For as long as we have been working in this sector, there have always been non-tech founders. People who have an idea, who can pitch, can attract investment and who can sell something that they might not be able to build. Despite my “technology” background, I put myself firmly into that category. While I can […]
Early morning coding session with the Google Developer Group, sponsored by Teamwork and Raise. Today it’s a developer into to the Go programming language. Raise has its origins in the Digital Circle and we believe strongly that we can’t have a thriving startup community without a thriving developer community. We have a live Zoom room […]
You Say COGS … .. I say Cost of Service, Cost of Revenue, Cost of Product I going to have fun and really mess with you on this. But sit yourself down with some cocoa, pull up a blanket and let me tell you a story of the olden days. Back when almost all business […]
We’re going to be very specific. We have loads of events coming up. We have loads of events planned but not public yet. But we also have a specific audience. Our events are not open to everyone. They’re not open to the rank and file, they’re not open to government employees, they not really open […]
Starting in June 2019, RAISE will be picking up the torch for helping deliver Northern Ireland from the Digital Skills Shortage which was amply illustrated at the NI Digital Skills Summit in April 2019. This has been part of our strategy as we are the spiritual successor to Start VI (the first commercial accelerator) and […]
Delighted to attend the Digital Skills Summit (hosted by the CBI at the fabulous Allstate NI offices beside Central Station). There were a lot of new faces and a lot of old faces (mine included) present. We have known for more than a decade that Northern Ireland has been teetering on the precipice of a […]
The most recent FaceBook outage is almost over but it left many of the millions of FaceBook users high and dry from their news feed, their Instagram posts and even their WhatsApp messages, not to mention the thousands of web sites which use FaceBook authentication services. It’s affected a reported 2.3 billion users. A Facebook […]
