Our guest author this week is Jes Bailey is an expert in crowdfunding. She helps entrepreneurs raise money for their businesses and projects and has an amazing 80% success rate in getting the funding.Crowdfunding is the science and art of getting as many people as possible to fund your project. We’ve all heard of the ... Read more

When should you start thinking about Social media for your business? Right at the outset!Most founders start with an idea which they work on to get it to the point where it is ‘something’.  Getting a startup off the ground can be a huge learning curve. Generally, money is tight, and founders must think carefully ... Read more

The Start Up Series by Company Connecting. Part Four. Mad, bad and dangerous In my last article I wrote about starting with one idea, and ending up moving in a very different direction. I was already working via my other company Vetta Business Services and had begun to pull together my prospective client list along ... Read more

The Start Up Series by Company Connecting. Part Three. The Idea? In my previous article I wrote about having an idea and considering how that idea can become a business.  I had identified my customer group as IT companies and anyone interested in IT. I was all set to find the IT companies and then ... Read more

Life is too Short to Work for Someone Else When I started Company Connecting, I never thought of it as a ‘Start up’. I had several ideas for a business and key for me was to be independent and live up to my new motto ‘Life is too short to work for someone else’. I ... Read more

James Holland talked with Graham Smith of Wiseman Designs on the highs and lows of going it alone with your own small business. Hi Graham, how did you come to start Wiseman designs?The idea came about in 2011. A friend and I had both left University and having had pretty good years out in industry ... Read more

In my last article I wrote about the pains I went through trying to decide what to do, and the relief that came with finally taking the decision to make Company Connecting my priority above all other business and work options. So now all I had to do was figure out how to make Company ... Read more

The Startup experience with Company Connecting. Part Two In my previous article I wrote about my heritage and how the idea for Company Connecting began to germinate. This week I am going to continue on the theme of ideas and how you convert an idea into a business. The first business I set up in 2014 had ... Read more

Main Focus of the BusinessWe are a recent start up and provide Managed Security Services of an outsourced on-site service with a unique, radical approach to cyber security. We use the best in breed, self-remediating security tools coupled with the best in breed human mind-set to proactively visualise security threats. The “normal” mind naturally glosses over the ... Read more

Main Focus of the BusinessDevBar is digital creative marathon, pitching teams of developers, designers, project managers, and anyone else who works for creative industry. My focus is to make DevBar one the biggest events of its type in Scotland. I will provide the venue and the brief but the ultimate goal is to make sure people ... Read more