Celebrating startups locally; promoting them globally!
Posted in Inspiring/Motivating, Knowledge, Personal Management on Nov 3rd, 2011
Zach Holman, from GitHub, on slide design for people with a non design background. Slides he made to support one of his talks were submitted to Hackers News. To Zach’s surprise, they quickly gained popularity for their design. He then followed up with a short article on his personal blog covering his guidelines when it [...]
Posted in Events, Jobs, Local News, Personal Management on Oct 30th, 2011
In London right now? Sitting on your couch reading Startup Cafe whilst yet again trying to water down that ever worse Sunday morning hangover? Thinking this is another week end wasted away, another week is about to start; your shirts are not ironed and the prospects of that corporate job of yours aren’t that bright? [...]
Posted in Knowledge, Personal Management on Aug 24th, 2011
Jacques Mattheij explains the “not so well known” process of due diligence. If you’re running a company and you are doing something that either requires an investment or attracts the attention of competitors or other parties interested in buying a part or all of your stock or your business then sooner or later you’ll run [...]
Posted in Opinions, Personal Management on Feb 23rd, 2011
With an abundance of digital agencies and software development companies dotted about the landscape like currants in a spotted dick (it’s a pudding), what can you do to be awesome? The usual answers are: provide an exceptional service, beat expectations, produce cool, innovative products etc But I was thinking along the lines of something less [...]
Posted in Opinions, Personal Management on Feb 10th, 2011
Apologies up front. This is probably a bit of a rant but I hope there’s a serious point to be gotten at here. Last night, I was at Techmeetup presenting the rough plan for the startupcafe mobile app. I have to say, I got a bit of a curious reaction. Let me give a bit [...]
Posted in Opinions, Personal Management on Feb 2nd, 2010
For 2010, one of my new year’s resolutions is to run a marathon. Since buying my first pair of ‘proper’ running shoes last year, I’ve managed to make it through a 10k (much to my team mates’ surprise) and aiming for a half marathon in April, with a full marathon (in Loch Ness) at the [...]
Posted in Opinions, Personal Management on Sep 29th, 2009
We love technology. We love it so much that we start thinking about our next purchase, looking out for the latest in mobile phone, computing, or music technology, almost immediately after our most recent purchase. Thanks to people like us, a hungry demand for new technology has been accelerating the pace of product development and [...]
Posted in Opinions, Personal Management on Sep 15th, 2009
I briefly touched on attitudes and responses towards change in an earlier post which is the reason for this quick post. I stumbled across a book at a charity shop recently. It’s about four characters: Sniff, Scurry, Hem and Haw. The first two are mice; the last two are littlepeople. The book is about their [...]
"The only reason to have a job as an employee...": My dad is full of good lessons. I'm sure I didn't appreciate it as a kid, but I am starting to pay better attention to our breakfast convers...