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October 7, 2011
Are you passionate about the web, web standards, HTML5, CSS3, and how new technologies can help to improve our world and be used innovatively?
If you are then you may want to consider attending Mozilla Festival on November the 4 to 6 at Ravensbourne College in London. The event will be an interesting mixture of different industries to make for a mamouth hackday event including people from:
- developers
- gamers
- designers
- teachers
- reporters and journalists
- activists
Overall it looks very exciting and it will be a great events. What’s more it is being run by the fantastic guys at Mozilla, so I have no doubt it will be worthwhile.
Purchase your ticket from here.
by ian |
September 25, 2011
Calling all Aussies, the next Launch48 Australia event has been announced.
After the success of Launch48 Melbourne earlier this year and the level of interest in a Sydney event, Grant, Daniel, and Tim have organised their second event.
When Fri Oct 28 (from 6 pm) to Sun Oct 30 (to 9 pm) – The same dates as Launch48 London.
Where Atlassian, 173-185 Sussex Street, Sydney (map)
How Get tickets here
by ian |
CEME Innovation Centre, to the west of London in a fantastic new building, is offering 11 prizes to promising new startups. If you send them your business plan you could win the major prize of:
- Meeting or conference room at the CEME Conference Centre, a great venue for a product launch or promotional event – I’ve seen it and it really is awesome.
- Office or workshop space at CEME Innovation Centre for one year
- Support developing a marketing strategy and plan
- A business mentor and a tailored package of workshops
- Meeting with an Angel Investor Manager
- HR Support
- Cash
10 runners up will receive:
- A half days meeting or conference room at CEME Innovation Centre
- A year’s free Virtual Office service at CEME Innovation Centre
- A tailored package of workshops
All you have to do is email d.nix@oxin.co.uk your business plan. For more information see http://www.launchpadceme.co.uk/
by ian |
September 17, 2011
Are you new to pitching? Do you want to quickly learn what works and doesn’t?
Techpitch 4.5 is coming up on the 5th of October with keynote speaker Steve O’Hear who founded Beepl and writed for TechCrunch Europe and other blogs.
They will also have a number of startups pitching whose pitches will be reviewed by a panel including:
- Danvers Baillieu, Bootlaw and Pinsent and Masons
- Harry Briggs, Balderton Capital
- Robert Higginson, Par Equity
- Femi Adesina, Girlygeekdom + creative technologist
- Liz Wilson, Albion
- Steve O’Hear, beepl
Tickets are available now for just over £20.00 when you enter ‘LAUNCH48′ as the discount code on www.4pt5.co.uk
by ian |
September 9, 2011
Launch48 has partnered with Viadeo to help host their first Viadeo Hackday. The event is being held at Innovation Warehouse near Farringdon Tube from 6:30 pm on Friday 30th September until 7.30pm on Saturday October 1st.
It is a FREE event with Viadeo supplying plenty of food and drink to keep all attendees hacking for a full 24 hours. The event is intended for developers, designers, and startups to learn about Viadeo’s APIs and hack either a new app together or integrate their technology into an existing app.
You should come if you love APIs, want to meet other devs and designers and enjoy free pizza and beer! Participants will also get the opportunity to win great prizes including an all-expenses paid trip to Le Web in Paris.
Register at http://dev.viadeo.com/londonhackday
by ian |
August 23, 2011
Launch48 and UCL are holding the first London Launch48 event of 2011 at UCL. We are very excited as we haven’t run an event in central London for over 2 years, and this event will be held in the center of London.
This event has already received numerous enquiries about mentoring and attending. Unfortunately we are only offering limited tickets in order to ensure all attendees receive appropriate attention from mentors and sponsors, and to ensure we can keep team sizes reasonble.
When: Friday the 28th of October to Sunday 30th of October. See the agenda for full details
Where: UCL Engineering Front Building, Torrington Place, London, WC1E 6. See the directions for a map and accommodation
Cost: From £29.95 including drinks on Friday and drinks and pizza on Sunday. Purchase tickets now
Bring: Business ideas, creativity, business cards, laptop/tablet
We hope you can make it!
by ian |
August 9, 2011
The Startup Leadership Program is a 6 month program spread across a few Saturdays and 12 evening classes. The program covers a wide range of topics that are relevant to people starting their own business and it sounds like it builds a strong bond between all who attend the event.
Statistics show that previous participants in the program have typically been in the technology field and together they have raised over $90 million in VC funding. Last year over 140 people participated in the program globally.
It sounds like a great program that offers a lot to its participants. Applications are screened and only the best people are accepted, the London program will only accept 25 participants. If the participant can afford it, the program does ask for £250.00 from each participant.
If you would like more information or apply visit the London Chapter site. Applications close on the 15th of August.
by ian |
August 1, 2011
Capital on Stage is a bit of a different conference, instead of startups pitching and investors listening they are attempting to turn the process on it’s head. They hope investors will present and startups will listen.
This is a very interesting concept and I think it could be very valuable to startups who attend as they will hear from investors:
- their views on the market
- their added value
- what they’re looking for in their next investments
The organisers have partnered with startup events, incubators, and accelerators such as Launch48 to ensure the audience contains high-growth, scalable startups. Attendees will be able to book 20 minutes with different investors in the morning to discuss their business ideas with them.
If you would like to attend the event on the 14th of September 2011 in Amsterdam please complete this form and mention you’re from Launch48 so they know you’ve received some prior training.
by ian |
July 26, 2011
In the last few days I have heard of 2 great startups launching into beta on opposite sides of the world. Both startups hope to help the community through connecting people to each other but for different reasons:
Teaching through WeTeachMe
WeTeachMe connects people who have a skill to share, with people who want to learn. It allows teachers to create a lesson and students can search and book via the site.
WeTeachMe started at Launch48 Melbourne earlier this year. Since then the team has shrunk but continued to work hard to release an updated version of their product. They are currently focussed on 5 countries including the UK, US, and Australia and are using PayPal to manage payment. They intended to make money through a sales commission model.
http://weteachme.com
Tasks through Tasksauce
Tasksauce is a simple system allows visitors to list odd jobs they need filling, a bit like Mechanical Turk but for physical as well as virtual tasks. Their model is similar to Task Rabbit in the US that has experienced strong growth.
People who have a task list it on the site and state how much they will pay, the money is held until the job is completed and the funds are released. Anyone can apply to do the tasks although they must have a credit check done which helps to ensure only serious people will apply to perform the task.
http://www.tasksauce.com
by ian |
July 20, 2011
Going Going Bike has been listed as a finalist in the Venture Candy competition run by Metro Newspaper and they need your help to win it! Please vote for them now and support startups within the Launch48 community.
Going Going Bike is a startup helping people to buy and sell bikes as well as other complimentary services. To date they have funded the business themselves and they are looking to raise £300,000.00 to assist them to grow the business. Winning this competition will help them by giving them access to a wide variety of services including promotion in the Metro newspaper worth £50,000.00.
James, from Going Going Bike, attended our recent Launch48 Kingston event. It was great to hear that they were rapidly expanding yet he was still keen to spend a weekend exploring new business ideas and working with other entrepreneurs.
Vote for them now! It only takes 3 seconds.
Learn more about Going Going Bike or the Venture Candy competition.
by ian |
