London Silicon Roundabout Weekly Newsletter

ISSUE 10 February 2012 Dear LSR Member, The agenda is now complete for next weeks Startup Masterclass on best practice in mobile app development and marketing. This is an evening where four knowledgeable speakers will cover the things you wont learn from a textbook but only by doing - great for anyone who has already launched a mobile app or is thinking about it. Weekend of 24-26 Feb is the BeMyApp mobile app hackathon where you can put all that advice into good use. This event is something between a Startup Weekend and a traditional hack weekend: if you have an idea for an app, come and pitch it on Friday night; form a team around it and build a prototype. The winners of the hackathon will of course get some outstanding prizes and they'll also be entered into a competition between 5 other cities who are running BeMyApp over the same weekend: Berlin, Paris, New York, San Francisco and Dallas. So join in and let's show everyone that London is the best! BeMyApp is open to anyone who wants to bring their skills to a team. So, if youre a developer, marketer, designer or app idea generator, join us! We already have over 60 people now registered via various channels and some great sponsors on board including Cloudbees and Mashery who will be there to give access to their developer tools over the weekend and will be on hand to mentor teams that want to try out their services over the weekend. Enjoy the snow! Olga olga[at]techmeetups[dot]com London Silicon Roundabout Group

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EVENTS LONDON Startup Masterclass: Best Practice in Mobile App Development and Marketing February 15, 2012 Venue: Innovation Warehouse [ RSVP HERE ] London Silicon Roundabout February Meetup BeMyApp Mobile Olympics 2012 February 24 26, 2012 Venue: Innovation Warehouse [ RSVP HERE ] EcomSummit - London Silicon Roundabout March Meetup March 15, 2012 Venue: Innovation Warehouse [ RSVP HERE ]

13- Feb: Funding for early stage and start-up businesses 13- Feb: London Web Standards - February 13- Feb: Twitter, The Butterfly Effect and The Future of Journalism 13- Feb: Social Media Week London 2012 13- Feb: Social Media for SME's 13- Feb: Eric Evans Domain Driven Design Hands-on Immersion Workshop 14- Feb: Broadcast Video Expo 2012 15-Feb: Are you profiting from the Web? 15-Feb: Brant Cooper - Full-day Customer Development Workshop 15-Feb: Feb Magneto meet, A-listers on HTML5, MongoDB and PHP - PART I, thanks to getbrandid.com 16-Feb: Social Media for your brand - Taking your brand into the social web... and coming out on top 16-Feb: Facebook Developer Garage London February 2012 16-Feb: Online Marketing Network - London 16-Feb: SILICON HACKNEY - HACKNEY TECH MAKERS

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17-Feb: Social Media Governance: Six Stories 17-Feb: Social media + digital commerce = online success 17-Feb: The Social Media Governance Forum 13-Feb: The Socially Successful Business Explained with BBC News Social Media Expert, Matt Hodkinson 15-Feb: Brant Cooper - Full-day Customer Development Workshop 15- Feb: Hub Legal Talk - Data Protection 16-Feb: Chelmsford Innovation Group startup meeting 16-Feb: The Business Boot Camp for Digital Entrepreneurs 17-Feb: The Ultimate Business Start-up Seminar and Networking Night 01-Mar: Angel Investors - The Full DNA From The Expert! IN THE NEWS Technology Firms Upgrade Office Space Demand February 08, 2012 The flurry of tech-orientated firms snapping up office in Central London should underpin a long-term confidence in the market according to Knight with the arrival of Apple, Facebook and Google helping to double the up-take of office space secured by the technology sector during 2011. How Google will court startups at London Campus February 08, 2012 Updated: When the news broke a few months ago that Google was taking up a lease on a seven-storey building in East London, it wasnt exactly clear what the Internet giant wanted the space for. There were some vague mentions of a creative space and hackathons but in reality it all seemed a little vague. Fears of a mild recession across Europe February 06, 2012 The projection for global output has been revised downwards to 3.25% in 2012 amidst expectations of a mild recession across the euro area. A rise in sovereign yields, effects of bank deleveraging on the real economy and the impact of additional fiscal consolidation have all served to decrease market confidence in Europe. Ian Burrell: Time to build a legacy now the big boys have arrived at Silicon Roundabout February 06, 2012

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Google will this week announce plans for its seven-storey campus near east Londons Silicon Roundabout. Twitter arrived in the area last year through its acquisition of the UK business TweetDeck and now Foursquare, the location-based social-networking site from New York, is moving into the neighborhood. Steel City son David Richards stands out from Silicon crowd with a Made in Sheffield twist February 06, 2012 However, the Steel City calls a tiny portion of the worlds technology capital its own because Sheffield entrepreneur David Richards leads Wandisco, which has found an unwieldy name, is no obstacle to its software being used by 5m companies. We have also created subject specific Newspapers on Mobile Apps, Gaming, Startups, Cloud Computing, & London Silicon Roundabout JOBS Ruby and JavaScript Programmer (other languages may be OK!) @ bullresearch (Full-Time) The team is looking to teach a keen recruit the tricks of the trade, so while commercial experience can only be a benefit, we are looking for evidence that you have a passion for programming. If youre good enough for this job, we expect you to teach us a thing or too as well. Technical Co Founder/CTO @ Nutshell (Part-Time) Nutshell is looking for a technical co-founder/CTO to be able to build on the first Nutshell iteration and then provide the inspiration and technical capabilities behind developing Nutshell 2.0 which will be quickly iterated from the launch clients feedback. The ability to deliver a high quality site as the development requests come in will make or break the potential huge success that Nutshell is on the brink of exploiting. Android Developer @ ribot (Full-Time) Well, were a group of designers, developers and general tech tinkerers who have come together to make future interfaces simpler and more helpful. Were based by the sea down in Brighton, work with Tesco, Google, Intel, Swiftkey & others and weve been around for some 5 years now.

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Senior Ruby Developer @ Shutl (Full-Time) Shutl is looking for a Senior Ruby Developer and Agile Evangelist to join our exciting London based tech startup. This is a tremendous opportunity to join a high profile/growth venture backed business with an awesome team that is making some major waves. The right candidate will join Shutls engineering team based in Shoreditch, and will be instrumental in architecting, designing, building, and scaling the Shutl technology platform. If you have a job you would like to promote post it at TechStartupJobs READING & VIEWING Techs top innovators livemint The Entrepreneurs Dilemma: Bootstrapping Versus Venture Capital FUELED Tech City webinar presentation January 2012 slideshare Facebook IPO Filing Reveals Its Stunning Size: A Private Jet, $1 Billion In Profits, And More Huffington Post New program lures startups to St. Louis ST.Louis American Attention Entrepreneurs! First New York Tech Day to Showcase 200+ NYC Startups! Examiner Startup Spotlight: Ex-Amazon and Boeing data center experts launch Vizualiiz Geek Wire 5 Big Takeaways from Lean Startup Machine Toronto Jason Little

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