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Belated Events Menu: 30th March – 3rd April

Posted in Events, tagged , , , , , , , , , on 30 March, 2011| 1 Comment »

Better late than never… I hope?

Sorry the first half got truncated as I was homelessly running around Cambridge (more on that tomorrow), and thanks Bela for taking me in in London, but I have completely digressed. If you’ve missed your events fix, still plenty going on this week…

Thursday 31st March: Using Digital Marketing to Build an Online Brand, 6:30pm-8:00pm in Business School LT3

Brought to you by the Internet Marketing Meetup, a specialised partner of the E-Club, and open to all… Thomas Ashdown, Founder of Citylets will lead us in our discussion describing how he has used digital marketing techniques to build the UKs No1 residential lettings site based here in the heart of Edinburgh. Drinks at the Assembly will follow. Internet Marketing Meetup here for more details on them too.

Thursday 31st March: Drinks at SKYBar after above E-Club event, Point Hotel at 34 Bread Street

This bar looks amazing, and Johnny is initiating drinks there following the Internet Marketing/E-Club event. (more…)

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5 things founder and CEO of #InnocentDrinks found to be true. Lesson 1…

Posted in Events, Opinions, tagged , , on 28 March, 2011| 4 Comments »

Last week I went to see Richard Reed, founder and CEO of Innocent Drinks give a talk at the London Metropolitan University.  If you ever get the opportunity to see him then I’d recommend it.  He’s a fairly entertaining presenter and I enjoyed myself immensely.

Lesson 1: Have a mission that works

Reed himself makes a hobby out of collecting / identifying missions.  He says that to be successful you need to serve a simple, unifying mission.  It’s important to be clear on why you are here.

I wonder, does this sound like something you’ve heard before?  Why do people say the same thing over and over again at these events? Maybe because this lesson is TRUE and though it’s simple, it’s one that most of us find difficult to achieve!  Reed provides this as an example of a company (called Longaberger) that truly understands the reason for its existence: (more…)

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3 new startups to watch for football, shopping & meetings: @bluefieldscom @hipsnip & @minutebase

Posted in Events, Local News, tagged , , , , , , on 28 March, 2011| 3 Comments »

Launchpad is a startup incubation programme which culminated in an event last week hosted at Google’s London office where the three teams that survived the four month mentoring programme gave presentations to a roomful of mentors, startups, investors and other interested parties.

The programme was run by Launch48 who did not take a stake in the businesses. There were originally 4 teams but only 3 made it to the end.  The criteria for acceptance into the programme were: talented teams who were technically capable, would benefit from the program, had a product under development and who had an understanding of their market.

Several mentoring sessions were held over four months, each focussing on a particular area: mentoring, marketing, legal review, branding, sales, investment, and term sheet review.  These sessions were mentored by folk from the likes of Microsoft, Google and Dennis Publishing. (more…)

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Edinburgh Twestival: Inside Scoop on Tomorrow’s Event! @EdTwestival buzz by @idle_bull

Posted in Events, Guest Blogger, tagged , , , , , on 23 March, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Once upon a time I signed up for Twitter so I could crash the Edinburgh Twestival 2009… and tomorrow 24th March the Edinburgh Twestival is on again! The fun starts 7pm-1am at Hawke & Hunter (near the Omni). It’s a wonderful Twitter + festival party with all sorts of entertainment and cool folks, and many thanks to Geoff Kennedy (@idle_bull) for offering the inside scoop in all his excitement [Tickets here til they sell out!]:

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It’s 1.13am Wednesday the 23rd March 2011 and realisation that ‘that Twestival thing‘ I got involved in is iminent!

Well we’ve certainly been ambitious with EdTwestival this year! We’re looking to build on the success of previous Edinburgh Twestivals with even more people there on the night, and if all goes to plan; more cash raised!

As ever the mix is pretty electic. We have bands, cupcakes, a mind reader, drinks (of course), prizes galore (a hell of a lot of prizes), a DJ, a Foursquare Superswarm attempt (very geeky), boardgaming, a photobooth, goodiebags, silent auction, even an opera singer! This doesn’t even cover half of it! (more…)

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Free wifi, coffee, love – Thursday 24th March

Posted in Events, Local News on 21 March, 2011| Leave a Comment »

This Thursday, homeless startups can find not just shelter but also wifi, free coffee, and a supportive community at The Melting Pot on Rose Street. The co-working space hosts monthly sessions open to all (aka “Jellies”), and thanks to the lovely folks there this month’s gathering is startup themed – woooo!

