A wee while back, I wrote that Mark Zuckerburg taking an interest in Scotland’s tech scene might be just the kind of happening that would help to elevate the profile of our startup ecosystem on the world map.  Boom!  At the end of May came the news that a relatively small startup that not too many people had heard about - 3D audio pioneer, Two Big Ears - had been snapped up by US tech giant Facebook for an undisclosed amount...

When I started Blackcircles.com I had to beg, borrow and occasionally steal milk from the next door neighbour. Fast forward 13 years and I'm told that I was 'boot strapped', aye ok I suppose I was boot strapped then...

As we near the end of 2015, the rude health of our tech sector really is reason to be jolly.  It’s been a remarkable year for the digital scene in Scotland, one in which a country much better known for petroleum, golf, whisky and a rain-soaked arts festival in August increasingly attracts the attention of investors and commentators from every corner of the globe.  Only a few weeks’ back, former University of Edinburgh spin-out pureLiFi - led by Bavarian professor Harald Haas - went viral across the world’s media on the back of its patented technology that allows internet use via off-the-shelf LED bulbs.  I’ll try to exhaust the superlatives early on, but it’s nothing short of incredible that if you go back 5 years in time very few people were talking about Scotland’s fledgling tech ecosystem.