Celebrating startups locally; promoting them globally!
Posted in Events, Guest Blogger, Local News on Sep 13th, 2009
Can you hear them? Yes, it’s the sound of freshers and the rest of the students coming back from their summer holidays. We thought we would ask Hilary Singer from Launch.ed what their plans are this coming semester … (oh and remember to check out their new website!) LAUNCH.ed/iCUE Event Series This year, LAUNCH.ed is [...]
Posted in Guest Blogger, Opinions on Aug 26th, 2009
By Michael Clouser, Ph.D. Candidate, Entrepreneurship and Innovation Policy, School of Business at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland Edinburgh, Scotland 06 July 2009: In response to Sunday’s article in the Scotsman “100,000 jobs to go across Scotland in downturn” I would like to first alert the readers of Hi-Tech Scotland, and the public at-large, to [...]
Posted in Guest Blogger, Local News, Opinions on Aug 18th, 2009
You may recall an article last month entitled Entrepreneurs: Born, Made, or Destroyed?, where I present the case that we are all born with entrepreneurial spirit and that society gradually beats it out of us. However, unless you looked back weeks later, you would have missed this gem of a comment added by Derek Moeller. [...]
Posted in Guest Blogger, Opinions on Jul 15th, 2009
Our first guest blogger is StartupCafe regular commenter – Mark Sutherland! Mark is a member of Technical Staff at Cadence Design Systems (this apparently means he writes software for electrical engineers) and previously played Bass Guitar in a band called “Hard Spank”… A ritual part of Edinburgh’s monthly Tech Meetup is the introductions, where everyone [...]
60 second interview and @TuringFestival preview: Arjan Haring, co-founder of @PersuasionAPI: 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, se...