22 November, 2010 by Jessica Williamson
We were blown away last week by the Student Market, the new place for young entrepreneurs to get seen and promoted. We covered the project earlier this month, and their launch event last Thursday evening was absolutely superb.
The event was a chance for student entrepreneurs to exhibit their businesses, ranging from web apps to fashion to race car driving. With about 20 companies of all types on display, it drew an impressive crowd of around 200 visitors throughout the evening.
The Student Market is an online portal showcasing student businesses, but it’s more than just a website. It’s also events like these where student entrepreneurs can exhibit, meet each other, and speak directly to potential customers in a friendly environment. And beyond that, it’s the creation of a supportive community. Continue Reading »
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18 November, 2010 by Bela Hamid
If you are interested in:
- building mobile or iPad apps
- creating a startup company over a weekend
- meeting designers, developers or other like-minded types
- pitching a mobile or tablet based business ideas
- listening to upcoming mobile and table tech chat from the likes of Adobe, Paypal and Microsoft
then count your lucky stars!
On Nov 26-28th, Launch48 will be holding a mobile and tablet based entrepreneurial event that will allow you the opportunity to pitch a business idea and build up a business in 48hrs!
I’ve been to a couple of Launch48 events now and have found them to be tremendous! I’ve learnt new things, stepped out of my comfort zone, worked with a variety of people, made some cool friends, been under a wee bit o’ pressure and LAUGHED a lot! If that’s not incentive enough to take part, what about the free beer and pizza? Other members of the StartupCafe team who’ve Continue Reading »
Posted in Events, Local News, Opinions | Tagged Entrepreneurship, Launch48, mobile apps, tablet apps, technologies | 1 Comment »
17 November, 2010 by Jessica Williamson
There’s a new site in town to help startups get spotted, and we’re delighted to see The Student Market showcase products and services from student entrepreneurs. The project has been pioneered by one of our favourite student groups iCUE Business & Entrepreneurial Society, and we’re excited to go exhibit and support their launch event tomorrow night – everyone is welcome, join us and check out the student startup scene!
Launch Event: Thursday 18th November, 7:30-9:00pm, Appleton Tower Concourse
Open to startups, students, the curious, potential customers, and the wider business community – yes, everyone 🙂
Free with free wine and snacks too!
More juicy details from The Student Market team: Continue Reading »
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17 November, 2010 by Kate Ho
Theory Mine – the local startup that offers personalised mathematical theorems as a novelty gift – was featured in the Herald yesterday!
The startup is headed by Flaminia Cavallo and Prof Alan Bundy and is currently based in Appleton Tower. Launching just in time for Christmas, it’s the perfect present for the maths geek in the family.
We managed to catch Flamina beaming with the newspaper article – incidentally if you think she looks familiar, she was featured earlier on this year as the winner of SIE’s new ventures competition!
Continue Reading »
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15 November, 2010 by Jessica Williamson
Happy Global Entrepreneurship Week everybody! Yes, 15th-21st of November is Global Entrepreneurship Week – “Make a job, Don’t take a job!” As it happens, there are lots of events to celebrate 🙂
Tuesday 16th November: Launch Lab – The Future, 9am at RenRoc (89-91 Montgomery)
The Launch Lab is a weekly session geared toward anyone who owns or is starting their own business. A highly varied group of energetic, intelligent people gather to exchange ideas, share critiques and encouragement, and feed each others’ vitality. The organiser of this group has just been hired (yay!) and therefore tomorrow’s event will be networking and also discussing the future and how we can take Launch Lab further by evening/future events.
Tuesday 16th November: iTunes makes a big announcement, 3pm
Any fun guesses? … Continue Reading »
Posted in Events | Tagged e-club, flaminia cavallo, if looks could kill, Interface3, itunes, Launch Lab, OpenCoffee Club, scotland, Scottish Lean Circle, social enterprise, Student Market | Leave a Comment »
15 November, 2010 by Bela Hamid
“Businesses don’t fail because of lack of funding; they fail because of lack of hope. Your first few sales will give you hope” said Julian Lloyd Evans (Dennis Publishing) at the last London Launch48 Conference (themed Top Tips for Entrepreneurs).
