Fresh Traders & Mindmatters:
A TechHub collaboration


 
Niels Bischoff
 
Florian Siepert

TechHub is looking for an organised, efficient and self-motivated Operations intern in London! 

This is a fantastic opportunity to gain experience in a growing tech startup, get access to some great events, network and meet fantastic people. 

For this internship, you'll be helping to manage a busy co-working environment, and you'll need to be a true "To-Do List" worshipper.

The kind of on-the-ball person who gets their kicks from colour coding their wardrobe. A ridiculously detail-oriented guy or gal; meticulous about the little things.

If that sounds like you, read on.

You'll be assisting the TechHub Operations manager to ensure things run smoothly at TechHub London. Your tasks will include (but not be limited to):

• Assisting with building refurbishment
• Sourcing quotes from product suppliers,  placing orders and ensuring delivery
• Helping to implement, organise and execute operational strategies to help streamline operations
• Operations-related adminisrative tasks

Required:

• Knowledge of Microsoft Office suite (especially Excel)
• Internet research efficiency (basically: be really good at googling, sourcing info and presenting your findings)
• Excellent communication skills
• Adaptable
• Able to multi-task
• Detail-oriented & reliable
• Can-do attitude

Having an interest in start ups & technology is beneficial!

The internship is 28 hours per week and expenses are paid (a daily amount for travel and lunch).

Please email  our wonderful Operations Manager, Carly "The Pedantic One" Newman at carly@techhub.com with the subject "Operations Intern" if you're interested.  Be sure to include a CV, why you'd like to intern at TechHub, and one quirky detail about yourself. Good luck! :) 

 TechHub Tuesday Demo Night is the place to strut your stuff, get feedback, network & get involved with the community!

We’ve got some fantastic start ups showing off their products tonight.
Here’s a little sneak peek!

   Roomify.TV – video meeting rooms in one click

 Roomify.tv allows users to create a professional quality video meeting room in a single click. Sound too good to be true?

 The Roomify team will be be doing a live demo with their CTO (in Poland) by creating a “room” and having a video conference with him.

Platter – the place for food photos

 Platter's the place for food photos. They help home cooks spread great ideas and give celebrity chefs a run for their money.  You simply take a photo of what you've made, give it a title and tag its main ingredients.  Then the dish hits our feeds, where people round the world find culinary inspiration.

 

 GroupZap –  a fresh way to collaborate and participate

 GroupZap is an effective tool for teams working remotely to create and develop ideas together. Using HTML 5, participants can interact remotely, share notes, documents and pictures to visually communicate and collaborate in real time. Educators, facilitators, leaders, in fact anyone wanting to breathe life into dull conference calls or remote working sessions can use GroupZap to bring engagement and participation to the people they are communicating with, simply and easily. 

 
YumGo – helping businesses use Twitter to their advantage

Yumgo wants to help businesses and brands make the most of Twitter. They want to help people get the right message to the right users, at the right time and location.

 People tweet for data they need, and get answers they want. Yumgo helps you to maximise your potential.

 

  ColourDNA - a new social discovery app

 ColourDNA is a social discovery app that makes it easy to discover new things to enjoy in life. Whether it's a book, movie, restaurant or bar, their matching algorithms recommend new things you'll love based on your interests... and your favourite colour!

 

thenoi.se – Instant infographics

 thenoi.se can capture, ingest and store masses of data, from social media networks to websites to internal enterprise systems, and transform that data into useful, instantly accessible information. 

 Built on Rockitt's realtime platform, the infographic output allows users to have a clear overview of how their brand/ campaign/ reputation sits in the marketplace, with the ability to drilldown into single, specific events.

 

Paylinks – the easy way to collect money online

 PayLinks is the new payment solution from GoCardless which makes it incredibly easy to collect money online. It's so simple they’ve created a guide showing you how to start collecting in 60 seconds, with no advanced computer skills required.  PayLinks has incredibly low fees (just 1%), an instant sign-up process, and simple payment-tracking functionality.

 

TechHub London has an opportunity for a bright and enthusiastic individual to join us as an Events Assistant.

Events are at the heart of TechHub’s business, informing and bringing together our members and the wider tech community, and helping to drive one of the UK’s most creative and dynamic industries.

So, we're looking for someone to join our great team in this busy role in Shoreditch, London. Working at TechHub means you'll get to be part of  a fast-growing and very exciting tech community, and be right at the heart of it. You'll be working with a smart, fun, friendly team of 10 awesome people.

Would you like to be part of a tech startup phenomenon? TechHub launched nearly two years ago and in that short time has had a huge amount of media coverage and interest from the tech startup community. We're committed to making a difference to tech startups in London and beyond, and have some very exciting announcements on the horizon about new international locations with the first TechHub Riga in Latvia having opened in February!

