Startup Management

Ever since launching Cyacomb, people asked me “so how is it being a CEO?” or “is it very different from what you expected?”, and I’ve found it a very difficult [...]

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 Cyacomb. Obviously I’d like to think this was mostly the result of my personal skill and charisma, but in fact there were a couple of [...]

I wanted to share some experiences I have built up over the last year or so of some London investors – especially since the opportunities and patterns I am seeing there are quite different [...]

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 [...]

Although I have written about Crowdfunding on a number of occasions, the last was in July 2013.  In many of the fundamentals little has changed since then, although there are now a handful of [...]

Scotland’s biggest investor event is EIE, and it’s just around the corner.  It’s very much on my mind just now, as this year I will be giving one of the big “6 minute [...]

I’ve written before about the pain caused by “Uncustomers” – people who will take up a lot of your time but never buy anything. Recently I’ve seen a similar problem [...]

I’ve been to quite a few investment events in Scotland over the last 10 years or so – from the now defunct Connect Investment Conference to the Young Company Finance annual conference and EIE [...]

Founders need to care about where the market will be when they are ready to serve it – to project the intersection between their vision and market trends.  They need to care about where the [...]