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From Engineer to Consultant to CEO By Ian Stevenson  Posted 28th December 2018  In Cyan Forensics, Startup Management From Engineer to Consultant to CEO2018-12-282018-12-28http://www.salientpoint.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/salient-point-logo-200h-lower.pngSalient Pointhttp://www.salientpoint.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/s...

GDPR & Marketing: Consent and Legitimate Interest By Ian Stevenson Posted 8th May 2018 In Bitesize, Marketing GDPR & Marketing: Consent and Legitimate Interest2018-05-082018-05-08http://www.salientpoint.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/salient-point-logo-200h-lower.pngSalient Pointhttp://www.salientpoint.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/salient.....

How do you start your presentations?

Starting a Presentation With EIE 17 drawing close and our preparations to exhibit well under way, I was reminded of something a few people asked me about when I was preparing a 6 minute pitch last year.

TechCrunch – Cyan Forensics and the Scottish Pavilion By Ian Stevenson Posted 8th December 2016 In Cyan Forensics, Events, Investment 0 0 I was delighted when I walked into the Copper Box Arena on Tuesday morning to find the huge “Scottish Pavilion” banner was in a great spot right on the main thoroughfare. The day started fairly slowly, more so than o...

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TechCrunch Disrupt – Day 1 By Ian Stevenson Posted 5th December 2016 In Cyan Forensics, Events 0 0 Here are some quick thoughts from Day 1 of TechCrunch Disrupt in London. Once again I’m stuck by the differences in the scale of investment here. One founder told me, “we closed £400k pre-seed last year, and we’ll be announcing...

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I've helped to organise a Scottish delegation to TechCrunch Disrupt in London next week - we're getting some good PR thanks to the efforts of Cally's team at Mallzee

Five Edinburgh start-ups heading for London showcase Edinburgh’s start-up community will be represented by five entrepreneurs at a technology showcase being held in London next week.

I'm off to TechCrunch Disrupt with 4 other Scottish companies next week...

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An abundance of great news lately:

An Abundance of Great News for Edinburgh and Scotland By Ian Stevenson Posted 23rd November 2016 In Opinion 0 0 So it’s been a week of good news for Cyan Forensics, Edinburgh and Scotland, and I thought I would share some of the highlights. This morning I woke up to the news that Edinburgh has won the Entrepreneurial City of the Year at the Great Briti...

EIE played an important role in closing our first funding - thanks to all at Informatics Ventures for their support!

Funding Cyan Forensics 2: EIE By Ian Stevenson Posted 15th November 2016 In Events, Opinion, Startup Management, Training 0 0 In my last post I wrote about how Start Global prepared us for TechCrunch Disrupt in London, which was the starting point of our fundraising campaign. Not long after we got back from that, we were delight...

Friday Link: How lawyers read licenses:

Friday Link: The MIT License and Reading like a Lawyer By Ian Stevenson Posted 11th November 2016 In Friday Link 0 0 I’ve been looking at a few license agreements recently, and I stumbled upon this article on the MIT license. I thought it was worth sharing, both as an explanation of the MIT license, and perhaps more importantly as a view on how lawyers...

Some notes on our journey to funding Cyan Forensics - how Start Global helped us get out of the starting blocks.

Funding Cyan Forensics 1: Start Global By Ian Stevenson Posted 9th November 2016 In Events, Opinion, Startup Management, Training 0 0 I recently blogged about the investment we raised in Cyan Forensics. Obviously I’d like to think this was mostly the result of my personal skill and charisma, but in fact there were a couple of programs we...

Cyan Forensics – Starting a New Chapter By Ian Stevenson Posted 25th October 2016 In CyberSecurity, News 0 0 About 18 months ago I started working with a team at Edinburgh Napier University on a project in Digital Forensics. Today we have announced that we’ve completed the process of creating spinout company Cyan Forensics, raising £240,...