Celebrating startups locally; promoting them globally!
Posted in Guest Blogger on Jan 27th, 2012
Whilst I love to hear startup success stories closer to home – I find it equally inspiring and heart-warming to hear stories of entrepreneurs creating enterprises that support families and quite literally change the life of the entrepreneur and the lives of their family for the better. Today I wanted to highlight one success story [...]
Posted in Guest Blogger, Opinions on May 26th, 2011
Today’s contribution has kindly been made by the lovely Dave Black, Design Magician at BlackArts. A short while ago he left a comment on my post Keep It Simple, Stupid and I later asked him if I could include it as a post. He also contributed to StartupCafe here . I’ve chucked in a few images to break [...]
Posted in Events, Guest Blogger on Mar 23rd, 2011
Once upon a time I signed up for Twitter so I could crash the Edinburgh Twestival 2009… and tomorrow 24th March the Edinburgh Twestival is on again! The fun starts 7pm-1am at Hawke & Hunter (near the Omni). It’s a wonderful Twitter + festival party with all sorts of entertainment and cool folks, and many thanks [...]
Posted in Guest Blogger, Local News on Mar 16th, 2011
About the author: Rob Clymo writes on behalf of www.officegenie.co.uk, the UK’s first proper online marketplace for desk space and shared office space. Starting up a new business involves sorting out all manner of priorities, not least of which is finding office space where you can run the operation. Of course, many start-ups don’t require [...]
Posted in Guest Blogger, Local News on Jan 27th, 2011
“Why is Dropbox more popular than other tools with similar functionality?“ This question was recently posed on Quora, and the following answer from Isaac Hall – co-founder of a product competing with DropBox - blew my socks off. It is a great skill to take onboard lessons from competition without the usual bitchiness, bitterness, or jealousy that [...]
Posted in Guest Blogger, Local News on Dec 21st, 2010
As a startup you have a million things to think about, and unless you’re offering bungee jumping or fire eating lessons, insurance is probably not top of the list. As much as we love a living-on-the-edge lifestyle, we thought it might be helpful to get the scoop on insurance and hear what’s relevant – and [...]
Posted in Events, Guest Blogger on Sep 18th, 2010
Our Stanford REE Series continues with ‘Lessons from Failure’ from Heidi Roizen’s keynote speech. By guest blogger Jill Lin. Learning from failure is not an unfamiliar theme in the context of business. Heidi Roizen, who is the founder of Skinny Songs, a former Venture Capitalist and a role model of fearlessness for entrepreneurs, provides an [...]
Posted in Guest Blogger, Opinions on Aug 30th, 2010
Our guest blog post today comes from Rachel Lane – currently a digital planner at Blonde. Rachel and I were talking about the challenges of managing Twitter, Blogging and general social media in a personal and business capacity whilst catching up last week. Comments below please! Perhaps it has been the level of tactical detail [...]
Posted in Guest Blogger on Aug 12th, 2010
This post is part of our “Crowdsourcing: Wisdom from the Community” feature which contains guest bloggers from the local Edinburgh startup community. This post is from Chris Muktar, owner and Director of WikiJob, a wiki-style employment site that allows users to swap insight about careers, interviews and assessment days at major London employers. Although [...]
Posted in Guest Blogger on Aug 4th, 2010
This post is part of our “Crowdsourcing: Wisdom from the Community” feature which contains guest bloggers from the local Edinburgh startup community. This post is from Philip Roberts, developer at Float, an Edinburgh-based cashflow forecasting startup that we wrote about earlier this year. One of my favourite lecturers from university was Dr Iain Lindsay, who [...]
60 second interview: Alex Crovetti (Playfair & Noble): Each week, we’ll be interviewing a member of the Startup community to find out about their deepest, darkest secrets! We’ll be profiling deve...