business & innovation

TechHub Founders' Secrets with Kieran O'Neill of Playfire

How do you survive funding rounds nearly falling apart the day before signing, co-founder problems AND nearly being sued by Disney, while still managing to build and sell 3 companies?

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Date: 20 November 2012
Location: TechHub @ Campus, UK

Looking to Set Up in NYC? Take the H.E.L.M

lower manhattan

The history of New York City is interwoven with the growth and development of Lower Manhattan. Here, merchants landed from abroad bringing with them wares to spur a new economy. Here, traders gathered beneath a cherry tree to swap goods – actions that would lead to the establishment of a stock market.

More recently, $30 billion in infrastructure investment has attracted a new type of merchant – one that harnesses intellectual capital and creative ingenuity – and has brought thousands of new residents and businesses to Lower Manhattan.

To encourage growth, Take the HELM is looking to award four $250,000 cash grants to the following types of companies:

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12 November 2012 by Lauren Cotton

TechHub and Elance present 'Learn to Bootstrap Your Startup with Online Freelancers'

How to take advantage of online freelancers whilst building your startup

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Date: 11 December 2012
Location: TechHub @ Campus, UK

Web effectiveness workshop

This practical workshop is designed for communications professionals wishing to assess and build on the effectiveness of their websites.

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Date: 12 December 2013
Location: London, UK

TechHub Venture Capital Finance Workshop with W&B Legal

A case-study based workshop that will focus on the legal aspects of raising venture capital finance

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Date: 28 November 2012
Location: TechHub @ Campus, UK

Digital impact conference

This event explores emerging trends, challenges and examples of innovation and best practice in digital communications.

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Date: 18 July 2013
Location: London, UK

A Snip Above The Rest - Programme Announced for Enterprising Fashion (14 Nov)

fashion

Taking place next week, Enterprising Fashion will bring together experienced entrepreneurs, recent startups and individuals eager to join the fashion industry.

Covering everything from data-driven fashion to 3D printing, fast fashion and sustainable brands, you'll hear from industry leaders and there'll also be a chance to pool knowledge in a collaborative 'ideas exchange' session.

The full programme has just been announced, get ready for a busy and insightful day...

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9 November 2012 by Lauren Cotton

JUMP VIP Party @ The 40/40 Club

Join us at the once in a year JUMP VIP Party! The JUMP VIP Party will be hosted at the 40/40 club, the all-American sports bar and lounge owned by hip hop mogul Jay-Z. Turn up, buy drinks, talk, network and meet interesting digital folks, speakers, sponsors and attendees of JUMP.

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Date: 30 January 2013
Location: The 40/40 Club, US

JUMP

Join 40 international experts and 750 of the brightest senior online and offline marketers in the business for a one-day conference dedicated to affecting the change that will bring more intelligent, more effective and more joined up marketing.

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Date: 30 January 2013
Location: The Metropolitan Pavillon, US

Robert Schneider's Mission Critical Service Testing Using soapUI Pro

If you are a Software Developer or Architect, QA Tester, IT Manager or Web Professional who wants to learn how to employ test automation to improve the quality of your software projects, this course is for you!

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Date: 6 December 2012
Location: MWB Business Exchange, UK

Typesafe's Fast Track to Scala

This two-day Fast Track to Scala course, designed by Martin Odersky, the creator of the Scala programming language, and Heiko Seeberger, a recognized Scala expert, will give you an excellent grounding in Scala.

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Date: 10 December 2012
Location: MWB Business Exchange, UK

Pioneers of Digital: TED Talk’s June Cohen on the Early Days of Online Video

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Pioneers of Digital is a new book that tells the success stories behind people who have done amazing things on the web.

In the year or so it took us to write it, we interviewed twenty of the brightest minds in advertising, marketing, search and social media, documenting their career journeys (warts and all) and extracting these Pioneers’ reflections on their achievements, often for the very first time.

In this excerpt, June Cohen from TED reminisces about her early career at Stanford and Hotwired giving a fascinating account of the invaluable experience that end up leading to her help launch TED Talks on a myriad of digital devices and online platforms.

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8 November 2012 by Chinwag Team

Brian Sletten's REST and Resource-Oriented Architecture Bootcamp

If you are an experienced developer with a broad background in modern software development (and an open mind), this course is for you. If you are a junior-to-mid-level developer, you will have fewer bad ideas to unlearn, but we will cover a lot of material.

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Date: 10 December 2012
Location: MWB Business Exchange, UK

Ayende Rahien's NHibernate 3.0 Workshop

If you are an enterprise .NET developer and you are keen to learn how to use NHibernate O/R mapping tool efficiently in your applications to save time and effort on communicating with database storage, this Nhibernate course is for you!

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Date: 26 November 2012
Location: MWB Business Exchange, UK

Ian Robinson and Jim Webber's Neo4j Tutorial

COURSE PREREQUISITES You don't need any previous experience with Neo4j or NOSQL databases, but will require some fluency in Java, a little familiarity with a modern IDE, and a basic understanding of JUnit to help complete the lab tasks and benefit from this Neo4J tutorial.

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Date: 29 November 2012
Location: MWB Business Exchange, UK