Opinion

So it’s been a week of good news for Cyan Forensics, Edinburgh and Scotland, and I thought I would share some of the highlights.

In my last post I wrote about how Start Global prepared us for TechCrunch Disrupt in London, which was the starting point of our fundraising campaign. Not long after we got back from that, we [...]

I recently blogged about the investment we raised in Cyan Forensics. Obviously I’d like to think this was mostly the result of my personal skill and charisma, but in fact there were a [...]

In many ways the investment process is like a sales process. Something I have struggled with is where competitions, pitch events and showcases fit into the process.  Some of them require a [...]

The last blog I wrote about Brexit, and it’s potential impact on Scottish startups was fairly upbeat, and while it clearly reflected my own views it was inevitably shaped by the mood of [...]

Brexit is bad news for Scottish startups – but I hope and believe it is the sort of bad news that will make things just a little bit harder rather than the sort of bad news that should have [...]

Some of you may remember I introduced my son on this blog last year. He was born 7 weeks early back in May 2014, and spent his first  23 days in the Simpsons Special Care unit. They helped him to [...]

After the recent referendum, with a general election looming and a Scottish election next year, I’ve been pondering on the role of companies in the political process.   This has led me to [...]

In the first post in this series I looked at the extra barriers that face startups in selling a new product or service: Inertia, Limited Resources, Risk and Size.  My previous post looked at the [...]

The other day, I was chatting to a marketing expert who said “basically you can split marketing into branding and lead development and nurturing”.  I my world these both fall under [...]