Friday, October 9th, 2009
Build a webapp in 48 hours at Launch48 – ya wanna?
I’m going down to Launch48 next week to check it out. It sounds like a really good weekend and I’m going to blindly advise that everyone should come. Launch48 is a little bit more than a hack weekend, and a little bit less than a full Seedcamp week. But it looks like a great in-between and most bestly (yes) – it’s run by startup people so you know it’s not going to suck.
Convinced yet? Take a peek at their ridiculous sponsor list including Google, Sun, PayPal, TechCrunch and a few others – full list of names covering the weekend is here. They have a great panel of speakers and mentors who will help out during the weekend. You can either come down with an idea, or join a group for the weekend and hack together over the weekend. There doesn’t seem to be any restrictions on project type as far as I can tell.
There weekend is split into two parts: guest speakers on Friday night (Launch48 Conference – £50) and then the whole weekend of building a web app/business with mentoring and lots of other developers (Launch48 Weekend – £10). You can get both for £60 but the guys at Launch48 have been very cool and given TechMeetup a promo code for 50% off – oooooh! It’s limited in how many tickets it will work for but I don’t know to how many – so it’s first come first served. Go.
Promo code for 50% off: L48M-0807-TM
Buy tickets here: http://www.amiando.com/Launch48.html
Saturday, September 12th, 2009
Seedcamp week – who’s coming?
While you were eating pizza at Techmeetup Edinburgh on Wednesday, we were pitching to the Seedcamp panel in a very small, intense room in London. It seems they liked us – we got through to Seedcamp Week starting Sep 21st along with nineteen of the top early-stage startups around UK and Europe (see the full list on TechCrunch). It was nice to see the other startups having prototypes up and running, usually on a shoestring. However, Andrey, Gavin and I pitched an idea that hasn’t been developed at all yet – but it is a super exciting idea. Depending on what happens at the next stage, we will maybe do a Techmeetup talk on what it’s like going through Seedcamp week and some of the stuff we learn. It’s going to be intense but we’re all really excited about it.
Anyone want to come down to the TechCrunch party on Thurs Sep 24th and big up the Scottish scene? I’ll be there telling everyone about Techmeetup and getting some good speakers for the near future. It’s a great chance to meet a lot of well-known investors and a some of the young hot UK and European startups – it would be sweet to have a good representation of Scotland down there. I think you should come..