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Come to Edinburgh Don’t get a job. Build a business!

Dr Steve Ewing

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School of Informatics

•Scale: largest informatics research centre in Europe;

•Excellence: best in the UK;– According to the 2 last Research Assessment Exercises

– No.1 in 2010 Guardian survey for teaching

•Disruptive: most startups & spinouts in the UK;– 61 in last 6 years and 262 since 2000

– Heart of the Edinburgh Tech Cluster

• #2 tech cluster in UK

Source: http://www.spinoutsuk.co.uk

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Once upon a time in 2006…

Buccleuch Pc.

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Edinburgh startup ecosystem 2014

Waverley Gate

Quartermile

Silicon Walk

Techcube

Evo House

Appleton TowerDataLab

Codebase

Aniseed

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Student Entrepreneurship Support

Launch.ed

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Network developmenttechmeetup.co.uk

EDI/ABZ/GLA/DUN/INV

Appathons/Hackathons

EducationiVenture Tuesday

CEO Master Classes

MIT EDP & Ignite

Startup Summer School

Investment guidanceEngage Invest Exploit

EIR & mentor panel

Inclusiongirlgeekscotland.co.uk

Residential workshops

Knowledge ExchangedemoFEST

Industrial Innovation events

Vendor ConnectionsBizspark

Smart Camp

Developing the Entrepreneurial Community

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What do all these companies have in

common?

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Empowerment

• Disruptive Companies in this sector were founded by people <25

• Mobile Phone Apps Group - promoting Mobile Phone Apps as a business opportunity and training ground

• Engagement with the major platform vendors

- iPhone, Android, Nokia. Microsoft Mobile

• Similar to the Tech Meet up – connecting community work

• Engagement with local SME’s in this niche

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Most Winners in the Silicon Valley Appathon 2011

• 2 winning teams (25% of prizes)

• Eye Sore and School Hunt

• Local Winners – iPads

• National winners – a week in the US @SSW and the Valley

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& $100,000• US based Non-for-profit, set up by Michael Baum (Splunk)

• Only Tier-1 educational establishments

– Edinburgh, Harvard, MIT, Stanford, TU Berlin, Polytechnique…

• 10 “winners” this year

– $100,000 each team

– Educational/mentoring program

– $100M Venture fund for A-round follow on

• Looking for the next BIG company in technology

• UoE ‘warm-up’: 27 student teams pitching in 60 Second Pitch Offs

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Engage Invest Exploit (EIE)• EIE13: largest investor conference outside London

– Showcase for the best spinout and startup companies from Scotland's world class universities entrepreneurial ecosystem;

– 500+ guests, 60 companies, 140 investors;

– Keynotes at EIE13: Sir Tom Hunter, Sherry Coutu;

– Successfully transferred to London in 2013;

• Tech, Energy/Clean Tech and Life Sciences Streams;

• A program, not just a conference;

– Mentoring, presentation skills training, networking;

• Save the date! - EIE14 Edinburgh - Assembly Rooms, 8 May.

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for entrepreneurs by entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs in Residence

And Business Mentors•Colin Adams – Director of Commercialisation;•Crawford Beveridge – SE & Chair of Autodesk;•Gerry Docherty – New Media Partners & Par Equity;•Derek Gray – Adobe;•Sarah Lee – MD & Founder of Hot Tin Roof; •Ian Ritchie – founded Owl and internet pioneer;•Judy Wilson – MD of Marketry.

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Informatics at Edinburgh…

…building futures.