Essential Blogs for a Start-up Education
This post written by me originally appeared on The Social Penguin Blog by Mike McGrail on 31/08/11. Being a startup founder of any kind is a…
By Michael Hayes
The RookieOven blog
Advice, news, opinion and experience. By founders for founders.
5 Useful Web Apps for Productivity
Rich web apps are undoubtedly the future (if you’re in doubt just have a play with Angry Birds in your browser) but what is there that you…
By Michael Hayes
Reminder - Meetup on Monday
Monday the 5th is the first Monday of September therefore it’s meetup time! There has been a lot happening since the last meetup on the 8th…
By Michael Hayes
Skate Where the Puck's Going, Not Where it's Been
Last Friday Eric Schmidt gave a speech at the MacTaggart Lecture at the Edinburgh International Television Festival. In his speech he called…
By Michael Hayes
Get Away From It All: Doing the 'Someday' Tasks
Thanks to the organisational efficiency of one of the UK’s largest broadband providers I was recently left without Internet access for a…
By Jamie McHale
Some Weekend Viewing
As Rebecca Black would say “it’s Friday Friday Friday” so perfect time to get a movie for yourself to watch. With the events of this week I…
By Michael Hayes
Getting Your Startup Blog Up and Running
First post from Jamie McHale (@jamiemchale), a frequent attendee of the monthly meetup. Jamie is Director of Telaco based in Glasgow…
By Jamie McHale
Why Be a Startup Founder?
Juan Manuel Fangio also know as “The Master” is a five time Formula One World Champion. Incredible achievement but he did this whilst racing…
By Michael Hayes
What Would You Like From The Next Meetup?
Although things with Vesume haven’t quite gone to plan I intend fully to continue this blog and to make the monthly meetups even better. My…
By Michael Hayes
What Happened to Vesume…
What Could Have Been With Vesume we were planning to visualise CV’s, now if that sounds familiar that’s because vizualize.me beat us to the…
By Michael Hayes
First Post in a While… My Bad
Apologies for not writing a post in a wee while. Had a crazy busy few weeks but the good news is… I’m away on holiday tomorrow. So being…
By Michael Hayes
My take on a Video Blog
Kev, from Moviecom.tv suggested to me that I do a Video Blog which I thought was quite a good idea so here we go…. Don’t worry your not…
By Michael Hayes
Glad People Care to Debate
A Rallying Call for the Scottish Startup Scene. It kicked off a great bit of debate in the post comments and on Twitter and also not one but…
By Michael Hayes
The Week That Was - 6
This week kicked off with me, Chris and Finbarr going along to #PoolTweetUp2 on Monday. The event was organised by Allan Barr of…
By Michael Hayes
A Rallying Call for Scottish Startups
Scotland has a long tradition of innovation and entrepreneurship, from the Logarithms of John Napier to James Watt’s work on the steam…
By Michael Hayes
The Week That Was - 5
Another busy week for me and the guys. This week we made great strides forward on Vesume (slight name change there). Unfortunately this…
By Michael Hayes
The Week That Was - 4
Well what a busy week. Started with the meetup on Monday which was a great success, lot of cool folk came along so looking forward to the…
By Michael Hayes
How was the Glasgow Meetup - UPDATE
Last night in Glasgow we had a small get together in the Bier Halle on Gordon Street. My thinking was beer and good pizza would be a good…
By Michael Hayes