Startup Spotlight: Lucky Frame
Each Friday Startup Spotlight features a Scottish tech startup, giving a brief overview of the company, what they do, where they are and who…
By Michael Hayes
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Informatics Ventures: iVenture Tuesday & CEO Master Class
I cannot praise highly enough the work Informatics Ventures do for Scottish tech startups. The likes of EIE each year and the Bill Joos…
By Michael Hayes
Startup Spotlight: Musemantik
Each Friday Startup Spotlight features a Scottish startup, giving a brief overview of the company, what they do, where they are and who they…
By Michael Hayes
Looking beyond the border
On Tuesday night I was down in Manchester for TechBasin Beers, a monthly informal meetup for Manchester based tech startups, where Doug Ward…
By Michael Hayes
Making mistakes
A couple of months ago I was talking to a tech startup who went to great lengths to tell me how ‘lean’ they were being. The classic terms…
By Michael Hayes
Startup Spotlight: GatherContent
A new regular feature on RookieOven will be Startup Spotlight. Each Friday a Scottish startup will be highlight giving a brief overview of…
By Michael Hayes
5 benefits of basing your startup in Scotland
Being a blog focusing on the Scottish startup community I thought it would be wise to remind ourselves why Scotland is the ideal place to…
By Michael Hayes
A new lick of paint
Welcome to the new look RookieOven. The site has been given a fresh new look thanks to Greg Cooper (aka @Awfy), co-founder of Interstate…
By Michael Hayes
Made in Ayrshire: Poker Hands
Most of the focus on the Scottish tech scene is on the major hubs such as Glasgow, Dundee and Edinburgh however this is remiss as there are…
By Michael Hayes
Overcoming the Fear of Feedback
One of the biggest hurdles you face as a new entrepreneur, building an online product, is the ‘fear’ of feedback. Overcoming that fear can…
By Jamie McHale
What I Want From Turing Festival 2012
As you may have seen in one or two posts on RookieOven the Turing Festival returns to Edinburgh in 2012, in fact it starts today. So I…
By Michael Hayes
Glasgow based entrant to Shell LiveWire
Shell LiveWIRE is one of the UK’s longest running youth enterprise schemes, established in 1982. One of the current schemes is the Shell…
By Michael Hayes
Turing Festival: Essential Events
Just over a week to go until the Turing Festival 2012 so I thought I would round up some more events which I think are essential for…
By Michael Hayes
Turing Festival: Aligning Interests
With the Turing Festival round the corner over the next few weeks I’m going to highlight some of the events being run that I think startups…
By Michael Hayes
Dare ProtoPlay, Scotland's Biggest Video Games Festival
Dare to be Digital is an international student game design competition run by Abertay University; each year 15 teams go to Abertay…
By Michael Hayes
Oxygen Accelerator in Birmingham
Although in Scotland we have the recently started Entrepreneurial Spark and the soon to be fully functional TechCube I think Oxygen…
By Michael Hayes
Host a Guest for the Turing Festival
I’m sure you’ll be aware that the Turing Festival is running from 23rd to the 25th of August this year and the organisers have announced an…
By Michael Hayes
TaxiApp Launches in Aberdeen
There is now a new way of booking a taxi in Aberdeen. TaxiApp has been launched by Aberdeen based company Whaapp. The app is available from…
By Michael Hayes