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Given that I share the same office as Launch48 all I’ve heard for the last 8 1/2 months is ‘Inspire’ ‘venue’ ‘sponsors’ ‘speakers’ ‘ticket sales’ etc etc.  So I for one am irrepressibly enthused that the conference is finally here.

The next two days will see the StartupCafe team soak up lessons and thoughts shared by inspirational speakers from the world of technology, creativity and entrepreneurship.

Tomorrow Soundcloud will be talking about un-muting the web, TweetMeme will ask ‘What is Big Data?’ and Wolfram Research will discuss the coming of age of computation.  And that’s just the morning.  The full schedule can be found here.

Aside from enjoying the intellectual theatre, I hope to see some familiar faces and make some cool, funny, new acquaintances.  I would encourage quirky folk to find me and say hello.  If you don’t fall into that category, (more…)

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A request from Ross McNairn—who has just moved to Edinburgh from Aberdeen—and is looking for people to join his startup:

We are a very exciting early stage startup developing a highly viral mobile web app, aimed at providing an innovative advertising solution for SMEs. We want someone who can contribute on more than a coding level, someone with an entrepreneurial streak who is capable of looking at the bigger picture, and someone with a passion to be part of something big—something disruptive! (more…)

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Wow. What a party. What a turnout. When the Edinburgh (and Glasgow!) startup community comes out to play, we really do play! (We managed to drink through the £500 bar tab in an hour and 15 mins – bet there are a few sore heads this morning.)

And don’t take it from me, here’s what other people said about the night:



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StartupCafe is a fun and happy place to go to find out about other startups in the scene so that when you encounter folk at coffee mornings, tech meetups, networking evenings, presentations or even the local pub, you might recognise your fellow entrepreneurs (aspiring or otherwise) and feel a connection!

Yes we like to offer news and opinion and generally have a chat on the site but we like to give startups a place to shout their successes, share their lessons, discover what their peers are up to and feel like they belong to a welcoming, funny, supportive, quirky little community.

Are you an Edin based startup?  Let folk know who you are!  Let them know what you do!  Let them recognise you and support you with cheery words of wisdom or a free beer 🙂 (more…)

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TED Global 2011 EdinburghGreat news Edinburgh! TED Global is making the EICC its home from now on. Historically held in Oxford, the conference outgrew the university-city’s capacity.

For those who don’t know: TED is a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Since then its scope has become ever broader. TED brings together the world’s most fascinating thinkers and doers, who are challenged to give the talk of their lives. (more…)

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I was talking to someone about StartupCafe over the weekend and it struck me that it’s been a while since we’ve talked about how we work and where our posts come from.

One of the things that we try really hard to do is to feature startups around the Edinburgh area (that includes Glasgow and Fife!). We like talking about people around us. That’s how a community grows. 🙂 Plus, if you’re just starting out, having a post about you on StartupCafe helps you start building your reputation (and SEO!) early. Fact.

The thing is, we sort of need your help. We don’t know all the startups you know. And even if we know YOU pretty well, we don’t always know all the cool things you’re working on. (more…)

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It’s hard to believe, but our little blog is celebrating its 2nd birthday next month (9th, to be precise – this was our first post).

Headline: We’re throwing a party for our 2nd birthday. It’s our way of saying thank you to the whole startup community!

We’re delighted to announce that CloudSoft, Kotikan, Fanduel, MBM Commercial and Skyscanner are the generous startups that are sponsoring the party.

There will be free food and a very healthy free bar tab.

Date: 27th May (next Friday)

Venue: Assembly, next to Negotiants (map)

Who’s invited: You! If you work in a startup, or want to be in one, come along!

Mark it in your diary – now

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Just a quick reminder folks, that this Friday is the deadline for Social Innovation Camp idea submissions. So if you have an idea about how to change the world, then write it down and submit it!

If you want to find out more about the sorts of ideas that are a good fit, then you should check out SICamp’s own blogpost about what they are looking for.

You can check out what’s been submitted already.

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Startupcafe favourite, Aaron Bassett, and a few folks from his old web agency, has set out and formed their own web dev house called Level Up.

As you would imagine, Level Up deals with all things web (including mobile web). So if you need a website built – you know where to go!

We wish Aaron, Raymond, Allan and Becky luck in their new venture!

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This weekend saw the first ever Culture Hack Scotland. 24 hours, resulted in 24 projects being presented at the end of a long and exhausting day.

Organised (prinipically) by Ambition Scotland and Festival Labs, chs11 had a number of previously unrelated datasets for the participants to play with. The most popular ones used at the weekend were the Edinburgh Year-Round footfall data (from Edinburgh City Council) and the Fringe venue dataset.

The Day

I won’t go into all of the details, especially since chs11 themselves have done a stirling job in pulling together a great documentation of the day (through Storify):

Friday night – http://storify.com/hackscotland/chs11-by-night

Saturday morninghttp://storify.com/hackscotland/saturday-morning

Saturday afternoon – http://storify.com/hannahrudman/culture-hack-scotland

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