Posted in Local News, tagged sodash, winterwell on 14 October, 2011| 1 Comment »
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
Congrats Dan and Joe!
Posted in Local News, tagged contributing, Events, job listings on 11 September, 2011| 2 Comments »
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 – and mark them as Edinburgh – and you can view them on our ‘Jobs’ tab.
Also, if you’re launching something or got some exciting news, drop us a line at hello@startupcafe.co.uk.
Posted in Jobs, Local News on 5 August, 2011| Leave a Comment »
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 with the maps functions and integrating multimedia and video.
Conrad Molleson, Artistic Director at Hoda, confirmed that the position will be paid, and that the app is just one element of a bigger plan:
If a student were to take it on it would be in the region of £500. A supervisor would be paid according to experience. We currently have an ECA student working on the Flash version and Heriot Watt have offered the use of their iPhones. We also have an engineering student from Leeds who’s looking at the GPS app development. Ultimately, we’re hoping for a ‘soft’ launch at Dynamic Earth for mid September.
As a bonus, Hoda has a talented team of artists providing compelling artwork for the app, as you can see in the preview video below. Interested? Send your CV to info[at]hoda.org.uk.
Posted in Inspiring/Motivating, Local News on 4 August, 2011| 8 Comments »
We knew the University of Edinburgh’s Professor Harald Haas gave a talk at TED Global earlier this summer. We knew it was about a new spin-out company he’s working on, which turns light bulbs into data sources, aka “li-fi” networks (light-fidelity, li-fi—get it?). What we didn’t know is that it was so fantastic! Hot off the presses and just released by TED, here he is, the amazing Professor Harald Haas!
Posted in Jobs, Local News on 3 August, 2011| 201 Comments »
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 may recall the reign of Sarah Luger, another powerhouse of networking and organisational talent.
The new co-ordinator position will be 15 hours per week on a decent salary scale, and most interestingly, has a contract for up to two years. Full job description and application details here.
This is a great opportunity to throw yourself into the middle of the University’s entrepreneurship scene, and to harness real resource to put on cool events that contribute to the greater community. So tell your friends to apply, and make them tell their friends, because it behooves us all to get someone awesome and inspirational leading the E-Club come September.
Posted in 60 Second Interview, Events, Local News on 2 August, 2011| Leave a Comment »
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 website visitor. [This tool was the subject of a recent feature in Wired magazine, which explained the difference between taste profiling, which is what Amazon or Netflix uses to recommend new products you might like, and persuasion profiling. While the former tries to guess what you like, the latter analyses how to pitch it so that you’re most likely to buy.]
What’s your company culture in 3 words?
Fun, handsome and good-looking. (more…)
Posted in Local News on 23 July, 2011| 3 Comments »
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 particular to the latter who has just had some exciting baby news!
Incidentally, following the investment, they’re currently hiring. So if you’re interested, make sure you give them a call…
Posted in Local News on 23 July, 2011| 1 Comment »
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 particular to the latter who has just had some exciting baby news!
Incidentally, following the investment, they’re currently hiring. So if you’re interested, make sure you give them a call…
Posted in Local News on 21 July, 2011| Leave a Comment »
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 London town!
Web: https://webfwd.org/
Blog: http://blog.webfwd.org/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23webfwd
Posted in Competitions, Local News on 21 July, 2011| 1 Comment »
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 video demo of their technology on their website.
Fourty-seven universities from across the UK were invited to nominate student-led companies for the Santander awards; from these, ten finalists were chosen to pitch to a panel of judges in London. Speech Graphics were the only Scottish company to make the finals.
Since incorporating late last year, Speech Graphics has also won a John Logie Baird award for innovation, and were one of eight companies selected to deliver live investor pitches at Engage Invest Exploit (see their 60 second version of that pitch).
Here’s a roundup of the other startups that caught Santander’s attention: (more…)
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