Nova Scotia saw wave after wave of Scots braving the hazardous Atlantic crossing to a new life. Honey finds it an odd feeling to see notices in Gaelic 3,000 miles away from home. History begins in Pictou in 1773. A ride on the Trans-Canadian train, and soon there are bears and moose and eagles and lobsters, lobsters everywhere. And fog. But the natives are oh, so friendly...
DATES FOR THE ENTERPRISE NETWORKERS DIARY
Thursday April 25: WeDoSCOTLAND SOCIAL DRINKS
WeDO Scotland social Drinks event at Ricks (55A Frederick Street, Edinburgh) 6pm – 7:30pm. To register for this visit the WeDo Scotland website (www.wedoscotland.com). Discount for Ricks Ambassador card holders.
Thursday May 2 ASK THE EXPERT BREAKFAST
8.30am to 10:00am. WeDoScotland Ask The Expert Panel Breakfast on ‘Attracting The Best Talent’ at Tigerlily, 125 George Street Edinburgh. Details on WeDoScotland website.
Thursday May 2 LUNCH WITH MANDY
Power Lunch Club event: speaker: Mandy Haeburn-Little ex PR Edinburgh trams, now Executive Director for the Scottish Business Crime Centre (now there’s a career jump). 12-2pm. HSBC Premier Banking. Hobart House, 80 Hanover Street, Edinburgh. Power Lunch Club membership application and details on website (www.powerlunchclub.co.uk).
Thursday May 9 MEDIA BREAKFAST ON BLOGGING
WeDoScotland New media breakfast 8am – 9:30am at Tigerlily. Topic: Blogging. Speaker: Gordon White of fatBuzz (no relation to Scot-Buzz). More info available on the WeDoScotland members’ area soon.
Thursday May 9 EIE13 ANNUAL SHOWCASE
Engage, Invest, Exploit annual showcase of top deal flows organised by Informatics Ventures. All day conference Assembly Rooms Edinburgh. According to a press release, the day before, “ Invest, Exploit ’13 and Pitching for Management have partnered to bring a special session of Pitching for Management to Scotland to accompany the following day’s annual showcase of high-quality deal flow spinning out of Scotland’s world leading Informatics and Computer Science departments, and start-up companies in our wider entrepreneurial ecosystem.” Should you require a decoding of this gobbledygook, contact Modwenna Rees-Mogg (email: [email protected]
Thursday May 23 WeDoScotland CONFERENCE
WeDoScotland annual conference Dynamic Earth, Edinburgh. Speakers include Bill Jamieson of Scot-Buzz, David Sole of the School for CEOs in London & Gavin Oattes of Tree of Knowledge, winner of our 2012 Young Entrepreneur of The Year. Visit WeDoScotland website for more info and to book. Tickets are shifting fast.
Thursday June 6 POWER LUNCH CLUB WITH JOHN SWINNEY
12-2pm at HSBC Hanover Street. Speaker John Swinney MSP, Cabinet Secretary for Finance, Employment and Sustainable Growth. For details and Power Lunch Club membership form go to website.
UK business start-ups so far this year:
380420
Scottish business start-ups so far this year:
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No figures available!
The UK StartUp Tracker is an authoritative statistic showing how many businesses are being set up each day in the UK, offering regular and accessible insight into the growing self-starter trend for the first time.
Emma Jones, business expert and StartUp Britain co-founder said: “We’re seeing record numbers of people setting up a business. Our StartUp Tracker will offer a daily confidence boost to anyone thinking about starting up.”
The figure is regularly updated on the StartUp Britain website. But there is no equivalent website in Scotland. And neither the Scottish government nor the enterprise agencies seem much minded to create one.
Shame on them.
While Scotland is enjoying an upsurge in new business formation, we cannot afford to be complacent.
The number of private business per 10,000 adults in Scotland is just 735, compared with 1,231 in London, 1,098 in the rest of the south-east, 1,096 in the south west and 1,080 in the east of England. The Scottish figure is lower than in Northern Ireland and Wales and every other region of the UK except for the north-east.
Fergus Ewing: action this day!
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