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London Celebrates The British Gaming Industry

Original post by Luke Karmali via IGN Walking into London’s City Hall on a cold and blustery winter’s morning, there’s a sense of excitement in the air. Even the normally zombified security guards seem perkier than usual, as though they’re aware that something pretty momentous is going on. As I descend down the spiralling ramp into […]

Samwers’ Online Shopping Mall Lazada Gets $40M From Shareholder Kinnevik To Push The Amazon Model In Asia

Original post by INGRID LUNDEN via TC Amazon’s global march has yet to take it into emerging markets like Vietnam and Malaysia, so the Samwer brothers have smelled an opportunity to build out their own version in the absence of Amazon itself. Lazada, an Asia-focused “online shopping mall” that has come out of the bothers’ German incubator Rocket Internet, is […]

Connecting, educating and inspiring Miami’s Innovators

Original post by Benoit Wirz via Knight Blog Tomorrow night at the Lightbox in Wynwood, 60+ Miami entrepreneurs will be pitching their startups to a panel of Silicon Valley investors capable of helping kickstart their ideas. These companies have been part of the NewMe Pop-Up accelerator, which has provided local Miami startups with advice and coaching over the […]

Hipster power: Shoreditch tech sector to overtake City ‘over next five years’

Original post by Jonathan Prynn via Standard The vibrant technology, creative and media sectors of the East End will oust the City as the engine of London’s economic growth over the next five years, a new report predicts today. The £34 billion creative industries centred on areas such as Shoreditch, Hoxton and Bethnal Green are growing […]

Startup Advice: Five principles of the lean approach

Oriinal post by Philip Connolly via BusinessPost When startups talk about how they have set up, many mention the lean method. The phrase was coined by author and entrepreneur Eric Ries to describe a fresh approach to product and service design. Several prominent tech companies have begun to publicly employ the lean startup philosophy, including DropBox, and lean […]