startups

  • Making the Pitch

    Making the Pitch

    Excerpt from Chapter 7 of “Pond Business: How to Succeed Across the Atlantic” by Mark Sutherland, available from Dunrobin Publishing on Amazon and Amazon UK and in bookstores in the UK and the US. Let’s be direct (a very un-British thing for me to do). If an American comes to Britain to pitch their…

  • EDIMO Solidifies Business Connections Between Edinburgh and Missouri

    EDIMO Solidifies Business Connections Between Edinburgh and Missouri

    CIC St. Louis, St. Louis’ largest innovation community offering co- working, offices and labs, and StartEDIN, a community inclusive to Edinburgh which is focused on promoting the city’s dynamic tech ecosystem, announced today the creation of EDIMO, an innovative arrangement to reduce barriers for Edinburgh companies to enter the US market via St. Louis,…

  • Putting Edinburgh tech scene on the World map

    Putting Edinburgh tech scene on the World map

    We all take where we live for granted. I recall living 32 miles from London, and really not thinking that much about it. Or visiting Edinburgh, as I did every year for our annual “escape the clutches of the English” holiday, and walking past historic monuments and buildings without even a second glance. Now…

  • US-Based SixThirty Drives Scottish Start-Up MiiCard

    Back in August 2013, St. Louis’ Jim McKelvey flew from the heart of America, across the Pond, and took to the stage at the Edinburgh International Technology Festival to speak about his new financial technology startup venture, SixThirty. The trip was partly to promote his international dragnet for the next great financial technology startup and…