startups

CodeMaker by MiniBarLabs

One day coding workshop presented by MiniBarLabs

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Date: 2 April 2013
Location: Mother London, UK

Thinking Digital Announce 2nd Annual Thinking Digital Start-Up Competition 21st May

Thinking Digital

Thinking Digital Conference have partnered with Sage to bring you their second annual Thinking Digital Start-Up Competition.

Up to ten companies will be shortlisted to give a 3 minute start-up pitch before a panel of expert industry judges and a 500+ audience on the 21st of May during the pre-conference activities of Thinking Digital.

You have until the 30th of April to enter. Apply here.

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Neuro, Psych and Machine Learning - a Quick and Dirty Primer

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Reading the Dictionary

The Chinwag Psych event is coming up on May 9th and there’s a whole host of interesting presentations lined up with people who are going to speak their mind about your brain and business.

The outline for the event is of course Psychology, Neuroscience and Machine Learning. But what exactly do we mean when we throw these words out and what would the connection be to business? I think the real question you might ask is - why is this relevant to me?

Here’s a quick and dirty guide to get you thinking.

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Win a Ticket to Big Data Week London – Putting Data to Work 25th April 2013

Big Data Week

Putting Data to Work is a day long conference bringing some of smartest people from across the Big Data domain to Imperial College London and Big Data Week are offering 2 lucky Chinwag readers a chance to win a free ticket to the April 25th event.

The competition closes on April 22nd, so act quick! See below for entry details.

Big Data Week have also given us a discount code for Chinwag readers of 10% off.

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Agile Testing & BDD eXchange London 2013

Be part of an intensive day of deep technical insight and friendly discussion to learn, adopt and share new innovative ideas, tools and practices in Agile testing. Keynote speaker Gojko Adzic will be joined by an array of leading experts, including Tony Bruce, Martine Devos, David Evans, and Christian Hassa - and many more!

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Date: 22 November 2013
Location: The Skills Matter eXchange, UK

Chinwag Psych Reading Material Round-Up

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Kindle

Chinwag Psych May 9, is a conference and online publication covering psychology, neuroscience and machine learning for business and marketing. 

To give you a run down of the most interesting articles on the internet this week Jamillah has curated a list for your reading pleasure.  

To grab a ticket for the event there are some great deals available, simply click here, to find out more.

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Frankfurt Rhein-Main MongoDB User Group: MongoDB Replication/Sharding

MongoDB Replication and Sharding

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Date: 24 April 2013
Location: TBC, DE

MongoDB + Node.js + ODM = Mongoose.js

Mongoose is the most popular MongoDB ODM for Node.js and is supported by 10gen. This talk will include both an introduction with some code examples and a suggestion to how you could structure files and code in your app.

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Date: 23 April 2013
Location: Valtech, SE

Tech Success - Discover the secret to building a £million pound company.

Tech Success - Discover the secret to building a £million pound company. More than 5 Serial Entrepreneurs are descending on London to reveal the secrets to their success and how they have built over 8 successful companies in just a few years.

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Date: 5 April 2013
Location: Dexter House, UK

Get Involved in Chinwag's Careers Day @ Digital Shoreditch 2013

BL-NK

Chinwag has rejoined Digital Shoreditch to bring you the biggest and best Careers Day so far, taking place on Friday 24th May. 

The aim is to find and fill roles within the digital industry.  Here's a scoop: news of the location and a preview of the first companies who will be exhibiting.

Get your free ticket here.

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Two Heads Are Better Than One

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Boogie Brains

Two heads are better than one, or so the saying goes.

Chinwag Psych is hosting a conference on May 9th exposing the secrets of neuromarketing, big data and machine learning, leaving science fiction to the silver screen.

Nathalie Nahai - The Web Psychologist is speaking at Chinwag Psych she is also hosting a masterclass on April 17 with Jo James bringing you their expertise to optimise sales through your website.

We have partnered with Nathalie to offer all you Chinwaggers a special ticket for both events for just £499. Get them while they are hot.

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Let's meet and talk about e-mail. With a few beers ;-)

We love email. Do you?

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Date: 11 April 2013
Location: The Windmill‎, London, UK

Enterprising Music Redux - The only Way is DIY [video]

Neon Notes

Enterprising Music brought together entrepreneurs, start-ups and individuals eager to join the music business.

Waiting for the next business guru proclamation and 'perfect' new music business model may seem like a good plan but are you really just procrastinating?

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Accountancy in the 21st Century - at the MOO Shop

Accountancy might not be glamorous, but it's absolutely essential - so why not make yours painless? Join Perry Lower, Senior Accountant at Crunch Accounting, and learn how to combine cloud technology with expert support to make your book keeping time and money efficient. Plus, ask anything about RTI and the 2013 budget in the Q&A session to follow.

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Date: 24 April 2013
Location: The MOO Shop, Unit 27, BOXPARK, UK

Start-Up Diaries: Tips for Brits taking on the US

Table Crowd New York

I was part of Digital Mission to New York, and picked up some great tips for UK businesses wanting to take a bite out of the Big Apple and beyond.

Here’s a round-up of the key things you need to know before heading Stateside.

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