The role:

Working with the Events Manager, the role is initially required to look after pre-event admin and marketing (booking bar staff and volunteers, ordering catering, keeping events sites up to date), and working on events themselves (coordinating bar staff and volunteers, setting up venue, greeting and checking in attendees, speakers and sponsors).

While we'll be very happy to have you contribute creative ideas for events, bear in mind that this role is very heavy on the nitty gritty required to make events happen - the admin, bookings, coordinating. A feet-on-the-ground role, rather than a head-in-the-clouds thing.

The role is full time (40 hours per week), and you’ll need to be available a minimum of 2 evenings per week as part of this (usually Tue, plus Wed or Thurs). 

You’ll need to be reliable, flexible and enthusiastic with a willingness to get stuck in.

You have:

• Excellent organisation skills - you write things down and then get them done
• Great proactivity and self-management - you don't need to be micro-managed and will flag it up early if you're having any problems
• An interest in the tech industry is essential - you're excited about what's going on in this community
• Experience of working in events - you know what it takes to get the job done and you thrive in a buzzy, fast-moving environment with lots of people

This is a fantastic opportunity in a thriving industry. You’ll get to mix with loads of interesting entrepreneurs and other industry people as well, and a really fun team.

To apply:

• email your CV to rosa@techhub.com
• put “TechHub Events Assistant” in the subject line
• include a short covering email explaining why you’re interested in  the role
• briefly detail any relevant experience
• explain why you’d be great for TechHub
• let us know how many evenings per week you could typically offer
• include your salary expectations and availability to start

Be professional but with personality - don't write like a corporate drone, let your real self shine through your email.

NO PHONE CALLS - if you call, we'll assume that you're not able to follow direction or didn't bother to read the full advert.

Update: We're interviewing for this role, but are still taking applications until 18th March.

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We're hiring! We're looking for a fantastically talented, friendly, capable Front of House person for TechHub London. The role combines reception, member liaison, office management, facilities management, being the face of the physical TechHub London space, and our online network - getting involved with our social media and comms as well.

This is an incredibly important role for the company - in fact one of our most important roles - and is so much more than just buzzing people in. So if you're looking for something that doesn't need to use your brain, or you can just coast in, move along!

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We're looking for someone to join our great team in this busy role in Shoreditch. Working at TechHub means you'll get to be part of  a fast-growing and very exciting tech community, and be right at the heart of it. You'll be working with a smart, fun, friendly team of 10 awesome people.

Would you like to be part of a tech startup phenomenon? TechHub launched 18 months ago and in that short time has had a huge amount of media coverage and interest from the tech startup community. We're committed to making a difference to tech startups in London and beyond, and have some very exciting announcements on the horizon about new international locations with the first TechHub Riga in Latvia having opened in February! In the next few months we'll be moving (very close by) to a new location - we're growing really fast.

For this role, you'll need to be super flexible, quick on your feet, able to multitask and be ready to get stuck in no matter what the challenge. You need to be bright and super outgoing - a huge smile and friendly chat is what we need to greet everyone who comes through our door.

This is a great opportunity for someone with an excellent eye for detail and a love of interacting with people, ideally with office management experience who wants to take it to the next level and grow with TechHub. If you're successful, speedy advancement is definitely an option - you could end up working on operations for TechHub, moving into events, heading up all marketing and comms, or setting up and managing a TechHub in an international city. There are huge possibilities for the right person! 

This is a great opportunity for someone who loves people and is keen to work in a start-up environment and have the opportunity to rapidly move up within the company. 

Core duties of the roles:

Reception 

• Greet members and guests, assign & monitor guest passes - you're the first port of call for any member queries and external contact
• Manage the physical sign-in process
• Book meeting rooms  and tours
• Answer calls, emails and queries

Office & facilities management

• Open up in the mornings and sometimes close up in the evenings when required
• You know everything that's going on in the space at all times - everyone that walks through the door is your responsibility, unless they're passed to someone else
• Helping the operations manager deal with property maintenance - flagging and passing on any issues instantly, and communicating with members about it when necessary
• Monitoring consumables - from the milk in the kitchen to hand-towels in the bathroom. You'll keep an eagle-eye out to make sure things run smoothly

Social media & comms

• You're the friendly face of TechHub London on the online member network
• You'll manage our twitter account and engage in conversations on our Facebook page
• You'll become part of the tech scene through your presence on industry blogs and forums
• If you can write a kick-ass newsletter and blog posts, even better!

