StartupCafe

This week’s willing victim is the lovely Mr Colin Gilchrist, my favourite local social media evangelist.  He’s the entrepreneur behind Tweetabits, a web-based Twitter search interface which allows you to tag and analyse tweets according to narrow search criteria.  Among other things, he used to own a clothes stall in Camden Market, London and has also worked [...]

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This week’s spotlight is on a wonderful woman with one of the cutest business websites. Christine Gupta is a tech marketing guru, CloudCamp organiser, and excellent person to have in a meeting. She recently cracked me up advising, ‘What you need is a completer/finisher… but I’m expensive.’ Needless to say, we love her.
What’s your Business? The Gupta [...]

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This week’s spotlight is on Jennie Lees, a jack of all trades in the developer and startup world. You may have crossed paths with her at Tech Meetups, Informatics Ventures happenings, Appleton Tower 6th floor parties, or other awesome events in London and San Francisco. She’s also an insightful blogger (trendpreneur) and much loved tweeter [...]

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Our interrogation this week targets Dave Sapien, a friendly gaming developer with a unique and intriguing focus. I don’t have any babies on the way (much to my dad’s disappointment), but Me and the Giants is a lovable Glasgow startup and we are excited to see where these guys wind up! Perhaps we should call [...]

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This week, we wanted to get hold of Aaron Bassett – the web designer that confessed to creating the ingenious and very funny website – BoycottScotland. Aaron is an award winning web developer by day, and a part-time web technology columnist and blogger (plus full-time twitterer) by night! (He’s a really busy guy!) Aaron is [...]

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Our entertainment this week comes from jam boy Fraser Doherty, a humourous and inspiring entrepreneur with jam in Waitrose, ASDA, Tesco, my fridge, and beyond. Thanks to him, I woke up craving rhubarb & ginger this morning and tend to put jam on any snack possible.
We met Fraser back in Feb ‘08 when he joined [...]

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Each week, we’ll be interviewing a member of the Startup community to find out about their deepest, darkest secrets! We’ll be profiling developers, as well as CEOs – so no one is safe! This week, Hamish (see photo) has agreed to be our willing victim.
We met Hamish back in the old iCUE days when he [...]

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