London Silicon Roundabout Weekly Newsletter

ISSUE 26 October 2012 Dear LSR Member, I hope you have all had a splendid week, and that you enjoyed this lovely rain and cold for its entirety. We have a few upcoming events that are not to be missed! Our London Hackathon is right around the corner on 10-11 November, don't miss your change to attend this massive hacking event! With prizes like $500,000 in hosting and over $50k in sponsor prizes, acceptance into AngelHack's Global Hackcelerator Program, airfare/lodging to AngelHack's Silicon Valley Weekend in Jan. 2013, field trips to Facebook, Google, & other startup HQ's, featured placement on CrowdFunding platforms, articles on you and team by top tech blogs, and bragging rights for the next decade, you should get your tickets now before they are gone! On 16 November we will host, "Want to Fast Track Your Startup? Start Building a Community." Here, attendees will learn from the pros how to nurture and build a community from the ground up. Our speakers are the very knowledgeable Richard Millington and our very own Shawn Ghosh. Richard Millington is the founder and managing director of FeverBee Limited, a community consultancy dedicated to improving how organizations develop communities. He is also the founder of The Pillar Summit, the worlds first and most comprehensive course in Professional Community Management. Shawn, as most of you know, if the founder of Techmeetups. Both will share the do's and don'ts of creating a new community to launch your startup up off the ground. We are looking for one more speaker for this event, so if you are a community building guru and would like to get involved, please contact me for an interview. To invest, or not to invest? That is the question. On 28 November we have a finance treat planned for you. In our " Show Me The Money Masterclass," attendees will gain insight into the differing financial opinions of the industry's very successful leaders. Techmeetups are very goal-oriented, and we are quite proud to say that we have reached our goal of having a presence in 20 cities by the end of 2012. I would like to welcome , Moscow, Budapest, and Belgrade to our "cool kids group" of Techmeetups. Joke of the week: "Knock, knock." "Who's there?" Verrryyyy longggg pauseeee..... "Java." That's all till next time....same time, same place! Have a nice weekend, Kaitlin

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London Silicon Roundabout Group @techmeetupsLSR Like us on Facebook for more updates! EVENTS AngelHack Fall 2012 London November 10,2012, 9:00 AM Venue: Bloomberg,50 Finsbury Square, EC2A 1HD, London [ RSVP HERE ] Tech Masterclass: Intro to iOS November 16, 2012, 9:30 AM Venue: Innovation Warehouse [ RSVP HERE ] Tech Masterclass: Rails for Beginners November 16, 2012, 12:00 PM Venue: Google Campus Central Working [ RSVP HERE ] Tech Masterclass: Intro to HTML 5 & CSS3 November 20, 2012, 10:00 AM Venue: Innovation Warehouse [ RSVP HERE ] Show Me the Money November 28,2012, 6:00 PM Venue: Google Campus - Central Working [ RSVP HERE ] TechMeetups London Silicon Roundabout Xmas Party #tmudrinks December 6, 2012, 7:00 PM Venue:Innovation Warehouse [ RSVP HERE ] TechMeetups Guru Program: Business Models, Real World Problems & Solutions January 29, 2013, 6:00 PM

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Venue: Innovation Warehouse [ RSVP HERE ] This session is part of the TechMeetups Guru Program, a practical 3 month educational and mentoring course to kick-start your Startup. You can choose to attend just this session by booking here, or participate in the full course to receive additional support and mentoring for your company from our Gurus find out more here.

29-Oct: Introduction to Startup Accounts, Finances and Reporting 29-Oct: Understanding and Utilising Your Product Lifecycle 29-Oct: 10th Annual Global Reserves Summit 29-Oct: London ElasticSearch User Group October 2012 29-Oct: Future Mortar Systems 29-Oct: SearchLove London 30-Oct: Augmented Planet Event 30-Oct: Internet Librarian International 2012 30-Oct: Interoperable Open Architecture 2012 30-Oct: London Mobile Music Makers Meetup 30-Oct: London MongoDB User Group #8 30-Oct: October ProductTank 30-Oct: Scale with MySQL - United Kingdom 30-Oct: Techniques for Agile Manual Testers 30-Oct: Techniques for Agile Manual Testers Course with Matt Archer 30-Oct: London Calling - Pioneers Festival Comes to London 30-Oct: Getting your message across: Marketing & Sales (Chelmsford)

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31-Oct: Janey Spratt 31-Oct: Croydon Creatives (October '12) 31-Oct: Vimcasts workshop 31-Oct: mySociety October pub-meet 31-Oct: Practical Agile Testing with Janet Gregory // October 31st - November 2nd 01-Nov: In The Brain of Janet Gregory // November 1st 2012 01-Nov: Geek Lates 01-Nov: In The Brain of Janet Gregory 01-Nov: LJC: The Problem With Women: A Technical Approach 01-Nov: OpenStreetMap Pub 01-Nov: Red Hat Developer Day 01-Nov: Startup on a shoestring monthly networking event: "Disruptive... 01-Nov: Getting your message across: Marketing & Sales (Cambridge) 01-Nov: Getting Started with a Social Media Strategy 01-Nov: Creating Video Content on a Budget 01-Nov: Decoded Fashion London 01-Nov: PPH visits The Office Group 02-Nov: Green Breakfast Club - LONDON 02-Nov: iPhone/iPad app development workshop for beginners. Three day... 02-Nov: Hack4Health 02-Nov: London Sustainability Jam 2012

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IN THE NEWS Techmeetups Partners with Angelhack for London 2012 Hackathon! This has been a very eventful week! Techmeetups are happy to announce that we have partnered with Angelhack for their London 2012 Hackathon! The date of the hackathon has now changed from our original date of November 16-18 to November 10-11. Techmeetups presents: Show Me the Money Like the famous words spoken to Tom Cruise in the film Jerry Maguire, Show me the money! is a phrase we are all familiar with. Everyone wants to know how to make a profit, where the money will come from, and how much they can gain. 5 Startup Sanity Checks from the Sharp Side #TMUguru This article is a free resource from the TechMeetups Guru Program where Marc Taverner is participating as our Entrepreneurship Guru to assist founders of startups and business leaders though practical workshops and mentoring. Do you make these big contractual mistakes when employing people? #TMUguru This article is a free resource from the TechMeetups Guru Program where Richard Cummings is participating as our HR Guru to assist founders of startups and business leaders though practical workshops and mentoring. Tech City: facts and figures Tech City is located in and around Shoreditch and Hoxton, east London. Often referred to as Silicon Roundabout, due to the Old Street roundabout that lies at the heart of the area. 7 apps making the most of HTML5 HTML5 is more than a few years old and no longer a curiousity. Web pages that used to simply emulate a piece of paper are now expected to do something snazzy to justify their existence. An Analysis Of Market Demand For Web Programming Languages

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