Yesterday’s MiniBar was a roaring success even though it was snowing and absolutely freezing so we are very impressed by everyone who came!

Here is one of our sponsors Hayley Conick from ELance with Matthew Stibbe, who was presenting his business, Turbine HQ, which he developed entirely from Elance Freelancers. Cool.

Simon Jenner, who also sponsored the event, came along to announce a new intake for their Oxygen Accelerater Programme. Here you can see him standing with Christian. The Accelerator only accepts 10 companies for each round so if you want to be part of it get in quick!

Here is Christian introducing our presenters for the evening. You can see from left to right, Christopher Lewis who was announcing the launch of ShiftSwap, Lauren Hine who spoke about Incredibli, Hayley from Elance and Simon from the Oxygen Accelerator.

Here is one of my favourite regulars, Chettan Karsan, the founder and CEO of DayViewer. I probably interrupted a really helpful networking conversation to get this this photograph of him but he’s so charming that he’s still smiling.

To more regulars, Peter Zipp, who has been coming to MiniBar for 5 years now and his new MiniBar friend, Jonathan Prove from Ginicam.

We hope that everyone who came along got what they wanted out of the event- even if it was just a few free beers with some friendly fellow geeks. We’re really looking forward to seeing you all next month!

This month MiniBar is back to its good, old format with a mix of interesting small and big start ups and one of our accelerator friends. Elance will be there to tell us how to outsource and manage software development and design work via their platform to save costs and Oxygen accelerator will announce a new competition for participation in their next accelerator program.

RSVP here if you want to join us at Mother in the Biscuit Building.

We have a few empty presentation slots at the moment and if you are interested pls get in touch via info@openbusiness.cc

Program

Oxygen – Simon Jenner
Elance – Hayley Conick

See you there.

At last we have a blog for all our MiniBar members. Come here when you want to find out what has been before, or what is coming up next time, or just find pictures and videos about our monthly event.

MiniBar now has over 6400 members and about 250 of us meet up at Mother on the last Friday of the month to talk about the lastest news, techologies and start-up ideas.

If you want to join us at Mother for our monthly meetup you need to join our group and RSVP here.

Here are a few photos from previous MiniBars at Mother.