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Advice, news, opinion and experience. By founders for founders.

Essential Scottish Tech Startup Resources

Being a startup founder isn’t easy and you need all the help you can get thankfully for Scottish tech startups there are lots of excellent…

By Michael Hayes

Glasgow Startup Spotlight: My1Login

At London Web Summit I met up with My1Login, a Glasgow startup who aim to change the way we store and use our online passwords. Having…

By Jamie McHale

YouTube Comes to Glasgow

Glasgow based Moviecom.tv is bringing a bit of Silicon Valley to Glasgow. On Monday 16th April YouTube Developer Advocate Shannon “JJ…

By Michael Hayes

Being Adventurous at the Amazon Hackathon

Last Friday saw the first Amazon UK Hackthon take place in Glasgow University. With a top prize of $1000 of AWS credit on offer over 50 of…

By Michael Hayes

London Web Summit - A roundup

Last week I attended the London Web Summit for RookieOven. I curated the best tweets, quotes and pictures on my Storify, which is embedded…

By Jamie McHale

Time Flies - April RookieOven Meetup Round the Corner

Time really is flying in 2012, almost at April already!! The good news with a new month is that it means another RookieOven meetup. As usual…

By Michael Hayes

Amazon Student Hackathon Glasgow

As you will have seen in the Scottish StartupDigest this morning Startup Weekend is coming to Glasgow at the end of May (if you missed the…

By Michael Hayes

Making a First Impression

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a lazy writer will start by butchering a well-known quote.  As a way of making a first…

By David Wong

The Lean Startup

Last week I wrote a guest post for Mike McGrail over on The Social Penguin Blog about The Lean Startup. I imagine most of the folk reading…

By Michael Hayes

Exhibit at EIE12

I thoroughly enjoyed EIE11 which was yet another one of the quality events put on by Informatics Ventures, in fact one of the first posts I…

By Michael Hayes

WallaBee: The Ultimate Location-Based Item Game

Location based collection game WallaBee is now on the App Store. Built by a varied team from across the UK, including Glasgow based Alan…

By Michael Hayes

Long is Easy, Short is Hard

At the start of the week I attended the Pitch Presentation Workshop with Bill Joos ‘The Pitch Doctor’ organised by Informatics Ventures. It…

By Michael Hayes

What Next For RookieOven?

So what next for RookieOven? Well firstly there is the RookieOven meetup in Glasgow on the 6th February. This will be the first one of 201…

By Michael Hayes

Snap to it! Springboard Application Deadline Approaching

If you’re thinking about applying to UK accelerator Springboard London as the title suggests you better snap to it. The application deadline…

By Michael Hayes

Pugs and Spreadsheets: Edinburgh TechMeetup

Lava Pug in Shark Gear Last night was the first Edinburgh TechMeetup of 2012 and was also the first one organised by Dale Harvey who takes…

By Michael Hayes

Personally Taking Stock

It’s been a busy year for me, as clichéd as it is, there have been plenty of up and downs and as the year is finishing thought it would be a…

By Michael Hayes

Inbound Marketing: A Startup Essential

A few week ago Rand Fishkin of SEOMoz gave a presentation at a Hackers and Founders event in Silicon Valley. The aim of Rands presentation…

By Michael Hayes

5 Christmas Gift Ideas for a Tech Startup Founder

Two weeks today (or as I prefer to put it – in 13 sleeps) it’s Christmas and I’ve yet to start my Christmas shopping and I assume I’m not…

By Michael Hayes

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