Equity Punk & Crowdfunding
I am now the proud owner of a share in Scotland’s hippest Brewery. BrewDog is a brewery located in the north of Scotland and they recently launched an online “crowdfunding” scheme selling shares to raise £250,000 of equity.
Crowdfunding is not a new concept but one that has flourished under the Internet and in particular, the [...]
My media
I like reading the weekly My Media column in the Guardian and because it’s unlikely that they’ll be asking me any time in the near future I thought I’d do it myself.
Newspapers On a week day I usually read through my office’s copy of the Scotsman or the Herald, depending on who’s got there before me. The [...]
Scottish Labour Party and business
To start with, I like how easy it is seems to find out information on where the Scottish Labour Party stand on business. From the home page of their website, it two simple clicks What We Believe>Economy and you’re there.
Their opening gambit is that they are “working hard to deliver jobs, skills and a sustainable [...]
Politics and business in Scotland
With a UK general election coming up, probably in May 2010, I’ve started thinking about what the political parties currently stand for and because of the industry I’m involved in, wondering where they stand with regards to business and economic development. You’d think that because of the press coverage given to the “credit crunch” over [...]
First post
So finally my site is complete.
I bought a wordpress package from GoDaddy that included domain and hosting. It looks at first glance like a good system if you have no coding experience but I actualy found it quite restrictive and even though I’m using a template and only managed to get the layout looking like [...]