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The IBM Offices are situated on London’s Southbank … about 10 mins walk from Waterloo or Embankment station

The offices are sandwiched between the National Theatre and the ITV TV studios.

Nearby you can find a variety of cafe’s and restaurants to hang out and many of the places like the BFI Southbank and the Royal Festival Hall offer free wifi in the public areas.

London Startup Weekend would like to thank everyone at IBM who made this happen.

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You can now carry on the discussion using the LinkedIn Startup Weekend UK group.

Find out more about who will be joining London Startup Weekend

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The London Startup Weekend team has been working hard on the showbag … the show bag is what kids look forward to buying when they go to the ‘Easter Show’, etc … its the bag that everyone gets to go home with. London Startup Weekend starts tomorrow and everyone that comes along will get one of our showbags.

What’s inside the showbag is the biggest question – and you’ll have to wait til Friday to find out.

The nice people at Packt Publishing are offering a 20% discount voucher for online orders of their books which cover nice things like wordpress, virtualbox, drupal.

Our major prize sponsors eOffice are also giving everyone a special 50% discount voucher on business support and shared office services. Wow … and eOffice has has hotdesk and office spaces in London, Bristol, Birmingham, Manchester.

If you need a ticket for London Startup Weekend its time to buy now as we are about to sell out.

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London Startup Weekend is just 2 days away and with a lot of things happening – did you check out the major prize we announced today – so here it is, the official agenda.

If you’re still looking for a ticket .. they are only on sale for another 24 hours

FRIDAY JUNE 4

7pm Doors Open with Drinks & Buffet / Dinner

730pm Kick Off

745 GUEST SPEAKERS Charlie Osmond Fresh Network

815pm Pitches

930 Break (coffee/tea) Voting and Groups talking together

945 Back in and splitting into teams

10pm GROUPS get down to a bit of work

11pm Curfew

SATURDAY JUNE 5

930am Doors Open

930am … and we’re off working

1pm Guest SPEAKERS Ian MALE & PETER SNELL

120pm lunch

6pm Dinner

915pm Teams move out to Royal Festival Hall (good music & free wifi), BFI southbank (drinks & free wifi), the Mulberry Bush (drinks)

SUNDAY JUNE 6

830am Doors Open

900am and we’re working

1pm lunch

5pm stop, packup & cleanup

530pm DINNER

6pm GUEST SPEAKER Alicia Navaroo followed by Team Presentations Awards & Prize Selection

730pm go get some rest

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London Startup Weekend is just days away (June 4-6) and we’ve put together a great list of guest speakers and mentors. Startup Weekend is an intensive weekend event bringing together entrepreneurs, developers, designers, marketers & anyone else.

The challenge in planning and curating Startup Weekend is to maintain the maximum time for everyone to work in their teams. This time, London Startup Weekend has 4 guest speakers and we’ll be looking to evaluate if this is the right mix. As well as guest speakers, we have a team of mentors who will be able to help out and work on just about every project going.

Together here is a team made up of some of the best people with experience in digital marketing, social media, mobile and of course your favourite interest group – startups and entrepreneurs.

Speakers

• Charlie Osmond – CEO FRESH NETWORKS
• Alicia Navarro – CEO SKIMLINKS
• Ian Male – Partner, iGetFitOnline
• Peter Snell – Partner, iGetFitOnline
• Jenny Tydeman – Manager, IBM Global Entrepreneur & Developer Relations

Mentors

• Alex Van Someren – Entrepreneur
• Raam Thkrar – CEO Touchnote
• Farhan Lalji – Entrepreneur, recently of Yahoo
• Franck Nouriget – Partner Startup Weekend EU & US

Do you need a ticket for London Startup Weekend? Last chance now to buy your ticket.

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London Startup Weekend (http://london.startupweekend.org) an intense 54-hour innovation and business-building event, has announced a major prize of shared office space from its sponsor eOffice. London Startup Weekend will take place June 4 – 6 2010 in just a few days at the IBM offices on London’s Southbank.

Startup Weekend is the place to come for anyone with a new idea that they want to see brought to life. Over the weekend teams work together to take the ideas and create real new ventures. One lucky team will win 3 months of shared office space worth over £1500 from eOffice (http://www.eoffice.net). The package includes a business address, mail forwarded weekly in the UK, a telephone number, telephone answering, call forwarding to one UK line and up to 100 hours of hotdesking each month.

As well, 2 Runners Up will walk away with a package of 3 months Virtual Office Premium – worth approx £600 – This includes business address, mail forwarded weekly in the UK, telephone number, call forwarding to one UK line and telephone answering service per month.

Damien Saunders UK Organiser, said “London Startup Weekend is working to find business support options for everyone that attends and the prize packages from eOffice are amazing”.

Startup Weekend is a great experience for everyone that comes along, the best thing about the weekend is what you take away from – this includes practical stuff like building your network or learning more about setting up a business.

You choose to work as a team and at the end on the Sunday night, teams present their business model, working prototype or maybe its a video – each team has a chance to win one of the many prizes.

The event is open to anyone interested in the local entrepreneurial community, and it puts them in a setting where anything is possible. Teams have even started to generate revenue during the 54hr event, and others have gone on to direct angel and VC investment.  None of this takes into account the amazing networking, ongoing professional relationships, and amazing experience that happen at every event.

Tickets are still available at £50.00 & £35 for concessions. Tickets can be brought at http://londonstartupweekendjune2010.eventbrite.com

About London Startup Weekend

London Startup 2010 is the 3^rd event in the UK. In 2009, Enterprise UK recognised Startup Weekend for promoting entrepreneurship. With so much interest in the Startup Weekend, there are plans for more weekend events throughout the rest of the year.

About Startup Weekend

Startup Weekend is a 54 hour startup event that provides the networking, resources, and incentives for individuals and teams to go from idea to launch. Startup Weekend’s motto: Build Community. Start Companies. No Talk. All Action. In conjunction with local facilitators around the world, Startup Weekend is run by three guys out of Seattle, WA. Together, we are our own community of passionate entrepreneurs on a mission to help other entrepreneurs and facilitate innovation. In the past 2 years, 280+ startups have started mostly across the US, 9,000+ entrepreneurs have been inspired.

PRESS & MEDIA CONTACT

Damien Saunders – Organiser

Phone: +447919110638

Email: Damien@startupweekend.org

Requests for interviews and press enquiries to

Web: http://London.startupweekend.org

Email: London@startupweekend.org

Twitter: twitter.com/startuplondon

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