sphere, another industry facing similar issues/problems around getting traction and growth is the indie games industry.
After quite a while of gaming companies not talking to each other – there’s finally a ‘Chatham House’ style meetup for the gaming startups in Scotland (that is outside of Dundee!)
The Glasgow Mobile Games Breakfast is a monthly meetup for people in companies being hosted at the WeeWorld offices in Glasgow. It aims to tackle issues such as marketing, growth, analytics for anyone working in Mobile and Gaming (pref both).
The next Glasgow Mobile Games Breakfast on 19th Oct at the WeeWorld offices at 19 Blythswood Square at 8.30am (yes, I know, early doors).
Entry/RSVP to Celia Francis at celia at weeworld.com.
Posted in Events on 3 October, 2012| Leave a Comment »
Over the past 18 months, there’s been more and more talk about the issue of Product Management and how we can get a better understanding of the product management process inside the startup community north of the border.
As of this morning (hot off the press!) the first Product Tank has been announced for Edinburgh on 23rd Oct.
Skyscanner are very kindly hosting the event at their new offices on Quartermile – not far from the Meadows.
The event will be a meetup, alongside one or two speakers (these are still to be confirmed!)
Rachel Evatt over at Skyscanner has been driving the event, and more details will be released soon. In the meantime, add this to your calendar (like, now!)
Edit: Sign up over at Meetup.com : http://www.meetup.com/ProductTank-Edinburgh/
Posted in Events, Local News on 3 October, 2012| Leave a Comment »
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 and present their ideas and progress to a judging panel.
TechCube’s Devon Walshe has said that he’s ‘really excited’ about the event and glad to be able to host it. Woo! We are too! Thanks guys!
Startup Weekend Edinburgh will be held on 16th Nov – 18th Nov 2012. Check out the event website for a detailed schedule and to buy early bird tickets (£30).
Posted in Events, Local News, tagged edinburgh, Entrepreneurship, startup weekend on 1 October, 2012| Leave a Comment »
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 be interested in organising the first Edin event.
Over the last couple of months, past SW participants Richard, Kate Ho and I have been busy putting the organisational infrastructure in place and are pleased to see things shaping up quite nicely. The event will be held 16th – 18th Nov 2012. (more…)
Posted in Events on 28 September, 2012| Leave a Comment »
Join in this unique opportunity to discuss lean product management with Chris Dolezalek. A leading proponent of the ‘Lean’ movement, Chris Dolezalek, is now Senior Director of Engineering with IMVU, the online social community with over 50 million users. Chris ‘walks the talk’ on lean, harnessing the disciplines of continuous innovation in the software engineering function to shorten product development cycles dramatically.
Immediately before joining IMVU Chris was in charge of Engineering at Yahoo! Games. His first job was with Softlab in Germany, but he has
spent most of his career in ‘the Valley’ in roles from Director of Product Management to VP, Engineering working also with Intuit, Informix and BroadVision which he helped lead to from pre-IPO to the fastest growing software company on NASDAQ before taking some time off to teach at Elementary Schools in the Bay area. He was lured back to the industry by Intuit to lead internal, agile startup efforts.
ScotlandIS is hosting the event and it’ll be free to Scotland IS members, cost £25+vat for startups and £45+vat for non-members and non-startups. See http://www.scotlandis.com/events/event-details/Masterclass_with_Chris_Dolazalek for more details
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Posted in Events on 19 August, 2012| Leave a Comment »
Here at Startupcafe we’re great advocates of the work hard, play hard philiosphy. So, when Colin Hewitt from Float recently got in touch about the startups party he’s organising at the Turing Festival, this coming saturday, we had no choice but to make sure we’re going to be there!
So make sure you get yours too! It’ll sure be one of the most exciting places to be on Saturday night!
Posted in Events on 16 August, 2012| Leave a Comment »
Next week sees the arrival of the 3 day Turing Festival returning to Edinburgh. This year is headlined by Steve Wozniack – co-founder of Apple.
On top of this, there are a few other events that anyone interested in startups should pay attention to. These include:
Aligning Interests: entrepreneurs & investors
A panel of international heavyweights & local entrepreneurs discuss how to build an entrepreneurial ecosystem, and look at how to remedy Scotland’s lack of seed funding for Tech.
http://venturecapital-turing.eventbrite.com/?ebtv=C
Pitch Clinic
A pitch coaching event run by Brian Caulfield: a former tech entrepreneur who had 2 exits worth over $100m, he then became an angel, and is now a VC at DFJ Esprit.
http://startuppitchclinic-turing.eventbrite.com/
Startup Party
Startups, partying. At Summerhall. What else do you need!
StartupCafe 