RookieOven is all about Scottish tech startups, we’re a small country bursting with talent and some amazing startups. The blog was formed as there is more to the UK tech scene than a crummy roundabout in London.
In Scotland there are so many people doing excellent work. For example Jim Duffy and the Entrepreneurial Spark incubator in Glasgow and Informatics Ventures working out of the beautiful Informatics Forum in Edinburgh. Then there are the Scot’s such as Finbarr Taylor, Scott Allison and Andrew McCalister taking their talent and startups around the world. RookieOven intends to celebrate all this good work and talent.
It goes without saying startups aren’t easy through RookieOven the aim is to provide advice, knowledge and to have a positive effect on the Scottish startup community.
Michael Hayes
RookieOven has been set up by Michael Hayes, formerly at dizeo.com, the UK’s first pre-moderated safe social network, founded by Christopher McCann where the team also developed Parental Circle an innovative platform for parents to interact online. Michael is passionate about tech startups and plans to launch his own product in the not too distant future.
Apologies if I don’t update the blog enough but if you think thats the case it means I’m doing something right.
Jamie McHale
Founder of ‘location pre-checkin’ application seeu.at, Glasgow based Jamie is one of the founding inductees into the Entrepreneurial Spark programme. Seeu.at aims to make planning informal social gatherings easier. Seeu.at is Jamie’s second startup as he also currently runs a successful web development and consulting company - Telaco.com.
Jamie regularly contributes posts on RookieOven sharing his experiences developing and running both seeu.at and Telaco.
David Wong
David is a former lawyer who is in the process of launching his first startup - Plantedd.
Plantedd is an online marketplace for nurseries to sell plants, bulbs and seeds. Currently in the Entrepreneurial Spark hatchery, David and his team of developers are currently hard at work putting the finishing touches to Plantedd.
For advice on all things horticulture check out the Plantedd Blog, follow the Plantedd Twitter account or like the Facebook page.
