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Each Friday the RookieOven Startup Spotlight highlights a member of the Scottish tech startup community.

VentureJam is a unique opportunity for 40-50 young people in Scotland.

We have a special shout out to Open Tech Calendar to wish them a Happy 4th Birthday!

Each Friday the RookieOven Startup Spotlight highlights a member of the Scottish tech startup community.

Last week I was down in London for a few days working out of a coworking space called Wimbletech and it really got me thinking of the pro's and con's to being a startup based in Scotland vs being a startup based in London.

Everyone at some point has to travel for work or work while traveling.

Each Friday the RookieOven Startup Spotlight highlights a member of the Scottish tech startup community.

For the past 5 weeks, RookieOven has watched three groups of incredibly talented, bright, and tech savvy individuals come together to create their own start-up business plan through RookieOven Academy.

Our aim with the RookieOven Academy is to develop viable product idea's.

Education is having a hard time keeping up to speed with the fast moving world of tech.

Event wise in the Scottish tech community two events stand out, EIE which was at the start of May and Turing Festival which is on again this year in August.

Mental health is incredibly important yet something many founders neglect.

I think some people have a perception that RookieOven is a bit of a heavy weight.

We all work hard.

RookieOven is actually approaching 5 years old.

A lot of people are shocked to discover I've never been to San Francisco (in fact the last time I was even in America I was on a school trip at 13) but that's about to change.

Tech City, the London-based publicly funded, non-profit team focusing on creating the optimum conditions for digital technology businesses and entrepreneurs to thrive across the UK, has launched the 2016 Tech Nation report.

2015 has been a mega year for the Scottish tech community.

A must attend event on the Scottish tech/startup calendar is the annual EIE (Engage Invest Exploit) event organised by the folks at Informatics Ventures.

RookieOven is actually approaching 5 years old and has came a long way since the first meet up held in the Bier Halle on Gordon Street.

Tingbot is designed to get your Raspberry Pi out of the drawer and back into your life.

Next Wednesday (4th of November) is your chance to meet Emma Swift, Senior Entrepreneur Relations Manager, from Tech City.

This weekend sees the return of Product Forge, a hackathon series organsied by Allan Lloyds.

Hello and welcome back to the RookieOven blog.

2014 had been a big year for me personally (thinking of posting a ‘Year in Review’ type post in the next few weeks) and I know a lot has been happening across the Scottish tech community in 2014.

Scotland’s first digital skills academy has welcomed its initial intake of 15 students, who are due to graduate in January 2016.

Been quiet on here (sorry about that but life and business get in the way) but thought it would be worth while and useful to do a quick rounding up of some great events that are happening over the coming weeks in Scotland.

It's Festival Season over in the Capital with the Turing Festival brings digital technology into the Edinburgh Festival.

I thought it would be useful to do a quick roundup of some of the interesting events taking place across the Scottish tech community in the coming months.

This summer We Are The Future are taking 5 young entrepreneurs to San Francisco from 21st to 27th July.

Recently Kickstarter announced the had facilitated $1 Billion in pledges to projects from startups to charities in over 224 countries around the world.

In 2013 Glasgow beat 29 other UK cities to win the Technology Strategy Board Future City Demonstrator competition.

We’ve had the first snow fall of the winter and it’s just a little over two weeks until Christmas.

So a week ago we had the first RookieOven Galleries event in Glasgow.

Earlier this year I highlighted some top events taking place across Scotland and it seemed to go down pretty well so I figured worth highlighting what Scottish startup and tech events are coming up in the closing weeks of 2013.

When one of his close friends lost her iPhone in a taxi while in Glasgow Raj Sark decided to do something to reduce the risk of losing expensive gadgets.

Flexiant Tony Lucas is founder and SVP of Product at Flexiant and will be taking the stage at Web Summit on day one for a session held on the cloud stage.

This Friday, developers, designers, and entrepreneurs with a passion for technology and the environment will gather for 54 hours in Glasgow for Startup Weekend Glasgow: Sustainability and Clean Tech.

There have been a few notable changes since RookieOven last covered GatherContent, which we described as Basecamp meets Google Docs with structure.

Last week I was invited along to the ScotlandIS ScotSoft 2013 Global Forum.

So far this year Scotland has been home to many brilliant tech events and that trend looks to continue as we close out 2013.

A great resource on the Hacker News community is the monthly ‘Who’s Hiring’ thread where startups can promote openings.

Open Tech Calendar, the Edinburgh based website that lists local technology events, is going to be one year old on 24th July 2013.

Two weeks ago, the great and the good (and the very keen) of the UX community gathered together for the first UX Scotland conference.

The RE.WORK Technology Summit is a one-day event that brings together entrepreneurship, science and technology to re-work the future and tackle some of the world’s greatest challenges.

UX Scotland lands in Edinburgh in two weeks’ time, setting up home at the Dynamic Earth in Edinburgh over the two days from Thursday, 20 June to Friday, 21 June.

This is a guest post from Callum Stuart COO of Mallzee.

RookieOven has been pretty quite of late, apologies for that, but I do hope to explain the reasons behind that in a post later this week but from here forward I hope for RookieOven to return to providing regular commentary, advice and shout outs to the Sc…

In Scotland?

Would the government be better giving money directly to startups and letting them decide what to do with it?