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Posted in 60 Second Interview, Interview on Jan 17th, 2013
Life as a start up in Edinburgh, quick view from the inside – conversation with Ben Eliott, founder of startup Legalesign.com Q: So, first off, you’ve founded Legalesign and based it here in Edinburgh, I’m interested to know the main reasons for this. A: Well, probably there are three main benefits for a start up [...]
Posted in 60 Second Interview on Jun 12th, 2012
Julius Gunnemann is an aspiring entrepreneur, about to start his 3rd year of university studies in Edinburgh. Having completed the International Baccalaureate in Germany, Julius envisioned a platform of video knowledge focused on helping IB students around the world. Our 60-second interview focuses on what IB Your Tutor aims to achieve and how Julius brought [...]
Posted in 60 Second Interview, Local News on Mar 18th, 2012
The person behind Keepmeout and Quezti, local Edinburgh University student Ali Eslami has recently started a textbook exchange site – Book Adopter. I met up with Ali and asked him about his new web app … So Ali, tell me about your new startup. Our latest project is called BookAdopter, and it’s a website [...]
Posted in 60 Second Interview on Jan 24th, 2012
This week’s 60 second interview comes from Mirren Fischer (Chief Dog-Spoiler @luxuryhound). Mirren is an American architect and entrepreneur living in Edinburgh since 2008. She doesn’t like to acknowledge she’s a techie in public, but she definitely has a geek-streak! What’s your startup? Luxuryhound. We encourage people to spoil their dogs. More specifically, we design [...]
Posted in 60 Second Interview, Events, Local News on Aug 2nd, 2011
With the full schedule for the Turing Festival now published, here’s a taste of what’s lined up for August. Our first stop: Arjan Haring, self-described wannabe breakdancer and science rockstar, and Chief Rebel Officer of Dutch startup Persuasion API. What does Persuasion API do? We have a learning algorithm that optimizes persuasion strategies per individual [...]
Posted in 60 Second Interview, Local News on Jun 21st, 2011
I met Dave Black when I started as a Studio Manager at Leith-based, creative design and marketing agency Digital Face where he was the Creative Director, and a generally entertaining guy. Most days he would bring his Dalmatian, Poppy, into the studio and she would potter about the place endearingly, occasionally letting out a huge [...]
Posted in 60 Second Interview on May 19th, 2011
Our 60 second interviews are designed as a way for people within the Edinburgh community to find out about each other. This week’s interviewee is Bruno Panara from Tigatag. Bruno was a recent graduate from the BSc in Computer Science and AI course from the School of Informatics. With a colleague, Bruno built a located [...]
Posted in 60 Second Interview on May 13th, 2011
Our 60 second interviews are designed as a way for people within the Edinburgh community to find out about each other. This week’s interviewee is Craig McKenna. As an experienced business developer who has in excess of 12 years top level business development behind him, Craig uses this knowledge to help other businesses grow. A highly [...]
Posted in 60 Second Interview, Local News on Apr 15th, 2011
I always describe Natali Chanany as a little woman with a BIG personality, and of those who’ve met her, I think few would disagree! Given that we first met at iCUE, a junior enterprise at the University of Edinburgh, I’m not surprised that her interest in entrepeneurism and passion for startups led her to become [...]
Posted in 60 Second Interview, Events on Feb 28th, 2011
Let’s give a nice warm welcome to the lovely Diana Proca! Some of you may recognise her from Launch48, an entrepreneurial events company that organises weekends which bring together designers, developers and business folk with the aim of launching a business in 48hours! Most of the StartupCafe folk have participated and loved these events, so [...]
#SXSW Day 5 - The Podcast: Hey guys, lots of gossip from yesterday as we've been keeping busy! Thanks so much for all the tweets back to us, it's been really good to h...