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It’s been a smashing year for events at TechHub. In July we celebrated our 1^st birthday with a big bash – and our Winter Party was even bigger! September saw the launch of the awesome Roundabout Brewery and there’ll be more beery goodness from there  in the New Year.

We welcomed amazing speakers: Nicholas Negroponte, Fred Destin presenting his Startup Lifecycle while serial entrepreneurs Di-Ann Eisnor and Jack D. Hidary shared a cosy ‘fireside chat’ with our own Mike Butcher.

In October we launched TechHub’s Startup Resource Centre a popular series of 1-2-1 sessions providing invaluable help from VCs, lawyers, accountants, PRs… You can get the jump on the rest of the startup crowd by signing up for our new batch of pr/marketing, legal and finance sessions in Jan.

Our sponsors got in on the act too as we were joined in October by Google’s marketing guru Obi Felten, Pearson talked Tablets in August while Bluevia provided tip top advice in their monthly mobile 1:2:1s.

We introduced a host of new & exciting products to a lively & engaged audience at our ever-popular Demo Nights. Register for a chance to showcase your mobile related product in February’s Demo Night mobile edition. And if you’re something of a mobile guru drop us a line here if you fancy facilitating one of our laid back monthly mobile meetups.

If all this wasn’t enough we partnered with Internet Week Europe and hosted a cornucopia of events for others including: Facebook Developer Garage, Heroku, Londroid, Product Tank, Virgin Media and of course our awesome TechHub members!

Email us to find out how to hire TechHub for your event and join TechHub and enjoy 2012’s exclusive Members' Only events.

Auld acquaintances and all that...

We’re now recruiting for a new Events Superstar to take us full steam ahead into 2012 as I head off after 6 excellent months at TechHub. Thanks to everyone who's made it an enjoyable stay!

I’m off to continue growing my own startup, an exec coaching practice, and am focusing on the start up community, so get in touch to find out more.

After the success of TechHub Finance Week in September and our Marketing Day on 5th October we're bringing you a week of legal events designed to help protect your startup (and your customers) and strengthen its commercial potential.

We kick off on Wednesday 26^th Oct, 2pm, with a workshop presented and sponsored by Dorsey & Whitney Solicitors: Privacy & Liability Online, protecting you and your customers. Focusing on new privacy and data protection laws and the implications of user generated content for your startup the session will help identify where you need to comply with the law, how to avoid litigation and where there may also be opportunities for creative minds. More info and booking here

 
Cloud Busting! Keeping it legal in remote environments – Monday 31^st Oct, 2pm. With big guns like Apple setting out their stall it seems that cloud computing is here to stay. If your business or product operates in or makes use of a cloud environment there are a host (no pun intended!) of considerations. Taking a business development perspective John Haggis from Sheridans Solicitors will introduce those considerations and let you know how to avoid potential pitfalls. Info and booking here

On Tuesday 1^st Nov (6.30pm) TechHub sponsors Orrick Solicitors will be hosting Pulling Power – Stock Incentives for Startups & Tech Companies @TechHub. Focusing discussion on current trends in the use of stock incentives by growing companies this event will emphasise practical rather than technical aspects, and brings together a number of experts in the field. Please contact carolinemartin@orrick.com for information and booking. 

 

Rounding off Legal Week on Wednesday 2^nd Nov, 2pm, we have Protecting Ideas & Innovation an Intellectual Property (IP) workshop hosted and sponsored by with Pillsbury Solicitors. Ideas are the bedrock of business. Whatever you are producing if it involves an element of Intellectual Property (IP) you need to protect it first so you can commercialise it later. Split into two sections (on IP and Non-Disclosure Agreements), this workshop aims to help you identify when your product needs to be protected and how. Book here

 

 

 

Hot on the heels of last week's immensely successful "Finance Week" @TechHub, next week sees a day of marketing related events to help you understand and reach your customers and investors...

The day kicks off with a special (and now fully booked!) 'mini PR work shops' with Ubiquity Comms aimed at helping you understand how to generate media coverage, online buzz and awareness of your product or company on a shoestring.

Next up, TechHub presents Theory of Launch - A marketing workshop for tech startups and entrepreneurs with digital agency Gather & Throw.  In this exciting workshop Charlotte Hogg, MD of advertising agency, Gather and Throw, will introduce you to, and help you understand and apply the company’s ‘Theory of Launch’; a set of steps designed to successfully launch and accelerate technology based startups. 

In the evening, we are delighted to welcome back Obi Felten, Director of Consumer Marketing for EMEA, Google to share her considerable experience and insight. Focusing on themes and ideas to help Start-ups and Entrepreneurs get maximum marketing value from limited resources Obi will be doing a 10-15 minute talk before opening the floor to 45-50 mins of questions (which you can submit in advance here.)

And finally, with an abundance of start-ups vying for attention and limited sources of funding available how do you make yourself stand out from the crowd and capture the imagination of those whose opinion (and cash!) really matters? On Thursday 6th Oct the workshop Pitch Perfect will provide you with skills designed to help you promote your product, idea or service to investors and consumers.

Tickets are going fast so click on the links above to book yourself a place!

Money, money, money - it's always the most difficult part of running a startup! How to get it, how to keep more of it and how to make sure you're keeping the right records and doing everything properly.

Next week sees the arrival of TechHub’s first Finance Week, a selection of daytime workshops and 1-2-1 sessions supported and presented by individuals and organisations from the finance sector, and aimed at helping tech startups and entrepreneurs to financial success.

Limited places are available for the all the sessions below, so be quick!


Monday 19^th - Business & Financial Planning workshop with Jim Bailey
How do you work out a company valuation - what your startup is worth? How do you make sure you have a financial plan in place that works for you and your company? Introducing you to some key financial issues, Jim will demonstrate how a sound financial plan can support overall business or strategic objectives. More information and booking here.

Tuesday 20^th - Business banking with Barclays Business
How do you manage your cashflow? What kind of financial compliance issues do you have to think about when you start a company? What do you need from your business banking? As part of Barclays’ commitment to the government’s TechCity initiative, members of Barclays Business team will be here to offer 1-2-1 advice to help you with business banking issues. Book your place here.

Wednesday 21^st - Your Accounts with Kingston Smith
What are the basics for bookkeeping and accountancy when you start a company? Is it better to hire contractors or employees? How can you benefit from R&S tax rebates? The specialist tech team from top 20 accountants, Kingston Smith, will be providing valuable guidance in 1-2-1 sessions for tech entrepreneurs. More information and booking here.

Thursday 22^nd - Crunching your tax! Seminar with Crunch Accounting
What's the most tax-efficient way to pay yourself as a startup founder? What's flat rate tax and can it mean more money in your account at the end of the year? Is there an easy way to manage the books? This whole tax thing hurts my head, how does it work? Founders of accountancy firm Crunch - Darren Fell (MD) and Steve Crouch (awarded Taxation Specialist of the Year 2010 from Sage) - will be providing a presentation that will help any freelancer or small business get to grips with their tax. Book here.

Thursday 22nd - Fred Destin, Atlas Venture on the Startup Lifecycle - taking your company from idea to maturity
We're so excited to have "a god of VC" in the house for this special Techhub Member-only event (use your member code on the registration page).  Fred is visiting from the US, and we're extremely privileged to have some time in his busy schedule. This isn't strictly a finance-focused event, but we've included it here as gaining insight from a VC stalwart on startups is hugely advantageous when you're thinking about raising capital now or in the future. Do not miss this event.