Opinion

So it’s been a week of good news for Cyacomb, Edinburgh and Scotland, and I thought I would share some of the highlights.

In my last post I wrote about how Start Global prepared us for TechCrunch Disrupt in London, which was the starting point of our fundraising campaign. Not long after we got back from that, we [...]

I recently blogged about the investment we raised in Cyacomb. Obviously I’d like to think this was mostly the result of my personal skill and charisma, but in fact there were a couple of [...]

In many ways the investment process is like a sales process. Something I have struggled with is where competitions, pitch events and showcases fit into the process.  Some of them require a [...]

The last blog I wrote about Brexit, and it’s potential impact on Scottish startups was fairly upbeat, and while it clearly reflected my own views it was inevitably shaped by the mood of [...]

Brexit is bad news for Scottish startups – but I hope and believe it is the sort of bad news that will make things just a little bit harder rather than the sort of bad news that should have [...]

Some of you may remember I introduced my son on this blog last year. He was born 7 weeks early back in May 2014, and spent his first  23 days in the Simpsons Special Care unit. They helped him to [...]

After the recent referendum, with a general election looming and a Scottish election next year, I’ve been pondering on the role of companies in the political process.   This has led me to [...]

In the first post in this series I looked at the extra barriers that face startups in selling a new product or service: Inertia, Limited Resources, Risk and Size.  My previous post looked at the [...]

The other day, I was chatting to a marketing expert who said “basically you can split marketing into branding and lead development and nurturing”.  I my world these both fall under [...]