Event assistance (approx 1-2 evenings per month)

• All staff rotate on helping with events
• Help setting up the event space and catering 
• Greet speakers and attendees
• Manage the guest list

Role description

• This role will be full time 8.30am - 5.30pm (we're open 9am-6pm)
• Working on-site at TechHub London in City Rd, London EC1Y 2BJ and in the next few months, at TechHub @ Campus in Bonhill Street, London.

You’re an essential member of the TechHub team and we’ll be relying on you to be a friendly, professional face of the space. You’ll be genuinely valued – we want the benefit of your experience, skills and expertise to help us shape how the space is run, the processes that need to be put in place, and to come up with ideas to make TechHub even better.

You are:

• Punctual, with excellent time-keeping and completely reliable – you’re such an important member of the team as sometimes you may be opening up in the morning or closing up at night and trusted with important responsibilities. We need to know you’ll be there when you say you will and are totally trustworthy! This is very, very important for this role.
• Super organised – great at managing your time and workload to ensure everything gets done and that handovers with other staff are smooth and seamless.
• Process-driven - while you're great at jumping in and doing things last-minute when necessary, you have strong skills in creating processes to ensure that nothing is forgotten and your work flows smoothly.
• Friendly and personable with great communication skills – you love interacting with people and helping make their day the best it can be. Our members are lovely people and we know you’ll enjoy meeting them.
• Excellent at remembering names and faces – you’ll be getting to know the people who visit TechHub and everyone loves to be treated like a valued member, rather than a membership number!
• Comfortable working independently - as you're sat away from the rest of the team, you'll need to really enjoy interacting with members as a big part of your day, but still work as part of the team.
• Great with using computers and the internet - you'll need to quickly get to grips with our systems, so good skills with the ability to learn new software, applications and technology is a must.
• Excellent English language skills - top notch communication ability is a must including correct spelling.
• Happy to muck in – as with any startup, some duties might be unexpected, or there might be times when it’s all hands on deck. We’re looking for people who want to see TechHub succeed and will get the job done.
• Innovative, creative and proactive – you’ll be developing processes and working out the best ways of doing things, including problem solving. If you think something could be improved, we want to hear your thoughts, and we’d love you to anticipate issues before they arise, and take action where it’s needed.
• The kind of person who goes the extra mile – you’re genuinely helpful and committed and these qualities won’t go unnoticed at TechHub, we believe in giving credit where credit’s due.
• Ideally enthusiastic about technology and entrepreneurship – this is what we’re all about and we’d love our staff to understand why tech companies need TechHub and to gain an insight into what it’s like to startup and run a company.

While we're seeking someone who will really love this role, there are great opportunities to move forward with TechHub in time, either into events planning and management or into a more senior management role for one or more TechHub spaces.

As this role is very important to the company, we're looking for someone who want to join the TechHub team and who are interested in full-time, long-term work  (not suitable as a holiday temp job).

Important: To apply, make sure you do the following:

• email your CV to Elizabeth at elizabeth at techhub.com
• put 'I want to work Front of House at TechHub London' in the subject line
• include a covering email telling us why you're interested in the role. We want to know why you're excited by this particular opportunity.
• briefly detail your relevant experience and skills in the email. 
• tell us why we should hire you
• include your hourly rate & salary expectations - bear in mind that we are a startup, so won't be able to offer corporate salaries
• and include your earliest start date 

Be professional but with personality - don't write like a corporate drone, let your real self shine through your email.

NO PHONE CALLS - if you call, we'll assume that you're not able to follow direction or didn't bother to read the full advert.

We're looking for someone to join our great Global team at TechHub. We launched 18 months ago and in that short time have had a huge amount of media coverage and interest from the tech startup community. We're committed to making a difference to tech startups in London and beyond, and have some very exciting announcements on the horizon about new international locations. We just opened in Riga, Latvia and in March we'll be moving (very close by) to a new location - we're growing really fast and we want you to be part of our success.

We are looking for a superstar LAMP (PHP) developer with Drupal/CRM/front end experience. The position will most likely take the form of a freelance contract leading to a permanent place on the team. You'll need to be super flexible, quick on your feet, able to multitask and be ready to get stuck in no matter what the challenge. We are looking for someone who is happy to learn new stuff as necessary and really understands the benefit of taking a can-do attitude to development. This is a great opportunity for someone with an excellent eye for detail.

If you're successful, speedy advancement is definitely an option - as first developer in, you could end up heading a team working on our international infrastructure. There are huge possibilities for the right person! 

