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ISSUE 09 SEPTEMBER 2011

Hi, A big Thank you to all members for coming over for our Sep meetup CloudBase at Hackney Community College. Apologies to those who were on the waiting list due to venue limitations & couldn't make it. We promise to have a bigger venue for our next meetup on Thu the 6th of Oct.

UPCOMING EVENTS London Silicon Roundabout October Meetup Crowd Camp October 6, 2011 (Thursday) 6:00 PM Innovation Warehouse, 1 East Poultry, 1st Floor, EC1A 9PT London [ RSVP HERE ] Techmeetups Events 12-Sep: StartHubClass 21-Oct: BeMyAppWeekend 03-Nov: London Silicon Roundabout November Meetup SocMed 21-Nov: Investor Day 01-Dec: Big Business Meets Startup 12-Sep: London Ruby User Group September 2011 13-Sep: London Ajax User Group Meetup: MooTools, Dojo, jQuery, and PhoneGap 14-Sep: Progressive Scala Tutorials

14-Sep: LiDG 31 14-Sep: Practical Scalaz: making your life easier the hard way 14-Sep: Big Data London Meetup 14-Sep: Start it Up: Creating a successful enterprise 15-Sep: Geomob September 2011 15-Sep: London Scala Dojo 16-Sep: Lean Startup Machine - London 2011 16-Sep: Insiders guide to bootstrapping a high growth focused start-up 16-Sep: The Future of Mobile 26-Sep: London New Finance Technology - September meetup - Market needs We hope to see you at some of these meetups. Do let us know if you would like us to organise meetups on any other subject or topic. If you have an Event you would like to promote let us know

IN THE NEWS Claire Beale: We need more support for creative industries September 8, 2011 One of the best things about the advertising industry is the thriving sense of community it still has, even though so many agencies have drifted away from the Soho streets that used to form the industrys spine. Eric van der Kleij: No 10 guru set to super charge UKs Tech City September 8, 2011 The Business Interview: Entrepreneur is sure that London will soon rival other global cyber centres.

An Interview with Joe, CEO and Co-founder of inboxQ September 7, 2011 We monitor Twitter for real, answerable questions being asked on Twitter. Anyone can download InboxQ for Chrome or Firefox or visit InboxQ The UKs Silicon Valley: Is It a Roundabout? Does it Exist? September 7, 2011 Silicon Valley has been the catch-all name for the USs entire high tech industry since the first semiconductor businesses moved into the Santa Clara Valley, south east of San Francisco back in the 1960s. Tech City UK visits LBi September 7, 2011 We welcomed special guests from Tech City UK for a breakfast meeting in our Brick Lane space this morning. Government advistors, entrepreneurs and other members of the East London tech scene gathered to discuss ideas, projects and opportunities centered around the Silicon Roundabout and East London. Can Silicon Roundabout challenge Silicon Valley? September 7, 2011 Can London really build the kind of entrepreneurial hub which could challenge Californias tech dominance? The moulding of an East London cluster: Regeneration and foreign investment in Tech City September 5, 2011 There are two main objectives of Tech City: the promotion of London as a hub for the digital economy a sector the government sees as vital for future growth and the regeneration of a depressed area. Riots overshadow loss of high tech Olympic legacy September 2, 2011 The recent riots have diverted attention from the decision by the Government and the Mayors Office to reject a 1bn bid by the Wellcome Trust to transform the Olympic Park into a science and technology hub. What London needs to build its own Facebook or Google September 1, 2011 London is a hub of tech talent, but it needs a better funding infrastructure to create international superstars

Infographic: Mobile Gaming by the Numbers July 27, 2011 In the past video games came on cartridges, you played them on a big fat tube television in your parents basement and you told your friends about the level you reached at school the next day. We have also created subject specific Newspapers on Mobile Apps, Gaming, Startups, Cloud Computing, & London Silicon Roundabout

JOBS iOS Engineer @ Hailo (Full-Time) Our driver app is rapidly gaining popularity among Londons black cab drivers (with take-up increasing at an eye-watering rate). Now we are on the cusp of launching our consumer app into the wild this is your chance to join a company on the verge of making it big. Front End Web Developer @ Hailo (Full-Time) Our driver app is rapidly gaining popularity among Londons black cab drivers (with take-up increasing at an eye-watering rate). Now we are on the cusp of launching our consumer app into the wild this is your chance to join a company on the verge of making it big. Insight & Analytics Manager @ Mendeley Ltd. (Full-Time) Insight, analytics, inference, business intelligence, strategy, optimisation, KPIs, dashboards, advanced excel skills, online marketing and CRM Java Developer @ Sazneo (Full-Time) Sazneo is a web application with a rich user interface supported on all the major desktop browsers and mobile platforms, including Blackberry, iOS and Android. The core of the system is built in Java on a LAMP stack and hosted with Amazon Web Services. If you have a job you would like to promote post it at TechStartupJobs

READING &VIEWING Customer Value and Your Lean Start-Up Techmeetups Will Governments Ever Get Startups? Colin Hayhurst What Makes an Entrepreneur? LinkedIn Data Offers a Clue PCWorld Discover The Patterns Of Successful Internet Startups In The Startup Genome Report Startup Genome The six types of startup And what protects Silicon Valley Memeburn Infographic: The (Hard Knock) Life of a Facebook Photo TechCrunch Blottr, a people powered news service Startup by one of our members, Adam Baker have been voted as one of the top 100 startups by Smarta. Votes are now underway to decide how far up the 100 list they finish. Please visit Blottr's site and if you like what they do please vote for them by clicking HERE More Startup info at TechStartHub

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Have a great weekend! Rgds, Shawn London Silicon Roundabout