Valentin is the founder of Thankbox – a really simple to use online group card and cash collection service. It’s a digital way for lots of lovely people to celebrate one lucky person’s occasion. It’s used for birthdays, weddings, farewells and a lot of other special moments. Valentin moved from…
Be dynamic: don’t sit back and assume your current business situation will last. Get up and seek opportunities, or be ready to grab them when they present themselves. Before you know it, your small start-up could be trading on the other side of the world. Graham McKechnie has over twenty…
Do what you love, not what earns the most money – and keep learning! Craig Douglas is the co-founder of the luxury holiday apartment provider, Reserve Apartments based in Edinburgh, Scotland. He is also the Chairman of the Board at the innovative technology company Tribalogic and holds a similar position…
I recommend that everyone try and stay positive and fully embrace having a positive mental attitude when it comes to professional matters. A dedicated and eager professional, Alastair Majury is one of Scotland’s premiere data scientists and business analysts. His extensive knowledge of the industry, innate problem solving skills…
[quote style=”boxed”]Magic and hard work. I’m not even lying, it takes a great deal of hard work and I make huge sacrifices. I’ve noticed that a lot of my friends don’t call me anymore. My wee brother sees more of them than I do now. It’s not their fault, it’s…
[quote style=”boxed”]I get up early and try stuff. Fail a lot… and keep on trying.[/quote] A child of 1960s Hippy dropouts who’d relocated to the remote Shetland Island of Papa Stour in 1973, Thor Holt thrives on bringing freedom of speech to a much maligned and oppressed section of western…
Born into a family of pro wrestlers, trapeze artists and headline acts at the Moulin rouge, Dr Ben Schögler is not your average academic. This eclectic DNA is reflected in his career to date: a musician who decided to study psychology, and who, after a few appearances on the international…
Stefan was born and privately educated in Scotland. With a very strong interest in computers, he has made websites since he was only 12 years old. Along with computers and the Internet, his interests include running, skiing, physics, graphic design, photography, music and business. Stefan left school with A-levels in…
While on university exchange in Italy, Oxford languages student Christian Arno came up with the idea for a translation agency that purely used the internet to market itself and operated 24/7 with staff based in every time zone. In 2001 the 22 year-old launched Lingo24 from his parent’s spare bedroom in…