This is a great opportunity for someone who has recently graduated or has had a few jobs and is looking for a new challenge. Salary is negotiable

Core duties: 

• Take our almost finished new-website-in-waiting and do whatever is necessary to get it up on the web as soon as humanly possible.
• Plan and implement a program of regular updates to the scope and functionality of our online offering to reflect our rapid international growth
• Design and develop our international community collaboration software & social network
• Manage and streamline our growing CRM database
• Train and support our international operators in use of our online suite and CRM

Role description:

• This role will be full time with moderately flexible hours. If arriving at 10:30 works better for you than 9am, thats fine.
• Working on-site at TechHub London in City Rd, London EC1Y 2BJ.

We want you to be an essential member of the TechHub team and we’ll be relying on you to be innovative, both a team player but able to act autonomously where necessary. You’ll be genuinely valued – we want the benefit of your experience, skills and expertise to help us shape how the our international network is run, the processes that need to be put in place, and to come up with ideas to make TechHub even better. As this role is very important to the company, we're looking for someone who wants to join the team on a permanent, long-term basis (not suitable as a holiday temp job).

Important: To apply, make sure you do the following:

• email your CV to Mike at mm at techhub.com
• put 'I want to work as LAMP developer for TechHub Global' in the subject line
• include a covering email telling us why you're interested in the role. We want to know why you're excited by this particular opportunity.
• briefly detail your relevant experience and skills in the email. 
• tell us why we should hire you
• include your salary expectations - bear in mind that we are a startup, so won't be able to offer blue chip corporate salaries
• and include your earliest start date 

No agencies or spammy types please. We are only looking to hear from individuals who are themselves interested in the position.

If there’s something we really like to shout about it’s the success of TechHub Members.

This week our lovely resident company Betapond received over a million euros in funding.  Betapond joined us a few months ago but they’ve been operating since 2009 from offices in Waterford, Dublin, and California.

Betapond has some bragging rights of its own. They’re Ireland’s only Facebook Preferred Developer and have been able to expand into multiple markets with a small but strong team. 

Abed Hakim is Senior Account Manager and currently based at TechHub London and their CEO is Declan Kennedy. Abed showcased their product a few months ago at TechHub and showed how they create innovative Facebook apps and retail marketing products to help different commercial sectors incentivise consumers while generating social recommendations.

We’re excited about their recent accomplishments and are confident that they have a long way to go. Congrats guys and bon voyage on the journeys to come. 

With another batch of our extremely popular lunchtime mobile meetups taking place in the New Year we’re looking for more talented and engaging individuals from the world of mobile to facilitate this staple of TechHub’s monthly events calendar.

So, if you’ve got something interesting to say about mobile and would like to spend an hour or so leading a conversation with a bunch of the brightest and best developers from our membership and beyond please complete the info form with your details, a short bio and your idea for discussion and we’ll get back to you (put Mobile Meetup Ideas in the subject line).

Other Ideas for Lunchtime Meetups at TechHub…

And if you have an idea for another lunchtime discussion that you’d like to hold at TechHub that you think would fit TechHub’s startup / entrepreneur audience we’d like to hear from you too. Again, complete this form and we’ll get back to you if it fits the bill.

TechHub has always prided itself in helping entrepreneurs and startups grow, through access to an amazing community, collaborative workspace, and gaining access to funding through the many events and one-to-one sessions we hold. 

We soon discovered that by accelerating the growth of our companies we were running out of room for them! We suddenly had a very good problem on our hands. How can we grow alongside our successful companies?

One of the answers we've come up with is Space Membership. Effectively, TechHub Space Membership is the third level of membership which provides our members with a dedicated and flexible space. This allows larger companies to have more control over their office, giving them the opportunity to choose the layout of their space, have their own furniture, or furniture supplied, and access to additional services such as landline phones if needed. All backed up by connection to our 100 mbps fibre line, and flexible rental (notice periods will start at just 3 months depending on how much space you take, so no need to take out a five-year lease somewhere). Space Membership also comes as standard with TechHub London Membership for all your staff using the space, so you can all be part of the TechHub community, access our online network, regular free events, advice sessions and more.

Currently, the space is offered by square foot instead of the per-desk model of our Resident Membership. The space is located only a few floors up from TechHub London's current location, allowing for easy access to both spaces and the ability for members to continue collaborating. It's a lovely space with natural light and high ceilings, and those companies first into the space will have the greatest flexibility to choose their layout.

At TechHub we want to share in the journey of our members and do whatever we can to accommodate  their companies wherever they might go. 

A huge well done to TechHub London team members Mike Marcus and James Knight who worked so hard to make it happen.

Want to know more or arrange a tour? Email our Membership Manager Michelle Nhan: michelle at techhub.com or call her on 020 7490 0764.