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November 1, 2011
The following teams presented at Launch48 Sydney earlier this year, this is another great set of business ideas:
Happy Tribe – A platform to connect charities, individuals and corporations to coordinate and aggregate social contributions. Gives people a place to track their many social contributions to various charities and causes and gives corporates a tool for managing the volunteer effort in their Corporate Social Responsibility, CSR initiatives.
Sitting Social – Connecting pet lovers so they can look after each others pets on holidays and coordinating pet events like get togethers.
Give Teams – A platform to make group gift giving easier, get people together, organise contributions and select a gift all in the one place. Takes the hassle out of chasing people and simplifies the endless back and forth when organising groups to give for 21st birthdays, weddings or farewells at work.
Locongo – Real People. Unreal Experiences. Connecting real locals with travellers looking for an authentic, local experience.
by ian |
October 31, 2011
Thank you to everyone who attended Launch48 London including our fantastic sponsors X.com, Viadeo and our special hosts UCL Enterprise Society. Thanks for the last minute support from Springboard for the pizza on Sunday night too!
The final presentations were a lot of fun with 75 attendees and 5 teams presenting, below are the URLs and a description. Note – the sites are unfinished:
Eat In The Street – The street food vendor directory site collected a number of vendor’s from Bricklane Market and created their own branded stickers which most people at Launch48 on Sunday ended up wearing.
Float My Note – A system to anonymously post content (balloons) online and support anonymous responses. Users have the ability to track a balloon to see other people’s comments.
Beauty Minis – A system that will capture cosmetic preference data from users then work with cosmetic brands to send relevant samples to key users. After the user receives a sample additional data will be collected and fed back to to the brands.
Styletab – A tablet-based system for browsing and purchasing products. It offers a refined interface that is specifically suited to tablets.
CarTime – Attempting to fix car sharing by focussing on specific areas in the UK and adding value to car sharing such as learning French or listening to a genre of music.
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by ian |
October 7, 2011
Seedcamp has released a new document designed to help early stage companies start working together.
The Seedcamp web site states the document:
is designed for a newly formed team to agree on what each founder’s shareholding should be as well as how to make sure that each founder puts a continued effort throughout the lifetime of the company in order to keep their equity stake.
You can download the documents now from the Seedcamp web site.
by ian |
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 |
