Nick Smith
A guy with plans

The London Hacker News meetup is back for 2012 and we have some great talks in store for you throughout the year accompanied as always by our mountain of beer and pizza.
Also, we have some speaker slots free over the coming months. So if you would like to show off a project, share some lessons learned or have anything else that the hacker community...

ProductTank goes Lean this month as we talk to the man who literally wrote the book on Lean - <a href="http://twitter.com/ericries">Eric Ries</a>. Lean is a great approach to product management in both startups and corporates and simply focuses the process on customer development - if you haven't heard of it here's...

We've wanted to play there for ages and our time has finally come...and on a Saturday night too. Kentish Fire will play Cargo, that awesome venue under the arch in Old Street.

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We're on at 8pm sharp - then once you're in it's gonna be a bloody good night. There are more...

ProductCamp will be held on Saturday, November 26th, at the Innovation Warehouse in London (Smithfields market, near Farringdon and Barbican stations). It's a free event, made possible by sponsors and volunteers, and will run from the morning through to the early evening, giving ample time to meet, greet, learn and discuss. Keep the evening...

Patrick Vlaskovits (<a href="http://twitter.com/pv">@pv</a>), co-author of The Entrepreneurs' Guide To Customer Development (<a href="http://custdev.com">custdev.com</a>) will be swinging by London for an evening, so you'll get a chance to ask your questions and get in-depth with one of the...

Introducing 'Londata: putting data to work' There's a lot of people doing a lot of great things with data in London and we wanted to have somewhere we could come together, share stories, listen to a great speaker and help grow the ecosystem for the benefit of all of us. Our focus is very much the practical application (and commercial...

As yet another year draws to a close, we bring you the final HNLondon meetup of 2011. We felt it would only be appropriate to end the year on a high and give you the extraordinary headline speaker, Shed Simove, who will entertain and inspire you. As if that was not enough, the evening will also feature our customary mountain of beer and pizza, as...

Global Entrepreneurship Week Party Fabric, 77a Charterhouse Street, London EC1M 3HN 15th November 9pm-2am Enternships.com in association with the National Consortium of University Entrepreneurs invites you to join us in celebrating Global Entrepreneurship Week in style alongside 1000+ entrepreneurs / investors / advisors / press /...

6:30pm - 9pm - Tuesday 15 November 2011 Devnest is the UK's largest independent twitter developer and startup-centric meet-up sponsored by The Guardian Open Platform, Amazon Web Services and Multizone.. If you are interested in the technology behind real time information networks like Twitter or intend to start building applications that use...

UPDATE: Tardy Tickets available! I've managed to get some additional capacity at the venue, and as such, we've decided to CHARGE a fixed fee for these tickets. The reason? To cover the expenses of our kind AV sponsors who will be there to capture ever moment of the event. So get your ticket before they run out and thank you for supporting...

On 8 August 2011, we launched Mint Foundry, our first ever graduate scheme. We set four makers the brief: Make something connected to the Internet that doesn't live on a screen. Sadly, their three month tenure with us is coming to an end. As a final farewell, we are hosting an informal presentation by our four graduates on what they've...

Once again slightly late announcing the October event. We have some great speakers lined up, details to follow shortly. Please come indulge your inner geek and join us for some beers, pizza and great talks. You will no doubt learn one or two things about startups, be inspired and meet some great people.

We are very pleased to announce that renowned international pitching coach Irene Bejenke-Walsh accepted our invitation to speak at the London Business Starters.
Irene Bejenke-Walsh, founder and MD of MessageLab, has been coaching entrepreneurs and management teams for investor presentations and pitches for more than a decade. Her UK clients include...

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Our last gig at Proud went down so well that they've asked us back...and this time we'll be headlining the epic main stage. HOT DIGGIDY DAMN we like the sound of...

For those who haven't attended before, the meetup at UCL lasts till about 8.30pm, then we all move to a nearby pub, Jeremy Bentham,

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I am very excited to announce the next Hacker News London meetup. After months of searching we have finally secured a new, large venue that will be able to accommodate all those who wish to come along, right next to the Old St roundabout.
As well as a presentation and Q&A session with YC partner, Harjeet Taggar we have the following talks lined...

On Wednesday 21 September, we'll be looking at term sheets for early stage investments - and not just any old term sheets, because we'll be explaining the Seed Summit Term Sheet (see:
<a href="http://seedsummit.org/legal-docs/">http://seedsummit.org/legal-docs/</a>) to give our view on what to look out for if...

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At TED 2006, Sir Ken Robinson made the case that people were being “educated out of creativity”. His call to arms quickly became one of the world's most viewed talks and ignited debate worldwide. Working in partnership with Sir Ken Robinson, we are proud to...

Demos and presentations from 6:30 at Skills Matter, 116-120 Goswell Road, London, EC1V 7DP. Beers will be at The Slaughtered Lamb, 34-35 Great Sutton St, London, EC1V 0DX, from 8 o'clock onwards.
The talks are to be confirmed shortly and we promise you will not disappointed.

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Going back to our unconference roots, UCL will host us for a 3-track unconference on a Sunday afternoon from 1:30 to 5pm. We have 3 bright rooms booked, plus the roof garden! I'll be inviting some speakers specifically, but there will be plenty of room for your own talks and ideas, so please share!

ProductTank is all about the money this month as we get a look behind the scenes of the VC perspective on product management.

We've decided to try a new venue, and will be at TechHub on Old Street roundabout. Drinks and networking will start at 18.30, with the speakers starting promptly at 19.00. We'll have a few short talks followed by...