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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 [...]
Posted in 60 Second Interview on Nov 26th, 2010
This week’s willing victim (I mean entrepreneur!) is final year student Gregor Wilson who is also the CFO and Partner of VAN DER, a small startup that will launch next week! I posted an article about the company a couple of days ago. If you haven’t had enough of a fix of VAN DER news [...]
Posted in 60 Second Interview on Aug 5th, 2010
This week, our 60 second interview is with Jane-Ann Purdy from GeordieMac Electronic Publishing. Jane-Anne started her writing and editing career after finishing her degree in Film and Media studies back in 1989. Since then, she’s gone on to work for national newspapers and magazines before working for a number of corporate clients. Recently, she [...]
Posted in 60 Second Interview on Jul 20th, 2010
In our familiar 60 second interview this week, we’re interviewing Douglas Holmes, co-founder at Mobius Digital. Doug completed a BSc in Computer Science and A.I. at Edinburgh University last year. Since then he’s worked as a market researcher in a local startup before embarking with two other people to build Mobius Digital. Mobius advises businesses [...]
Let's talk about Magic (Guest Post): This post is part of our "Crowdsourcing: Wisdom from the Community" feature which contains guest bloggers from the local Edinburgh Startup C...