Engage Invest Exploit (EIE) is on again this year on 11th May. (Sadly, this year’s title is EIE11 rather than 10 which spawned far too many Farmer jokes last year.)
This year, the Informatics Ventures team is asking for anyone that might be interested in exhibiting to register their interest at http://www.eie11.com/
So if you have a product that you might want to showcase or if you’re looking for investment, do think about signing up at http://eie11.eventbrite.com/
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Local startup Said.fm was featured at the London Ruby Community podcast this month. In it, Abdel Saleh (co-founder) talks about getting Said.fm up and going.
You can check out the Said.fm’s blog post here: http://blog.said.fm/ruby-time
And download it direct from here: http://assets.lrug.org/podcasts/lrug_podcast_episode_5.mp3
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Hi folks
Remember how a few months ago Silicon Valley’s own Valley Girl came to town?
Well, now the results are back. You can watch Edinburgh’s own on the infamous Valley Girl show. At the moment, you can check out (links go straight to video):
There’s definitely more to come, so stay tuned!
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Between 21st-24th Feb, Bill Joos, the pitch doctor is coming to town to help you perfect your pitch.
Bill is awesome – partly because he’s quite the Scottish Rugby fan (and we sort of need everyone of those at the moment) – but mostly because he makes his courses very interactive and provides real hands on advice. So not much talking, but lots of doing.
Added to this, Bill used to be partners with Guy Kawasaki back in their VC days, so he’s seen more than enough pitches and slidedecks to give insightful tips and tricks about pitching and what investors are looking for. Continue Reading »
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Hacker Monthly is an electronic print magazine version of some of the best articles on Hacker News. This month, the digitial version of the magazine is on Startup Marketing – featuring articles on Startup Marketing Fundamentals and If you build it, they won’t come.
You can get the magazine here.
Plus, there is a Startup Marketing Bundle on Appsumo this week. There are some discounts for services like unbounce, KISSmetrics etc. Unusually, you don’t need to pay anything for the deal … Grab it if it’s of interest!
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BraveNewTalent, founded a few years back by Lucian Tarnowski, a University of Edinburgh alumni, has secured an undisclosed amount of venture capital funding from Northzone Ventures and two angels: Pierce Casey and Mike Bourne.
via TechCrunch
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Local Augmented Reality company – Mobile Acuity – is 5 today! Happy birthday!
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“Why is Dropbox more popular than other tools with similar functionality?” This question was recently posed on Quora, and the following answer from Isaac Hall – co-founder of a product competing with DropBox – blew my socks off. It is a great skill to take onboard lessons from competition without the usual bitchiness, bitterness, or jealousy that can blind us from learning. I thought Isaac’s insights were very worthy of re-posting, so you can have a look if you haven’t already. Note to self: keep your product simple so you can innovate rather than problem solve, a good video goes a long way, and make sure your PR company has actually tried using your product. Isaac‘s full answer below:
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As a co-founder of Syncplicity, a service that competes with Dropbox, this question has been on my mind for years. We launched within a few weeks of Dropbox, we had multi-folder synchronization & read-only sync, and we were a few years older than the Dropbox kids. I’m very proud of the service we put together and am happy to see the service shift towards businesses, yet Dropbox kicked butt. Here’s why: Continue Reading »
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Last night, about 20 fledgling tech entrepreneurs met in the basement of the new Business School for the first instalment of the New Ventures Support Group, a new meetup organised by Edinburgh Research and Innovation (ERI) at the University of Edinburgh.
The group, which is by invitation only, aims to bring together people from all corners of the University who are launching tech or research-based startups. Accordingly, in attendance were undergrads, postgrads, PhDs, and members of staff with a diverse set of business propositions, including creating a new electronic instrument with the same portability and jam-session appeal as a guitar, using light to deliver wireless communications, Continue Reading »
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With a wonderful new meetup on the Scottish startup scenes that we should have spotlighted sooner, big thanks to Gordon Guthrie of Hypernumbers for offering this introduction. Scottish Lean Circle has been going for several months now, and the next monthly meeting is coming up Wednesday 19th January, 7:30pm at 39A Grassmarket (Winterwell HQ). I highly encourage you to familiarise yourself with this group, and jump in if you’d like to learn/share/strategise with other startup folks… More details from Gordon:
It is time to introduce the Scottish Lean Circle to the Scottish startup public properly.
1. What Is Lean?
Lean start-ups are the merger or a number of different ‘traditions’, ranging from Japanese manufacturing techniques (the Toyota Production System and 6 Sigma) to agile (and agile-like) software development and the dramatic drop in cost of starting an internet start-up.
There is a ‘business stack’ emerging:
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