Thanks so much to everyone who came along for our last workshop for this series this evening. Tonight we had Jonny Kaldor, the creator of PugPig presenting about mobile aps, what platforms to choose, how to create a content focussed ap and how to optimise the marketing for it.

This last section of the workshop series addressed the ways that business and revenue models online need to continuously adapt and innovate. In particular start ups will often change their business model and revenue delivery radically to find their optimal customer reach.

For all of you who came along- and any one else who is interested we’re uploading his slides from the evening tomorrow. So check this space if you need a reminder or to see what is going on at our workshops.

Thanks ICT KTN for your support- See you all for the next series!

As part of Hackneyhouse we will be doing a MiniBar x Mother at SXSW in Austin on Saturday 9th from 6pm to 8pm. You can register here.

Its free to attend, as always, there will be free beers and free pitching slots. So if you are in Austin please join us for some good times. Hackneyhouse will show off loads of fun techie stuff going on in Hackney and we’d love you to be a part of it.

The evening will be just like a MiniBar in London with the theme ‘Hackney meets Austin’.

++We are looking for MiniBar alumni and Hackney based start ups who will be attending SXSW and would like a free pitching slot. We will also produce a video of the event’s highlights, which will be distributed afterwards via MiniBar and partners.

All in all its a great promotional opportunity and if you are interested we’d love to hear from you. To get in touch email us at hello@minibarlabs.com.

We will be joined by some excellent Austin based start-ups from Capital Factory and a good crowd of SXSW attendees.

We are looking forward to seeing you there…

Program: TBC

Thanks so much

Your MiniBar Team

Thanks to all those hardy souls who gave us such a warm welcome at Minibar on Friday despite the Arctic temperatures – the rest of you missed a great night!

Lots of people were asking how best to get started using Elance so we thought we’d give you a little helping hand – here’s $50 off your first job posting on us.­ All you have to do is go to:

https://www.elance.com/q/startup-britain

Thanks again and hope to see you again soon at another great Minibar night! There are definitely lots of fantastic things happening in the London tech scene this year and we’re thrilled to be part of the action.

Hayley Conick, Country Manager, Elance UK

@hayleyconick

Time: 12 noon

Date: Wednesday 13th February

Description: The first public presentation by Neil Crockett, the newly appointed Chief Executive of the Connected Digital Economy Catapult (CDEC).Neil will give a short update on CDEC and this will be followed by an extensive Q & A session.

To join in please see here

More info on the programme:

The UK has one of the world’s strongest digital markets. The ICT, software and digital content sectors are together worth £100bn. The UK internet economy is estimated to be larger per head than in any other country. It is expected to grow to 10% of GDP by 2015.

We have world-leading academics and businesses working in media, internet, communications and cyber-security, and a growing open data movement. We are one of the best places in the world to exploit the digital economy.

The Connected Digital Economy Catapult will help businesses and researchers to collaborate and to address some of the large and complex challenges facing the UK. It will provide access to testing facilities and demonstrators, and it will coordinate and link expertise across the country. We expect it to open for business in spring 2013.

The Catapult will encourage new and sustainable ways for digital media and content providers to generate value from their products, help to find ways for whole business sectors to embrace digital services, and help business to take advantage of the opportunities arising from the way information about our environment and physical objects is becoming available in the digital domain.

It will be a single physical centre and will enter into a series of strategic and delivery partnerships with businesses and centres of technology. The Catapult will be led by an inspirational chief executive and will work closely with partners that have resources and capabilities that can be used in its operations, projects and activities.  

We’re still looking for presenters for our next MiniBar on 22nd February so if you’re interested in presenting your start up let us know by emailing us at info@openbusiness.cc

This MiniBar will be sponsored by Oxygen who are announcing a new competition to win a place in their next accelerator programme and Elance who will be telling us how to outsource and manage software development.

Read more on our MiniBar Blog to stay up to date with what’s going to be happening and remember to RSVP if you want to join us on the night.

Meet some of our presenters and hear them talk about what MiniBar has done for them. Thanks to everyone who came along to MiniBar sacrificing a beautiful, sunny Friday evening to learn about tech! And thanks to our two sponsors FireHost and MongoDB. SalesForce was also there to give away a fabulous JawBone JamBoxes

This MiniBar was organized in partnership with Qualcomm to present their VC activities, bring some companies they have invested in to tell us about Qprize.

The QPrize 2012 venture investment competition’s aim is to identify and fund the industry’s most promising, early-stage technology companies across Eastern and Western Europe. The winner in each region will be awarded €100,000 in convertible note financing from Qualcomm as seed funding. This is part of Qualcomm’s wider, international QPrize competition which was launched in China, India, Israel, Korea, Latin America and North America on May 21. The deadline for business plan submissions is August 17, 2012. From the pool of competing entries, Qualcomm Ventures will select up to eight finalists.