startups

Being Local

A half-day workshop and case study session that will showcase advancements in local services and provide organisations delivering or developing ‘local’ services (advertising agencies, Media, TV, News, local & central government, web businesses, directories, local businesses and local services) with a framework for developing them.

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Date: 6 July 2010
Location: London - TBA, UK

COINS CODING - A FREE SEMINAR on 2 JULY

A short seminar on 2 July from 0930 to 1230 aimed at developers and others that are using the released COINS data to generate systems or other on-line capabilities to allow the public to access the released data.

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Date: 2 July 2010
Location: The Treasury, UK

Lessons in Open Metadata

the tube by realSMILEY

The recipe? A large public(ish) organisation (TfL) opens its data kimono to developers. Six days later, a group of geeks gather for a hack-day and a thing of beauty is born, the live tube map.

Have a look. It's rather addictive, like watching the download bar on a browser slowly creep across the screen (just me?). Congratulations to Matthew Somerville (@dracos) for hacking this together so quickly.

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MiniBar workshop: Web Analytics

To optimize return on investment you need to measure how users react to campaigns and most importantly what makes a visit into a sale (conversion). In this workshop we will introduce tools and techniques used analyze web traffic.

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Date: 15 September 2010
Location: Young Foundation, UK

MiniBar workshop: Search Engine Optimisation

To show up first in organic search on Google and Bing is what every business wants, but the methods people hear about to get there sound too often like black magic. There are, however, tried and tested strategies that enhance your ranking for a variety of search terms relevant to your business.

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Date: 1 September 2010
Location: Young Foundation, UK

Music 4.5 goes practical

How to use local, social and cultural content and grow globally: The focus is to discuss different business strategies for music and music tech companies, and what their implications are from a legal, financial and international point of view.

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Date: 16 September 2010
Location: Central London location TBA, UK

MiniBar workshop: Effective Online Marketing with Social Media

At this workshop, social media experts will introduce you to several strategies on how to turn social media tools such as, Facebook, Twitter, and the blogosphere into powerful marketing devices.

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Date: 21 July 2010
Location: Young Foundation, UK

MiniBar workshop: Effective Software Development Management

The workshop will cover different management methods such as ‘agile software management’ and what processes to use to arrive at a web development plan that translates business goals into achievable and workable web implementation.

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Date: 7 July 2010
Location: Young Foundation, UK

Mini Seedcamp London

Mini Seedcamp London is a one day event aiming to connect the 20 best web-tech, mobile and software talent with some of the leading entrepreneurs, developers, and experts from the European tech ecosystem.

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Date: 20 July 2010
Location: University College London, UK

Music 4.5 Licensing Workshop

The Music 4.5 Licensing Workshop is created to stimulate a new productive dialogue between music-tech startups and the regulatory industry. The Workshop will feature Eric Mackay of CELAS, PRS for Music, Beth Appleton from Universal Music Group and Clive Gardiner from We7.

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Date: 29 June 2010
Location: PRS for Music (Boardroom), UK

S4Stv presents Perfect Your Pitch-Doug Richard at UCL June21

Are you pitch perfect? Refining your business pitch is a real skill, but a skill that must be acquired to ensure you can give your product, service or concept the justice it deserves. A lousy pitch can be the breaking of an otherwise potentially great business. So if your pitch needs perfecting, this completely free event is the one for you!

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Date: 21 June 2010
Location: University College London, Wilkins Building, Old Refectory Room, UK

£18m Collaborative R&D, Partnering for Innovation Tour Visits Bristol and London

Sian Brereton, Technology Strategy BoardUPDATE: If you're not able to make it along, follow on Twitter #tsbcollab. Presentations will be available as videos in next couple of days.

This week we're off to The Watershed in Bristol on Wednesday (2nd June) and the Internet Advertising Bureau in London on Thursday (3rd June).

These events are part of the Partnering for Innovation tour Chinwag is helping to organise, to support the launch of the £18m Collaboration Across Digital Industries competition.

There's still a few spaces left for the Bristol event, don't forget to RSVP to secure one.

If you're after more background about this competition, don't forget to check out the videos we blogged last week with Alex Stanhope from the Technology Strategy Board (TSB).

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Bootlaw June 2010 – Sex, Lies and Money

In our June 23rd Bootlaw, just so we can tell Bootlawyers all they need to know about the Emergency Budget the day before, we’re going to stay up really late just for you working out what it means for entrepreneurs and growth businesses.

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Date: 23 June 2010
Location: Winston & Strawn, UK

Tech Mission London 2010

Tech Mission London 2010 (#TML10) provides a dynamic environment for Northern Tech community (tech entrepreneurs, investors, deal makers and service providers) to engage with their counterparts from London.

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Date: 15 June 2010
Location: Paypal London, UK

Win Tickets for London Startup Weekend, 4-6th June

Startup Weekend

UPDATE: Win £1,500 worth of shared office space rental.

Summer's here, although saying that alone has probably jinxed the bank holiday weekend to three days of drizzle.

For budding entrepreneurs, the weekend offers some time free of distractions to focus on developing their startups, which is why the London Startup Weekend, sounds intriguing.

The team at Startup Weekend have very kindly offered Chinwag readers a chance to win two tickets to the event (enter here), and if you can't wait there's also a special 25% discount (use code chinwag00).

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