Startup Management

Ever since launching Cyan Forensics, 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]