This post is part of our “Crowdsourcing: Wisdom from the Community” feature which contains guest bloggers from the local Edinburgh startup community. This post is from Philip Roberts, developer at Float, an Edinburgh-based cashflow forecasting startup that we wrote about earlier this year.
One of my favourite lecturers from university was Dr Iain Lindsay, who taught 4th year Digital System Design.
Judged against most of the other lecturers, who droned along to a set of dry powerpoint slides, his teaching style must have seemed “eccentric” to most of his students. Instead of a projector he scrawled across the blackboard, full academic gown flowing behind him. Where others would stick to a script defined by their slides, Iain’s discussions would flow, and loop, and shoot off at seemingly irrelevant tangents, which later turned out to be deeply insightful.
even if technical expertise or business acumen are not. Staying focused on a core product can be crucial — and being able to pick up existing tools or technologies can be a great advantage.
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