His advice to aspiring entrepreneurs was that you should have in mind your first 20 sales when you start up your business. Continue Reading »
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9 November, 2010 by Jessica Williamson
Wednesday 10th November: Edinburgh Tech Meetup, 6:30pm at Appleton Tower 8th Floor
A monthly gathering of folks interested in tech, from startups to developers to innocent bystanders. This month’s speakers include Jonathan Riddell – Introduction to Qt, Tony Lucas – Infrastructure as a Service, and Tane Piper – NodeJS + ExpressJS. There’s always a lot to learn, new people to meet, and oh yeah – free beer and pizza! It’s all free and open to anyone, just turn up on the 8th Floor.
Thursday 11th November: E-Club Heidi Roizen: Wow, an Inspiration! 6-8pm, Business School Auditorium
An evening of drinks, networking, and Q&A with one of Silicon Valley’s most impressive businesswomen! Heidi co-founded T/Maker Company. (an early personal computer software company) in 1983, where she served as CEO from inception through to its acquisition by Deluxe Corporation in 1994. In 1996 Heidi joined Apple as Vice President of Worldwide Developer Relations. From there, Heidi entered the venture capital world serving as a Managing Director of Mobius Venture Capital from 1999 to 2007. Today Heidi splits her time between her entrepreneurial endeavour, SkinnySongs and board service in the public, private and nonprofit sectors. Networking and drinks kick off at 6pm, and the talk will begin 6:30pm. More drinks to follow of course! Free and open to all. Continue Reading »
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9 November, 2010 by Bela Hamid
What should you think about when you want your startup to work with a multi-national company? One of the afternoon speakers at the last London Launch48 Conference was Bindi Karia (dubbed Queen of Startups) who works for Microsoft as a VC/Emerging business lead in the UK. She offered some high level and generic points to startups who want to partner with giants! Continue Reading »
Posted in Opinions | Tagged Bindi Karia, corporate giants, Microsoft, startups | 1 Comment »
5 November, 2010 by Kate Ho
If you haven’t seen it already, I did a quick summary of Launch48 using the tweets that everyone sent. But if you don’t have time and just want to skip straight to the good bits, here’s my run down of the best tweets of the weekend… (other nominations welcome)
Funniest tweet: paulanthonywils: Feck me. Someone just pitched a flying car for #launch48
Most accurate description of Launch48: @markoscharatzas: If I was to pitch #launch48 in one sentence. “A box where you put a group of strangers inside it and shake it frenzy for 48 hours”
Best Feature Request: jarofgreen: Does @zzzappa_app have a snooze button? #launch48
Worst pun: JessInScotland: Hmmm is this my solemate!?!? #launch48(#seemyjeans)http://yfrog.com/e8hprij
Best benefit of an app: @glennbuchan Run2see keeps you safe from neds and bears!#launch48
Most insightful tweet: Tech_Literate: Really good talented people aren’t looking for jobs – have to meet them through contacts and persuade them – Simon Montford #launch48
Biggest statement tweet: markoscharatzas: After #launch48 demo people said to me “great acting”,”awesome monologue”,”amazing show”.It was neither scripted nor acting but a statement.
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5 November, 2010 by Kate Ho
A few of the startupcafe team are still reeling from the crazy weekend that was, Launch48. We now have 4 more startups in Edinburgh over the period of 48 hours:
Startup summaries
Compare The Universities
CompareTheUniversities.com allows prospective students to fully investigate their options for attending universities by aggregating information about each university, programme of study, and associated tuition fees. By inputting their qualifications, skills and interests, users are provided with potential prospects for further education.
http://comparetheuniversities.tumblr.com/
run2see
For those who love to run and travel this is a one stop site. Arrive in a new city and keen for safe routes to go running? Look no further. The run2see mobile app harnesses the inbuilt GPS in smartphones to provide users with the safest running routes nearby. Along the way, the app will narrate a guided tour giving the listener interesting information about historical landmarks and sites of local significance.
http://run2see.com/ Continue Reading »
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We were blown away last week by the Student Market, the new place for young entrepreneurs to get seen and promoted. We covered the project earlier this month, and their launch event last Thursday evening was absolutely superb.
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