One of the core, unwavering goals that we had when we founded StartupCafe, was to have a place where young Edinburgh-based startups can get heard, featured and talked about. This grew partly out of our frustrations that there was no central place for this type of news: it was too small to be picked up by local newspapers or big Blogs like TechCrunch, but yet, big enough for startups to get excited about.
Archive for the ‘Local News’ Category
Flaminia scoops SIE New Ventures prize!
Posted in Local News on 22 March, 2010| 1 Comment »
Flaminia Cavallo (Theory Mine/Vanity Theorems) won 1st Prize in the Scottish Institution of Enterprise’s (SIE) New Venture Competition! Flaminia, who is based on the 6th floor at Appleton Tower, is commericalising research based on her final year project which was supervised by the legendary Prof Alan Bundy at the School of Informatics. (more…)
Feedback needed for BarCamp Scotland 2010
Posted in Local News, Opinions, tagged barcamp on 18 March, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Barcamp Scotland is the annual get-together for people working in tech for the past three years. For those of you that don’t know about the event, the definition of BarCamp is:
BarCamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos, and interaction from attendees. Programmers, coders, VCs, Angels, investors, marketers, ad people, public service, creatives… all welcome to share and learn from each other. (more…)
Securing your phone when you’re chilling
Posted in Local News on 16 March, 2010| 4 Comments »
In following up on more Edinburgh startups in the news, our very own Jessica was on BBC Click last week, chilling out in the garden and telling a friendly BBC reporter about TenBu Technologies’ new product nio.
nio is another security system that uses Bluetooth technology to keep valuables safe – software links electronic tags to mobile phones and PDAs.
She’s featured in the video around 3mins in. Go and check it out! There’s even a page on the BBC News website touting it as the latest gadget to have!
Events Menu: 15-21 March
Posted in Events, Local News, tagged Beermat Entrepreneurship, e-club, edinburgh coffee morning, enterprisers, icue, Israeli Model, Janek, Mobile Apps Group, New Start Scotland, OpenCoffee Club, Student Market, tsb, twestival on 15 March, 2010| 2 Comments »
Monday, 15th March: E-Club Entrepreneur-In-Residence Sessions, 10am-6pm at the Business School
Edinburgh Entrepreneurship Club offering free advice sessions with Entrepreneur-In-Residence Gavin Don. Tap into his expertise in strategy and finance with an hour to yourself. This month’s session are all booked out, but look out for the next openings if this advice set-up is of interest to you. Or pop by and visit me as I’ll be sitting in the Business School lobby all day 🙂
Monday, 15th March: Beermat Entpreneurship with Mike Southon, 9am-5pm at Pentlands Science Park
Masterclass for innovators, researchers and entrepreneurs with Mike Southon, “The Beermat Entrepreneur” technology entrepreneur, mentor, international speaker, best selling author and FT columnist. Many scientists and technologists are great innovators but not everyone wants to be an entrepreneur. This Masterclass shows you how to take your ideas forward… or get someone else to! The world can benefit more from your scientific research and technology innovations. (more…)
Hypernumbers with Blood on the Snow
Posted in Local News on 14 March, 2010| 1 Comment »
After CereProc’s impressive publicity drive last week, it turns out there’s no shortage of Edinburgh startups getting into the press.
Hypernumbers, led by Gordon Guthrie, was recently featured on Blood on the Snow, a BBC World Service programme (incidentally, if anyone knows why there is such a disturbing title to the show, do let me know). In the show, Gordon talks about the three startups he’s been involved in, and about his latest startup Hypernumbers. (more…)
David vs Goliath: MyPolice vs HMIC
Posted in Local News, tagged big fight, HMIC, mypolice on 10 March, 2010| 22 Comments »
HMIC (Government body assessing the performance of the police) are launching a site called My Police which will report on statistics for the police, this saturday (13th March) at 9.30am sometime (edit: the page has been changed in the past hour). A quick search on the internet reveals only one reference to the HMIC site; the West Midlands Police Authority’s Chief Executive’s report dated 18th Feb 2010. According to the report, it says:
HMIC have indicated that they intend to publish the ‘Police Report Card’ in the week beginning 8 March 2010. The information will be published as part of the HMIC website, likely to be entitled ‘My Police’. The card is likely to cover a number of themes to include local policing, protection from serious harm, anti-social behaviour and value for money. The report will be a mix of data reports, narrative, gradings and direction of travel.
Of course, the team behind the “exactly” named MyPolice startup which has spun out of Social Innovation Camp last summer was not amused. Lauren Currie, Director at MyPolice sent out an email at 9am this morning, explaining the story behind the whole situation:
On Monday we were notified by email from the HMIC that they are launching a product called My police at midnight tonight. Apparently, to our knowledge, it is a site about the public feeding back on police statistics (including how much they spend in their areas) to discern the best/worst police force in the UK and other such trivia’s.
Digital/Social Media Opportunities at Shelter Scotland
Posted in Local News on 9 March, 2010| 1 Comment »
Shelter Scotland, the housing and homeless charity, is currently advertising for two digital media posts: 1 x digital manager and 1 x digital officer. If you’re interested, please contact Gordon MacRae.
£350K investment for social recruitment service BraveNewTalent.com
Posted in Local News on 5 March, 2010| 4 Comments »
BraveNewTalent.com, an online business which connects people to employers via a social network, has secured £350,000 of investment to fuel its development and international growth.
The funds will enable the company to invest further in sales and marketing to attract more subscribing employers and users. BraveNewTalent.com also has ambitious plans for overseas expansion and has the US, India, Australia and South Africa in its sights for 2010. (more…)
I’ll Be Back: Internet Marketing Meetup Revived
Posted in Local News, tagged Alan Bold, Eliza Dashwood, hubdub, Internet Marketing, Jay Feeney, Meetup Group on 4 March, 2010| Leave a Comment »
I’m happy to see that the Internet Marketing Meetup Group is going to be back in action. Having been terrifically run by Hubdub gurus for a couple years, the group has gone through a quiet spell for a few months without a fearless leader. Think Hubdub life was picking up quickly with FanDuel launching as well, but it looks like the Internet Marketing Meetup torch is now being handed to a new team of three – Alan, Jay, and Eliza.
If you are interested in online marketing, social media, SEO, and all that goodness, then look out for these monthly events. Organisers have laid out their goals and plans for the meetup below, and I think they’ll be taking on a really nice format – I especially like the chance to get market updates from the group. Have a look and perhaps see you there! (more…)
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