London Silicon Roundabout Weekly Newsletter

ISSUE 13 April 2012 Dear LSR Member, Dear LSR member, Some great things in the goody bag this week: Cloudbees who supported our last hackathon are offering the new PaaS for Dummies book for free to all our members. Request your copy here. Next Wednesday 18 April, youre all invited to join us at 93 Feet East for drinks to find out more about the new accelerator program launching in London which will give you up to 50,000 and 6 months on the Wayra Academy scheme. On Tuesday 24 April Jeffreys Henry LLP have a free drop-in tax and accounting advice clinic which you can sign up to here. And 2 more events to look forward to this month: Big Business meets Startup on 26 April where you can pitch to IT decision makers at enterprises including Samsung, KPMG, Dow Jones, Bank of America, and WaverleyTBS. Already up in front of the audience we have MongoBD and Badgeville; there are still two spaces for startups to present if you have a solution thats ready to implement in Mobile Apps, Crowdsourcing, Cloud Solutions or Social Media. TechStartupWorld Expo on 26 April is taking place in 6 cities where TechMeetups is active: London, New York, Dallas, Miami, Bangalore and Bangkok. The idea is to generate huge publicity for your startup using our global network and weve still got a couple of presenter slots; although youll have to be quick to get them. Get in touch with anton[at]techmeetups[dot]com if youd like to get involved in either event. Have a nice weekend, Olga olga[at]techmeetups[dot]com London Silicon Roundabout Group

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EVENTS Big Business meets Startup April 26, 2012, 3:00PM Venue: Innovation Warehouse [ RSVP HERE ] Tech Startup World Expo #TMUExpo April 26, 2012, 6:00 PM Venue: Innovation Warehouse [ RSVP HERE ] Masterclass on Effective Marketing and PR #tmudigital May 24,2012, 3:00 PM Venue: TBC [ RSVP HERE ] Digital Creativity Day #tmudigital May 24, 2012, 3:00 PM Venue: TBC [ RSVP HERE ] CloudBase Unconference & Workshops #tmucloud June 29, 2012, 2:00 PM Venue: TBC [ RSVP HERE ] 16-Apr: Digital Media Europe 16-Apr: The Be Smart About Art Academy 16-Apr: Digital Media Europe 2012 16-Apr: Drupal for Government 16-Apr: London Book Fair 2012 16-Apr: London JS: Local Storage and ApplicationCache

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16-Apr: Selenium Conference 16-Apr: Udi Dahan's Advanced Distributed Systems Design with SOA 16-Apr: Introduction to Startup Law 17-Apr: CEO Tales: Peldi, Balsamiq Mock Ups 17-Apr: The Information Summit 17-Apr: LJC: The London Developer Sessions 17-Apr: Building Web Apps with Ruby on Rails 18-Apr: Games for TV 18-Apr: ITTUxB 18-Apr: Predictive Analytics Innovation Summit 18-Apr: UX London 2012 18-Apr: Idea Generation For Social Enterprise 18-Apr: Klaus Hommels speaks at the TELL Series, London 18-Apr: Maybe its time you started your own business? 19-Apr: Devs in the 'ditch present Paul Shannon's Code Smells Clinic 19-Apr: CASA Smart Cities 19-Apr: Content Strategy for the UK Government 19-Apr: Raising money from Business Angels: 'From Idea to Investment' 19-Apr: ICT KTN Online Business Essential Clinics #1: Web Analytics 19-Apr: The UX clinic returns 20-Apr: BACON 20-Apr: Make more of your home work space 24-Apr: Free Finance, Tax and Accounting Advice Clinic at Jeffreys Henry LLP

IN THE NEWS

For London, things are looking up The jobless report released Thursday shows the national economy added 82,300, Ontario 46,000 and London tacked on 1,100 jobs over February, showing signs that what had been a fragile economic recovery is growing stronger. Londons Silicon Roundabout home to new Google Campus.

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A week ago today, George Osborne, the UKs Chancellor, officially opened the Google Campus in the heart of Londons booming start-up community which is centred around the Silicon Roundabout in East London. We have also created subject specific Newspapers on Mobile Apps, Gaming, Startups, Cloud Computing, & London Silicon Roundabout JOBS PHP Developer @ gignite (Full Time) Were looking for a 7th member to our team. Someone who works well in a small group and likes to make a difference. We dont care about qualifications or even past experience so long as you can demonstrate your enthusiasm for coding and/or contributions to any open source projects Senior Web Designer @ jjfoodservice (Full Time) Assuming a senior position within IT Group, you will be fully accountable our website which generating 47 million in revenue a year. To succeed in this role you will be need to be passionate about web development, e-commerce and never want to stop learning. If you have a job you would like to promote post it at TechStartupJobs READING & VIEWING

Where is the entrepreneurial grass greener: 5San Fran or London? Independent Why Designers Should Join Software Startups TC Why Vegas is a True Start-Up City #VegasTech Search Engine Watch Business Audience Marketing Company Bizo Raises $10M TC

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Steve Blank Hands A New Owners Manual to Startup Founders XCONOMY Tech professor seeks win-win with city Dchieftain Low-, high-tech from team Times Union Globe creates unit to finance start-ups Business MANILA

Video game technology used to make replica of Constitution Monument ST AUGUSTINE Bootstrapping For All Phases of Your Business My Office Assist Greenlighted: a Tech Startup that Supports Sustainable Brands SB Welcome to the success factory MT Facebook For iPad Gets Retina-Ready TC Blog: VE Interactive on Tech City Tech City Some Thoughts about Selling at Startups Both Side of The Table More Startup info at TechStartHub OUR PARTNERS EC1 Capital EC1 Capital is a 10m VC fund based in London that invests between 25k-200k in early stage digital startups with solid teams showing tangible progression. KingsleyNapley

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Kingsley Napley LLP is a London based and internationally recognised law firm with a specialist team advising technology companies on a range of legal issues DataArt DataArt is a custom software development firm that builds advanced solutions for the financial services, healthcare, hospitality and other industries. Jeffreys Henry LLP Based in the heart of Silicon Roundabout, Jeffreys Henry specialise in working with entrepreneurial technology and digital companies to startup, develop and grow. For a limited time, Jeffreys Henry is offering free company formation and initial finance/accounting/tax advice to local technology/digital startups. Click here Elance Instant online staffing for your Business Special deal for LSR members: Register today on Elance and receive $100 towards your first online hire to help you launch your business. Click here Radford Radford has provided compensation market intelligence to the technology and life sciences industries. HR Insight HR Insight is a London Silicon Roundabout based Human Resource & Employment law specialists