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StartupCafe Opens Coffee Shop in George Square

1 April, 2010 by Jessica Williamson

It’s about time! Entrepreneurs in Edinburgh can now enjoy coffee, tea, cupcakes, and free wifi without having to stress about their weekly budgets or office rent. A new cafe, run by yours truly at StartupCafe, is opening its doors this weekend in time for an Easter themed celebration.

The cafe has been many months in the making, and with generous funding finally secured in the new year, we’re delighted to finally make this resource available to local startups. Whether you have an idea you want to develop or a business to grow, you can take advantage of the cafe’s hotdesk offering and of course the free coffee and cakes. Part of the space is sectioned off into meeting rooms, so you can have a more private area to meet with clients or think in peace when needed. How about storing papers and equipment? A vast number of lockers and drawers are ready to be claimed for your convenience.

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Events Menu: 29 March – 4 April

29 March, 2010 by Jessica Williamson

FYI Sign up now: MIT Workshop: 12-13 April in Stirling

Designing, Building and Leading World-Class Management Teams

Sponsored by Informatics Ventures, the workshop is free for companies that are technology/science based, high-growth and based in Scotland with under 250 employees and less than €50M turnover. For everyone else it is £495. Detailed brochure is at: http://www.informatics-ventures.com/teams.pdf

Monday 29th March: ELEVATOR Business Networking, 6:30pm at Why Not? (George Street)

A free monthly event from PSYBT, ELEVATOR is for anyone 18-30 involved in a startup or who’d like to set up a company. Mingle with like-minded people, learn from the evening’s presenter, shout out in the quick pitches, and enjoy free drinks and a light supper too! I’ve somehow never made it but hear great things from folks who have gone. For more info, contact Rosie Dowie on 0131 347 9831 or edinburghelevator@psybt.org.uk, but I think you can just show up from 6pm.

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Launch.ed Innovation Cup – £5k cash prize

26 March, 2010 by Kate Ho

The very active Launch.ed team have come up with another competition to stimulate the student/recent graduates at Edinburgh University into enterprise. In true Launch.ed fashion – they don’t disappoint – with a 5k cash prize, alongside 3 runner up prizes of £1k. Continue Reading »

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Fancy 50% towards a patent?

25 March, 2010 by Kate Ho

It looks like SIE (alongside Launch.ed) are providing funding for students and recent graduates that are looking to patent their technology/product.

According to the latest Launch.ed newsletter, recent MSc graduate, Alex Cole, has scooped a SIE patent fund which gave him 50% to process his gesture computing technology. Continue Reading »

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Missed SXSW? Live and Learn Vicariously

23 March, 2010 by Jessica Williamson

Well, we couldn’t all make it to Austin this month for the rush and excitement that is South By Southwest (SXSW). But that doesn’t mean we have to miss out on all the lessons and ideas that were exchanged last week in the lone star state.

While SXSW is a big music and film scene, it is also a breeding ground for innovation. The full festival is divided into three parts, Music + Film + Interactive, with the latter described as:

An incubator of cutting-edge technologies, the SXSW® Interactive Festival brings together the world’s most creative web developers, designers, bloggers, wireless innovators, content producers, programmers, widget inventors and Continue Reading »

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Investor Showcase: Apply by Thursday 1pm

23 March, 2010 by Jessica Williamson

Calling all startups/spinouts in the tech scene – including Mobile, Gaming, BioTech, CleanTech and beyond…

It’s that time of year again. Engage|Invest|Exploit’s Investor Showcase is back 12th May 2010, and you’d better apply now if you want to be part of it. For the annual extravaganza, 50 of the hottest startups and spinouts from across Scotland will come together in Edinburgh to show off the informatics and computer science talent this country is bringing to the world.

And yes, try to beat this offer, it’s FREE to exhibit if you are selected. After dealing with some other tradeshow prices recently, I cannot believe what a nice deal this is from Informatics Ventures. Information from Andrew Mitchell below, and apply here now if you are interested.

Just a quick update on the annual investor showcase being organised by the School of Informatics and Informatics Ventures. EIE’10: http://www.eie10.com/ Continue Reading »

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Events Menu: 22-28 March

22 March, 2010 by Jessica Williamson

Monday, 21st March: JCI Showcase, 6pm at Royal Terrace Hotel

Never heard of JCI (Junior Chamber International)? You will have the opportunity to find out more about the organisation over a glass of wine or two and some nibbles whilst meeting some of our members and hearing more about what they have got from being a member of JCI. You will also have the chance to find out more about our programme of events, as well as meeting some of our patron organisations. For more info contact Laura Hutton laura_hutton@jciedinburgh.org.uk. I would guess you can still RSVP for tonight, so do check it out if you’re interested.

Tuesday, 22nd March: E-Club Committee Interest Meeting, 5:30-6:30pm at Business School LT3

For the first time, the Edinburgh Entrepreneurship Club is forming a committee to drive the club forward with more power and zest, and anyone is welcome to get involved. Want to help organise new events? Want to reach out to other cool groups? Want to initiate other projects within the club? If you are interested, either for the next few months or for the Fall, join in 5:30pm in Lecture Theatre 3 for an initial discussion. Or email entrepreneurship@ed.ac.uk. Continue Reading »

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Want to know about Edinburgh startups? Check out our new page

22 March, 2010 by Kate Ho

One of the core, unwavering goals that we had when we founded StartupCafe, was to have a place where young Edinburgh-based startups can get heard, featured and talked about. This grew partly out of our frustrations that there was no central place for this type of news: it was too small to be picked up by local newspapers or big Blogs like TechCrunch, but yet, big enough for startups to get excited about.

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Flaminia scoops SIE New Ventures prize!

22 March, 2010 by Kate Ho

Flaminia Cavallo (Theory Mine/Vanity Theorems) won 1st Prize in the Scottish Institution of Enterprise’s (SIE) New Venture Competition! Flaminia, who is based on the 6th floor at Appleton Tower, is commericalising research based on her final year project which was supervised by the legendary Prof Alan Bundy at the School of Informatics. Continue Reading »

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Heads up on Headsup development Beta Launch!

18 March, 2010 by Kate Ho

Local startup Heads up Development is aiming to enhance software development through intelligent engineering tools (which is much welcomed, as I’m sure any developer will tell you).

The company, started by Andrew Williams, is currently one of the many companies being nutured in the Edinburgh Pre-Incubator Scheme (EPIS). He started building the tool around 18 months ago, when he noticed the challenge of conveying the progress of a software project from developer to manager, especially since progress on software projects tend not to be as straightforward and linear as other tasks (e.g. construction).

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