London Silicon Roundabout Weekly Newsletter

ISSUE 06 April 2012 Dear LSR Member, Hope youre all looking forward to a nice long weekend! Great turnout and some really interesting projects pitched yesterday at the drinks night. Many thanks to those that presented and to Anton and James for hosting, we look forward to another evening like this next month! For our next two events, were looking to help startups get in front of new customers whether you have a product aimed at enterprises, consumers or startups. Big Business meets Startup and TechStartupWorld Expo are taking place on 26 April and were delighted to have MongoDB as our Platinum Sponsor for both. More details about the events are also on our main website which now has a new look, hope you like it! Big Business meets Startup: http://techmeetups.com/big-business-meets-startup/ TechStartupWorld: http://techmeetups.com/tech-startup-world/ If youd like to present at one of these or talk to us about sponsoring, just get in touch with anton[at]techmeetups[dot]com or myself. A number of you will remember the great presentation from John Agnes at Foodity at our eCommerce summit last month. Theyre one of the runners in the Inno-Tech Competition so if you like what you heard from John, theyd very much appreciate your vote here: http://bit.ly/HqDkN1 Have a good weekend!

Have a nice weekend,

Olga olga[at]techmeetups[dot]com

London Silicon Roundabout Group

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EVENTS

Tech Startup World Expo and 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: [ RSVP HERE ] Digital Creativity Day #tmudigital May 24, 2012, 3:00 PM Venue: [ RSVP HERE ] 10- Apr: Introduction to Startup Valuations 10- Apr: Free talk: In The Brain of Ed Cortis 10- Apr: London Ajax User Group Meetup: AMD in Depth 10- Apr: London Ajax: AMD in Depth 10- Apr: The Righteous Mind 11- Apr: Attention-Seeking Techniques for Startups 11- Apr: 2012: Dateline London 11- Apr: Java, Spring and Scala 11- Apr: In The Brain of Mike Amundsen: Essential Node.js for Web Developers

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11- Apr: Hub Lunch: Make it Co-operative 11- Apr: GLD EnergyBar April: Laurence Kemball-Cook @ Adam Street Club 12- Apr: Demo & Pitch Night (compete for the best pitch title 12-Apr: NOSQL and the effects of Big Data 12- Apr: HCID Open Day 2012 12- Apr: Information Design Conference 2012 12- Apr: Eat & talk business 12- Apr: LifeStyle Cafe Business Network 12- Apr: The Mastermind Agency Dinner for Kick Ass Women Entrepreneurs 13- Apr: London Real-Time 13- Apr: The Inno-Tech Summit 13- Apr: Next Generation Finance Consortium Open Forum 13- Apr: Selling With Social Media 13- Apr: Mike Masnick: The Sky Is Rising!

IN THE NEWS Google Campus opened by Chancellor George Osborne 05 April The UK will become the technology centre of Europe, Chancellor George Osborne has vowed.He was speaking at the opening of Google Campus, a new centre offering desk space and mentoring for technology companies.

Made In London:the capitals boom in entrepreneurship 05 April The word entrepreneur is used too much, warns Preston Benson, the 31-yearold businessman who started earning his own money from the age of six, when he set up a street stall selling lemonade. Hes now commercial director of the real estate company Bursha Holdings, which has a portfolio worth about 60 million.

Super-fast broadband in London could give city a 20 billion boost 04 April A report by Regneris Consulting featuring in a BT press release has provided some interesting statistics on how super-fast broadband roll-outs in London will benefit the capital.

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Google Campus launch party 03 April What do a rocket launch, Bompas and Parrand a visual interactive experience byonedotzero have in common? Well, we brought them all together on Tuesday night for the launch party of Google Campus, a unique co-working space in the heart of East Londons Silicon Roundabout. Mobe hackathon contest spits out Wi-Fi-by-bonk app wonder 03 April Updated The weekends NFC hackathon turned out 17 working applications, 16 of which could just about have been done with barcodes, and one which will see two strangers going into business together. Students win Telefnica start-up funding in first NFC hackathon 02 April A team of students from London Metropolitan University and the London School of Communication Arts won one of the top prizes at the Isobar Create London Hackathon event at the Shoreditch Studios in Tech City this weekend. News: LeWeb conference sets up a summer home in London 02 April The eighth LeWeb Conference held in Paris last December once again brought together over 3,500 business owners, entrepreneurs, investors, bloggers and tech enthusiasts from 76 countries to take part in Europes biggest event dedicated to the web industry. [Info Graphic ] The Road to $5OO Million 30 March Hiring entire teams online has already become a core business strategy for innovative companies, with a 120% increase in new businesses adopting this model in the last year alone; we predict that online employment will experience triple-digit growth in 2012. Elance Surpasses $500 Million of Online Work 30 March As the internet platform used by businesses to gain instant access to 1.4 million independent workers online, were excited to havesurpassed more than $500 million of online work on our platform. Elances growth is accelerating as more

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