So whether you work from expensive/lonely coffee shops, or whether you could use a change of scenery from your usual office, I encourage you to join in the warm Jelly spirit and venture to The Melting Pot 9am-9pm. Spaces are limited – details copied below, and if it’s your cup of tea, you can sign up here to claim your space. Special thanks to Marie for coordinating to make this happen for the startup world 🙂

Start-Ups Jelly Thursday 24th March 2011, all day 9am to 9pm (more…)

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Events Menu: 21st-27th March

Posted in Events, tagged , , , on 21 March, 2011| 6 Comments »

This is a work in progress as I am in a slight rush to catch my flight (hopefully), but I wanted to get this started… Please feel free to help crowd-source a full list here – just add any events to the comments, and we’ll see how much we can gather! 🙂

Monday 21st March

Tuesday 22nd March

Wednesday 23rd March

Thursday 24th March: Edinburgh Startup Jelly, 9am-9pm at The Melting Pot, 5 Rose Street

Are you in the start-up stage of your business? Do you want somewhere to come meet & chat with other start ups? Do you want a day to focus on work in a real office with free tea & coffee? (more…)

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15% off Flights from BA for British SMEs

Posted in Events on 20 March, 2011| 1 Comment »

Scottish Development International is urging all Scottish companies to apply for the British Airways ‘flights for businesses’ offer before the promotion closes on 14 April, to help them target new international markets, increase exports and win new business.

The ‘flights for business’ offer consists of a single-use discount voucher, for up to nine employees within any one organisation, providing a reduction of 15 percent off all cabins and classes on BA flights from the UK anywhere in the world. To date, over 400 Scottish companies have taken advantage of the offer.

Run jointly in Scotland by British Airways and Scottish Development International, the offer is open to small and medium sized enterprises and aims to support overseas trade development activity.

Find out more on the SDI website

[reposted from 38minutes.co.uk]

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SXSW Days 6, 7 and Round up podcast

Posted in Events, tagged on 19 March, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Going from 20 degrees plus to 10 degrees minus was quite a jump, but after adjusting to the jetlag and the weather, here are the last remaining podcasts from our amazing time at SXSW.

Incidentally, if you want an easy way to download all of these podcasts in one go, then you can subscribe through the iTunes store here.

Day 6

Day 7 (more…)

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#SXSW Day 5 – The Podcast

Posted in Events, tagged , , , , on 15 March, 2011| 2 Comments »

Hey guys, lots of gossip from yesterday as we’ve been keeping busy! Thanks so much for all the tweets back to us, it’s been really good to hear from you along the way. Our shout outs go to Chris and Andrew of Tiziano Project, Alexis and Dave of Hipmunk, Mona of Apture, and many more… In this podcast trio, we cover our panel adventures, a meetup of cool entrepreneurial women, and the UK Trade & Investment BBQ full of friendly faces.

Our nightlife continued with am amazing storytelling event – Fray Cafe, followed by the Search Party (thanks Hipmunk, Blekko, Chomp!), meeting the Guardian team while in line for tacos, my first double cheeseburger, new friends at 2am, and staying up to watch the sunrise… well ok, one of us was more sensible…

Audioboo: Sxsw day 5 part 1 http://boo.fm/b302613

Audioboo: Sxsw day 5 part 2 http://boo.fm/b302623

Audioboo: Sxsw day 5 part 3 http://boo.fm/b302636

 

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A meeting of creative entrepreneurs

Posted in Events, Inspiring/Motivating, Opinions, tagged , , , , , , , , , on 15 March, 2011| Leave a Comment »

@Dreamstake is a network for creative entrepreneurs and last week I attended one of their events: Female Superheroes.When events like this go well, it’s like cocaine for business-minded folk.  Suddenly you feel great and want to rush away to execute your ideas!  There was a good turn out, lots of energy and inspirational stories.  It was great to see such enthusiasm. Several cool women gave presentations but I only have room to give a quick mention to a couple of them here today.

Devilishly Handsome Productions

Thembisa Cochrane from the deliciously named Devilishly Handsome Productions sent out a strong message that women need to be more courageous about technology.  She asked for women to step up and try to (more…)

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