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 as a fashion buyer for Burberry! He has recently been invited to blog in The Drum magazine.
What’s your startup/company, and your role? Red Dress (and Tweetabits). My role is Managing Partner, my adopted title: Social Tailor. Everyone in the team was given a job title by someone else in the company; I provide social marketing strategy for our clients and I studied Fashion Design in the 80’s… Continue Reading »
It’s about time we posted another Roundtable discussion! This week we are asking: What wacky marketing campaign has amused or annoyed you lately? There are truckloads to choose from, aren’t there?! So let’s begin…
Between now and Thursday you can learn how to raise some money, run your business better, gain some techie skills, and communicate – all the while enjoying free coffee, wine, crisps, pizza, beer, and then more drinks. Monday and Wednesday evenings are my top choices, but there’s plenty to catch here so hope you don’t have too many hot dates lined up this week.
Halloween is a chance to let your wild side out for a night with no explanation and no apologies needed. Well okay, that may be most weekends at Potterrow, but there’s a very diverse range of self-expressions on the 31st October that does not emerge on an average party or fancy dress occasion. As I see it, there are three defining elements to this fantastic holiday: the candy, the costumes, and of course the pumpkins.
There’s a nice amount of activity this week, and I’m pleased that for once that there doesn’t seem to be any major conflicts here. So knock yourself out, we’ve got fun for everyone in creative industries, mobile, angel finance, and brain/language realms.
This week we caught up with Josh Wilson, an expert in gaming reviews and fine living. Bela and I had the honour of spending four days with Josh in Porto, Portugal for an entrepreneurship conference, and he certainly brightened up our trip. You may catch Josh in his new office at the ETTC or entertaining customers at Last Drop – he’s got a great attitude and we’re excited to watch SquareGo continue to grow.
We’ve been highly amused by the responses to 
Whilst the Financial Times is busy publishing articles explaining how worse the British economy is getting, there’s a guy across the pond who made $2 billion last week. Is it true? Is it legitimate? The answer to these questions is yes. That guy is Jeffrey Bezos. He founded in 1994 a startup known as Amazon. Yes, that’s the Amazon you’re thinking of. 
A prominent business angel from the Silicon Valley will be helping Scottish startups prepare for the angel finance journey. Thanks to Mike Clouser and Informatics Ventures, a 
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