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
The RookieOven blog
Advice, news, opinion and experience. By founders for founders.
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