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The final pivot: an update from Sam Collins and @Bloop, and the new T-Rex of event management

9 June, 2011 by Hilary Singer

EventasaurusDeveloping a new product is all about the pivot: making sure you speak to real customers to find out their real problems, and then changing development direction to ensure your product soothes one of these pain points.

Sam Collins—long-time entrepreneur, ex-Edinburgher, recent Londoner, and founder of the Edinburgh Tech Meetup—understands this well. In the past couple of years, he’s become an expert about events, and how we use the web to organise, promote, and discover them.

Here’s an update from Sam about their latest innovation and new product, Eventasaurus, which you can start using today: Continue Reading »

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StartupCafe meets Peter Vesterbacka from Rovio, makers of Angry Birds

8 June, 2011 by Bela Hamid

Meeting and chatting with the Mighty Eagle of Rovio (makers of Angry Birds) was definitely a highlight for the StartupCafe girls.

While there were many cool folk at The Inspire Conference, a thought leadership event, we couldn’t pass up the opportunity to get a photo with Peter Vesterbacka and his business card 🙂

While in conversation, it turned out that Peter remembered Jess from an event in Barcelona two years ago!

Given how many people he must meet travelling around the world at events and stuff, she must have left quite an impression, and quite frankly we’d expect nothing less!

I’ve taken lots of notes from the conference but Day 2 is today so I’ll try and get them on the site tomorrow.

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StartupCafe head to The Inspire Conference

6 June, 2011 by Bela Hamid

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, Continue Reading »

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Request for developers: HTML5, PHP and PhoneGap

31 May, 2011 by Kate Ho

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! Continue Reading »

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Work hard, play harder: Celebrating two years in style!

28 May, 2011 by Kate Ho

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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Edinburgh startups: your news, your triumphs, your witty anecdotes are requested

27 May, 2011 by Bela Hamid

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 🙂 Continue Reading »

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Best Startup Advice from Springboard (so far …)

27 May, 2011 by Kate Ho

So, as we mentioned a little while ago, Jess has been relocated down to Cambridge to help run the springboard accelerator down there.

As you can imagine, things down there are pretty hectic during the 3 month bootcamp with lots of mentoriing and advice for those participating. But instead of letting all that juicy knowledge escape, Jess has been blogging regularly with little bits of really interesting insights from each day.

Here are some of the highlights: Continue Reading »

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Journalism 2.0: Bringing together journalists and hackers – THIS FRIDAY

25 May, 2011 by Kate Ho

This post is from Devon Walshe – organiser of Hacks and Hackers Edinburgh and MD of local student paper, The Journal.
The Knight-Mozilla partnership is bringing an exciting, full day of planned spontaneity and organised chaos to Scotland this Friday as part of its news technology partnership. The creators of Firefox have teamed up with the Knight Foundation and launched a three year partnership to harness open web innovation for Journalism. Events are kicking off this month all over the UK, with one coming Dundee on the 27th of May.
The full day, open to all brainstorming event is co-organized by the Knight-Mozilla partnership, Product Design Dundee &Hacks/Hackers Edinburgh. Attendees have the opportunity to win one of 15 places on a year long fellowship with The Guardian, Al Jazeera, The BBC and other news organisations if their ideas are selected for the next stage of programme.

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Creating a Web Presence for your mobile app

25 May, 2011 by Kate Ho

Still at my day job, I’ve been looking at creating a web presence for our up-coming app release(s). After outlining the ways in which you can collect beta testers earlier in the week, this post takes a slightly different slant and looks at the options for creating a quick, simple web presence for your mobile app.

Step 1: Look at good examples

Before you make your own website, make sure you have a look at what’s out there already. Pick the bits you like, throwaway the ones that you don’t. My favourite resource to do this is at:

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