StartupCafe

Gordon Guthrie (Hypernumbers) made an appearance on StartupCafe recently when he spoke to us about magic!   This week, as our 60 second interviewee, he will speak about himself.  Hypernumbers has a mission – to make web programming easy for non-programmers, by allowing us to use an interface we’re already familiar with… the spreadsheet!  Now let’s meet the [...]

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Our 60 second interview this week is with Sam Collins from Loud Street Ltd. Loud Street’s first product is Bloop, a tool for helping people meet other interesting people at meetings and events. Sam originally graduated in 2009 with a MEng in Civil and Fire Engineering, but quickly discovered that civil engineering wasn’t his calling. [...]

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This week’s 60 second interview is from Phil Leggetter. Phil recently launched Kwwika, which allows you to publish real-time data easily. Kwwika is currently running a competition to win an iPad, using data from the current world cup. Go check it out! Whats your Startup/Business? Kwwika. It’s the real-time web. Delivered. Give us your company [...]

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There’s an exciting new innovation blog in town, and this this week we are delighted to catch up with its founder Jane Adams. Jane is an Edinburgh based writer and coach, having worked as a freelance journalist covering the smart card industry for 15 years. It was wonderful to speak with her and hear about [...]

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This week we were delighted to interview Alex van Someren, a repeatedly successful entrepreneur in IT software and hardware. Maybe you got to meet Alex last month when he spoke in Edinburgh, but if not, you should know he’s a very cool dude. Having founded nCipher and ANT Software, he’s now helping loads of other [...]

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This week we are especially excited to interview Jack Perry, former Chief Exec of Scottish Enterprise 2003-2009. Having brought about many positive changes at SE, he is now running Perry- Net Limited and serves on the board of Robert Wiseman Dairies (check your fridge). Born in the states but settled in the UK, Jack has [...]

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For this week, our latest 60 second interviewee/victim is Joe Halliwell – director and co-founder at Winterwell Associates. Joe has worked in a variety of businesses from blue-chip corporate services to hi-tech start-ups in mobile communications and robotics. He studied Mathematics and Philosophy at Oxford University followed by an MSc and PhD in Artificial Intelligence [...]

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This week, one of our favourite blog followers (and previous guest blogger) Hilary Singer is in the hot seat for our latest 60 second interview. Hilary is originally from Alaska (we normally try and not mention the Sarah Palin jokes …) She moved to Washington, D.C. for an International Relations degree at American University – [...]

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Welcome back to our first 60 second interview for 2010! Our first victim interviewee this year is Andrew Mitchell from Informatics Ventures! As part of the IV team, Andrew helps to deliver a range of support for entrepreneurs around the High-tech space: including the MIT Workshops, the annual Engage Invest Exploit showcase, plus supporting a [...]

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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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