Palantir is supporting us!
Palantir is a Silicon Valley based software company founded in 2004, providing the market-leading analytical platform used at the strategic, operational, and tactical levels within the commercial sector, intelligence, defense, and law enforcement communities.
But they’re more than that.
They’re open source contributors. They do big data at massive scale (you may have heard of Hadoop and Cassandra.) They solve world-changing problems, with real impact. In a recent cover story on Palantir, Businessweek quotes one of their users as saying:
“It’s like plugging into the Matrix,” says a Special Forces member stationed in Afghanistan who requested anonymity out of security concerns. “The first time I saw it, I was like, ‘Holy crap. Holy crap. Holy crap.’ ”
…and, they accomplish all of this while staying true to their engineering culture and startup values: small teams, the best idea always wins, and their engineers have full ownership of what they’re delivering.
You will have the pleasure to meet them at London Startup Weekend. Present at the event will be two engineers from their London office, Adam (also a mentor) and Emanuel. A word from them: “We’re very excited to be attending the event, and encourage you to come talk to us; we’re particularly interested in ideas in the enterprise space!”
Why not try out Palantir yourself? Be the analyst at https://www.optradestop.com/.
Lean Startup Machine!
Next Event In A Few Days For Our Friends At Lean Startup Machine!
Lean Startup Machine is a competitive weekend workshop where you will apply Lean Startup techniques in the real world. Join a team and launch a startup–not by writing code– but by validating and iterating your key hypotheses quickly. Learn to identify the key risks in your business model through hands-on mentorship and our unique framework of tools. And the first 10 London Startup Weekend folks to register get a 10% off! (londonsuwknd)
Fed up of your 9-5 day job?
Then do something about it!!
Ch4 are making a brand new programme which will take a family who are sick of their current jobs/quality of life and are wanting to pack it all in and set up their own business. The idea is that our presenter and team of experts will evaluate their current life – their assets (house, car, savings), their skills, their future dreams – and come up with three different feasible business/life plans to get them started on the path to the future they wish to have. Not only will they be presented with these plans, they will also get the opportunity to really experience what making these life changes would be like.
They are ideally looking for families who would be ready to make these changes in the next few months and wouldn’t be adverse to relocating if it became part of the bigger plan. It’s a perfect opportunity for people who dream of this but until now just haven’t had the headspace or opportunity to go for it!
If this sounds like something you and your family might be interested in then please contact Helen via email (hsoothill@truenorth.tv) with a little bit of info about yourself and they will get in touch!
Calling all sponsors!
As the planning for the event is in full swing, we are calling out for any sponsors that would like to help out. As a non-profit, all the funds received go towards making an awesome event for all participating.
Yes, we like money (who doesn’t!) but we are also on the lookout for organizations that are willing to help fill the welcome swag bag, or gifts in kind. (Drinks for the weekend / Free prize give-aways etc!)
We’ve even raffled away awesome gifts like iPads and mobile phones for our sponsors to charity, so we’re pretty much open to anything!
If you have something to give to the entrepreneur community or know of someone that does, let us know and we can make it Startup Weekend London March 2012 the most awesome to date!
Teams – Feedback on Your Pitches – Check #swlondon – Well Worth It!
Event Knode (Pitch 29, 3h 51m 52s) — event registration system with incorporated face recognition to speed up sign-ins at events
Superb teams and pitches at Startup Weekend London, and super uber support from our Twitter followers!!!
Teams, there are some invaluable feedback on your pitches and ideas from the Twitter followers, search #swlondon on Twitter http://bit.ly/pnyAY2 for the awesomeness!
These feedback and followers may serve as your very good step to morph / pivot your ideas to something bigger, test your market, or potentially find your early adopters!
Don’t forget to follow @startuplondon on Twitter too or Download our iPhone / Android App http://mobileroadie.com/apps/swlondon to keep up to date!
