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HSBC Business Growth Grant: You Could be Awarded £50,000

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The HSBC Business Growth Grant competition is offering funding to help grow up to four deserving businesses. 

They'll be offering up to two £50,000 Growing Business Grants to businesses using innovative ideas to grow within the UK. Two more £50,000 Overseas Trade Grants will go to businesses that have the aspiration and motivation to develop new opportunities overseas. 

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Simon Says: The Future for Small Businesses is (potentially) Bright

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Square is a company that caught my eye just over a year ago. If you’re not familiar with it, you should be. It’s an iPhone / iPad app that lets you receive credit card payments. The start-up (if you can call a company which transfers more than $3 million per day a "start-up") has recently received investment from Richard Branson and is "looking into international expansion in 2012", this excites me greatly, here’s why...

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Business of APIs London

APIs mean Business! Learn API strategies from LinkedIn, ESPN, Netflix , Qwerly and others at the Business of APIs conference.

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Date: 25 October 2011
Location: Altitude 360, UK

Startup Weekend Education - London

Startup Weekends are specifically designed for entrepreneurs interested in receiving feedback on an idea, looking for a co-founder, or who want to learn a new skill. We also welcome anyone looking to test the entrepreneurial waters.

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Date: 25 November 2011
Location: Bridge Academy, UK

UX Brighton 2011

This one day event gives wide exposure to some of the most recent captivating and provocative ideas on User Experience from all over the UK and Europe. The speakers combine the well-known, such as Robin Dunbar, Ian Fenn, Cennydd Bowles and Andrea Resmini, whilst also showcasing new UX speakers.

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Date: 4 November 2011
Location: The Corn Exchange, UK

You, inc - Three Tips on How to Market Yourself and Get a Job

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Hunting for a job can feel like a never ending cycle of CVs, applications forms and tears of desperation. Add to the mix, a diet of emergency biscuits and daytime TV and the job search could feel like a unique punishment inflicted on to the innocent.

With such fierce competition, marketing yourself online can help you to cut through the masses and become the victor. But where to start? Handily, we've come up with three easy ways of using social media to get ahead in the job hunting game.

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How to Build a Collaborative Event…

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Building a collaborative event is not for the faint hearted. Many an event producer has run for the hills when faced with a large committee of partners let alone trying to lead a large team of stakeholders.

If, however, you are brave and follow a few guidelines the benefits of collaboration can be mind-blowing and much bigger than you could ever manage on your own.

Here is a guide based on my learnings directing Social Media Week (SMW) the London Games Fringe & Onemedia.  During SMW we had over 53 event partners, 50+ venues, 110 events and 40 experts on the advisory board. All of this was accomplished in under 16 weeks and here is how:

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In The Brain of Allan Kelly: What does it take to be an Agile company?

Everyone wants to be Agile, or so it seems. But what does that mean? In this talk, Allan Kelly will considers what it means to be Agile and what you need to do to be an Agile company, rather than a company which just follows an Agile method.

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Date: 10 August 2011
Location: Skills Matter, UK

PERSONAL BRANDING FROM THE INSIDE OUT

This one-day workshop is designed to help you develop a unique Personal Brand. The work we do will enable you to position yourself so that you raise your profile, enhance your career prospects and have a greater sense of well-being.

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Date: 28 June 2011
Location: Leonard Hotel London, UK

The Inspire Conference

The inspire Conference is fuelling the next wave of change in Technology, Creativity, Entrepreneurship and Society

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Date: 7 June 2011
Location: Shoreditch Town Hall, UK

UX Brighton - Mobile Design Triple Bill

Talks by folks from 3 of Brighton's best mobile design/development companies.

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Date: 11 January 2011
Location: Lighthouse, UK

23 rd SEPT: ‘Saving The Golden Goose: Improving The Live Experience’

In the first of our ’Year Zero’ event series we look to ask how we can put the value back into the general public’s experience of live music.

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Date: 23 September 2010
Location: The Basement, PRS for Music, UK

Social Media Strategy for Business Workshop

This workshop is aimed at small and medium sized businesses looking to utilise Social Media for attracting more customers and increasing sales.

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Date: 18 August 2010
Location: ESCP Business School, UK

Simplicity Day

minimoko, the design and innovation studio that loves simplicity, invites you to celebrate Simplicity Day with us! Simplicity Day is the event to discuss how simplicity affects our daily lives and how we can innovate by simplifying.

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Date: 12 July 2010
Location: THECUBE, UK

BLN Growth Forum

Our speakers have collectively created over $10 billion of value from scratch. Join us at an exclusive, one-day, high-level forum to learn from their mistakes...

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Date: 15 July 2010
Location: The Hauser Forum, UK