The Scottish Business Podcast

Pocket Sized Hands CEO Gary McCarten talks about moving the business away from client facing work and towards developing and selling their own intellectual property. 

GLITCHERS CEO Maxwell Scott-Slade talks about the economic benefits of moving his studio HQ from London to Edinburgh and how tax breaks have helped shape the studio, providing runaway to be innovative, daring and create new jobs. We also go into Max's zombie survival plan and the transition from being a studio with corporate clients to one developing its own IP. 

I'm chatting with Marc Williamson from Tag Games about building a B2B business in a heavily consumer facing industry and how a little studio from Dundee got to work on some of the world's most known IP from Adult Swim and Activision.

Tag Games has been around 15 years now and after making its start in mobile, quickly built a reputation for quality. Marc talks about not being able to shout about their successes, the B2B side of the games industry and what it means for Scotland to be building games for well loved North American IP.

Commercial Director of Rivet Games Colin MacDonald, talks about building a niche in games industry and tackles why the Scottish games industry (despite producing Grand Theft Auto, the Lemmings and being involved with Halo) doesn't get much recognition. We also talk about the need for  better search optimisation on app stores and how we can help Scots become more comfortable with doing sales.  

Brian Baglow, CEO and Founder of Scottish Games Network, talks with Sebastian Mackay about the future of the Scottish games industry and what needs to happen to make it world famous. Scotland is mostly known for RockStar Games (Grand Theft Auto), 4G Games (Minecraft) and Ruffian Games (the Halo franchise) but the industry's economic value and scale is sorely underappreciated. In this in-depth interview Brian talks about how we can lift the games industry to be on par with how Scots (and the government) consider film, television and literature. 

CEO and Founder of Phlo, Nadeem Sarwar, talks about his struggles with managing burn out and work life balance, his advice to CEOs and Founders that are also struggling and says that businesses that have raised capitals aren't successful yet (he gives his thoughts on turning that fundraising into momentum). This is the last episode of The Scottish Business Podcast for 2020. 

This week, I talk with Colin Hewitt, CEO and Founder of Float Cashflow and Forecasting. Colin and I dive deep into his leadership style, how he uses coaching and mentoring and we take a look at his strategies for burn out and morning routine. Colin founded Float and has grown it to a £1 million business and with his sights set on £10 million, he opens up about some of his biggest mistakes and what he'd tell his past self.  

Jane Morrison-Ross, the CEO of ScotlandIS, talks about innovation across big and small businesses due to the pandemic, building a strong and nurturing business community to bolster Scotland's resilience and building the future of Scotland. 

In this special episode, recorded as part of Scottish International Week 2020, I'm joined in conversation by Alison Edgar (world leading sales coach and consultant) and Russell Dalgleish (chairman of the Scottish Business Network). 

In this panel conversation, we talk about how businesses can improve  their sales, what budding and experienced sales people need to get right  to build their pipelines and close more deals and empowering young  people that are at risk of being left behind due to Covid-19.

Valentin Hinov the founder of Thankbox is bootstrapping his start up, betting on his own talent and the  connections he's made to turn Thankbox into something amazing. And he's  more than half way there.