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Jack Griffin, a marketing guru that was part of the original 1984 Apple Mac launch team, is speaking at the first ever GlowJam on 1st Nov at 7pm.

GlowJams are a series of events ran by Swiss based Glowfori; locally, it is being organised by Creative Edinburgh (the team that was behind the logistics for the Turing Festival).

More details below. We’ve been given 5 complementary tickets to the event, so please comment here if you would like a ticket to the event.

http://edinburgh.glowfori.com
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Outside of the startup sphere, another industry facing similar issues/problems around getting traction and growth is the indie games industry.

After quite a while of gaming companies not talking to each other – there’s finally a ‘Chatham House’ style meetup for the gaming startups in Scotland (that is outside of Dundee!)

The Glasgow Mobile Games Breakfast is a monthly meetup for people in companies being hosted at the WeeWorld offices in Glasgow. It aims to tackle issues such as marketing, growth, analytics for anyone working in Mobile  and Gaming (pref both).

The next Glasgow Mobile Games Breakfast on 19th Oct at the WeeWorld offices at 19 Blythswood Square at 8.30am (yes, I know, early doors).

Entry/RSVP to Celia Francis at celia at weeworld.com.

Over the past 18 months, there’s been more and more talk about the issue of Product Management and how we can get a better understanding of the product management process inside the startup community north of the border.

As of this morning (hot off the press!) the first Product Tank has been announced for Edinburgh on 23rd Oct.

Skyscanner are very kindly hosting the event at their new offices on Quartermile – not far from the Meadows.

The event will be a meetup, alongside one or two speakers (these are still to be confirmed!)

Rachel Evatt over at Skyscanner has been driving the event, and more details will be released soon. In the meantime, add this to your calendar (like, now!)

Edit: Sign up over at Meetup.com : http://www.meetup.com/ProductTank-Edinburgh/

Join in this unique opportunity to discuss lean product management with Chris Dolezalek. A leading proponent of the ‘Lean’ movement, Chris Dolezalek, is now Senior Director of Engineering with IMVU, the online social community with over 50 million users.  Chris ‘walks the talk’ on lean, harnessing the disciplines of continuous innovation in the software engineering function to shorten product development cycles dramatically.

Immediately before joining IMVU Chris was in charge of Engineering at Yahoo! Games.  His first job was with Softlab in Germany, but he has
spent most of his career in ‘the Valley’ in roles from Director of Product Management  to VP, Engineering working also with Intuit, Informix and BroadVision which he helped lead to from pre-IPO to the fastest growing software company on NASDAQ before taking some time off to teach at Elementary Schools in the Bay area. He was lured back to the industry by Intuit to lead internal, agile startup efforts.

ScotlandIS is hosting the event and it’ll be free to Scotland IS members, cost £25+vat for startups and £45+vat for non-members and non-startups. See http://www.scotlandis.com/events/event-details/Masterclass_with_Chris_Dolazalek for more details
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Here at Startupcafe we’re great advocates of the work hard, play hard philiosphy. So, when Colin Hewitt from Float recently got in touch about the startups party he’s organising at the Turing Festival, this coming saturday, we had no choice but to make sure we’re going to be there!

So make sure you get yours too! It’ll sure be one of the most exciting places to be on Saturday night!

 http://startupparty-turing.eventbrite.com/