** if you can’t see the links in this email, view it online here: http://www.meetup.com/london-silicon-roundabout/messages/boards/forum/1448438 **

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, you’re 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 that’s 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 we’ve still got a couple of presenter slots; although you’ll have to be quick to get them.

Get in touch with anton[at]techmeetups[dot]com if you’d like to get involved in either event.

Have a nice weekend,

Olga olga[at]techmeetups[dot]com

London Silicon Roundabout Group @techmeetupsLSR

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 

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 it’s 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.

London’s Silicon Roundabout home to new Google Campus.

A week ago today, George Osborne, the UK’s Chancellor, officially opened the Google Campus in the heart of London’s 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)

We’re looking for a 7th member to our team. Someone who works well in a small group and likes to make a difference. We don’t 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

Steve Blank Hands A New
Owner’s 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 

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