Happy 4th Birthday FreeAgent!
Big congrats to Ed, Roan and the rest of the team!
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Happy Birthday FreeAgent!
Posted in Local News, tagged freeagent on 21 February, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Congrats to Mobile Acuity on an exciting music partnership!
Posted in Local News, tagged 7digital, anthony ashbrook, champagne, edinburgh startup, geoff ballinger, mobile acuity, mobile world congress, partnership, shazam, visual search on 17 February, 2011| Leave a Comment »
With Anthony Ashbrook and Geoff Ballinger busy at Mobile World Congress, we’re delighted to hear the official announcement of Mobile Acuity‘s partnership with 7digital this week.
As experts in mobile visual search, Mobile Acuity’s prior work includes mobile advertising campaigns for Vodafone, such as You Rockstar. Now they’re moving further into the music scene with 7digital, a digital media delivery company based in London.
While Shazam offers song info based on audible recognition, Mobile Acuity’s technology uses visual recognition to retrieve song and album details for users. By taking a photo of a CD cover, billboard, or even a magazine ad, people can use the “Visual Discovery Service” to pull up song and artist information instantly before previewing, purchasing, and downloading music to their mobile device.
So imagine you see an ad for NOW! 98 while you’re waiting for the bus, (more…)
TSB offers £10K to test your new digital service – sweet!
Posted in Competitions, Local News, tagged digital, digital startup, entrepreneurs, funding, IC tomorrow, technology strategy board, tsb on 17 February, 2011| 1 Comment »
Want £10K to test a new digital service you’ve developed? Read on, info from Stuart Dredge at Mobile Entertainment below (thanks Stuart :)). And thanks to Colin Adams for sending in the link! Applications due 11th March at noon, contest brief and details from Stuart as follows:
Government-backed IC tomorrow initiative wants to kick off consumer trials of new and innovative digital services.
The UK’s Technology Strategy Board has launched a Digital Innovation Contest, which aims to distribute £200,000 of funding to 20 innovative new digital services.
The contest, organised under the TSB’s IC tomorrow scheme, plans to provide up to £10,000 to each startup chosen from the contest, for a six-month consumer trial. (more…)
Live blogging from Tech Law for Startups
Posted in Events, Local News on 16 February, 2011| 8 Comments »
So far, lots of drinks and a great view:
17:52 Things are heating up:
18:14 Talk has started. A broad brush overview of what you have to do to start a business. Half the audience is currently involved in starting a new company.
18:19 Considering the life cycle of an entrepreneurial business. Revenues resemble an inverse bell curve. (i.e. MBM recognises that startups have no budget?) Also, my Peroni is running low.
18:27 Partnerships (as a form of business) are still governed by a 19th century law. Did not know that. Also, limited companies, in practice, often offer little protection to startup founders because banks and others require personal guarantees. Lots of questions from the crowd. (more…)
Apply by 20th Feb for Springboard – TechStars Partner in the UK!
Posted in Events, Local News, tagged accelerator, Cambridge, difference engine, jon bradford, springboard, startup incubator, techstars on 16 February, 2011| 2 Comments »
You’ve probably heard of TechStars, but have you heard of Springboard? We’re excited to share there is a startup accelerator in Cambridge which opened last year, and you have 5 days left to get your applications in for Spring 2011. You may know Springboard’s MD Jon Bradford from his fun presentation at TechMeetup, where he spoke about running The Difference Engine (another cool accelerator) in Middlesbrough. Basically Jon is awesome and if you’re considering something like this, then stop what you’re doing and definitely get your applications in! You can check out mentors and details at http://springboard.com (applications here), with more info from Jon below:
Springboard applications due to close 20 February
With less than a week to go, Springboard Cambridge is making its final call for applications to its Spring 2011 intake.
Springboard, the only TechStars Network partner in the UK, have assembled over 100 awesome mentors including serial entrepreneurs, Venture Capitals, Y Combinator alumni and all of the major tech corporates to help your startup achieve their real potential. Springboard ends with the opportunity to pitch to venture capitalists and angel investors. (more…)
Calling all User eXperience (UX) geeks!
Posted in Local News, tagged design, ux on 16 February, 2011| 3 Comments »
After what seems like forever, the UX geeks of Edinburgh have to wait no longer for their own meetup. A new UX book club is in town. Ryan Sackett has put together the first meetup of the group which will be held on Thursday 3rd March, 7pm:
The first book is ‘Undercover User Experience Design’. There is also a twitter account that you can follow (@uxbcedi).
The very excellent Tom and Mike
Posted in Local News on 11 February, 2011| 1 Comment »
…can now be seen on The Valley Girl Show.
For more of Tom Larkworthy and Mike Mangan (using their full names for the benefit of web spiders, Google alerts, and other pedants), check out this 60 second description of their company, Spectral Robotics, and the Edinburgh Hacklab site.
UKTI helping put Scotland startups on the map – thank you!
Posted in Local News on 10 February, 2011| Leave a Comment »
The UK Trade & Investment team from San Francisco visited Edinburgh this week, and we were delighted to connect them with the local startup scene. Huge thanks to Cody, Tim, Tanner, and Tahera for being awesome and recognising the wealth of activity up here – and more importantly, being willing to help! Thanks also to those of you that made it along for lunch on Wednesday, and I hope the conversations keep rolling along…
I’ve found UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) folks fantastic for supporting trade show appearances and offering concrete introductions to American companies. Cody was really helpful while I was working with TenBu Technologies, for example getting Sprint to pay attention to us when I had no contact, so I wanted to make sure other startups were made aware of the support available.
I hope it was helpful, and THANK YOU to everyone who came along! (more…)
Heidi Roizen on being the Entrepreneur-in-residence
Posted in Inspiring/Motivating, Local News, tagged e-club, Heidi Roizen on 9 February, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Four news stories for the price of one.
Posted in Events, Local News on 9 February, 2011| 1 Comment »
There’s so much to say, and so little time, so here’s an uber-condensed version of the latest Edinburgh startup news.
Someone new to talk to.
A warm welcome to Alistair Hann, who moved to Edinburgh in January after his two-year-old startup, Zoombu, was acquired by Skyscanner. Watch for Alistair at TechMeetup, Lean Startup Circle, and other events around town. (We met him at Edinburgh Night Owls, so he already has a good handle on the local social scene. Where could he have learned all that so quickly?!)
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