Celebrating startups locally; promoting them globally!
Posted in Inspiring/Motivating, Knowledge, Personal Management on Nov 3rd, 2011
Zach Holman, from GitHub, on slide design for people with a non design background. Slides he made to support one of his talks were submitted to Hackers News. To Zach’s surprise, they quickly gained popularity for their design. He then followed up with a short article on his personal blog covering his guidelines when it [...]
Posted in Inspiring/Motivating, Knowledge, Local News on May 20th, 2011
Great news Edinburgh! TED Global is making the EICC its home from now on. Historically held in Oxford, the conference outgrew the university-city’s capacity. For those who don’t know: TED is a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Since then [...]
Posted in Events, Inspiring/Motivating, Opinions on Mar 15th, 2011
@Dreamstake is a network for creative entrepreneurs and last week I attended one of their events: Female Superheroes.When events like this go well, it’s like cocaine for business-minded folk. Suddenly you feel great and want to rush away to execute your ideas! There was a good turn out, lots of energy and inspirational stories. It [...]
Posted in Inspiring/Motivating on Feb 19th, 2011
I rarely repost another blog post from somewhere, but this post too good not to mention it. Somehow, late last night, I was pointed to the first ever blog post of Marc Andreessen – co-founder of Netscape and Ning – entitled: “Why you shouldn’t start a startup“. It listed eight reasons why you would be [...]
Posted in Inspiring/Motivating, Local News on Feb 9th, 2011
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Posted in Inspiring/Motivating, Local News on Aug 4th, 2010
August comes from the latin word Augustus which means great or very important. When used as an adjective it can mean ‘inspiring admiration’. And yet, the month of August has a terrible reputation…business is slow, work piles up on office desks and decisions get postponed as people take vacation. It can also be thought of as [...]
Digital passport startup looking for beta testers: Local startup Miicard is looking for beta testers to try out their app before the main release in a few weeks time.
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