Over the past twelve months I’ve taken a break from the startup ‘networking’ scene. Getting back into the flow, I was invited to an Entrepreneurs First event ‘In Conversation with Reid Hoffman’. You can view a stream of it here. …
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Three posts in two days, what is happening!? This is actually the normal flow of my blog. I’ll remember that I should be writing on here – write a bunch of posts for a little while, then forget. Rinse and …
This morning I stumbled upon a thread that Naval Ravikant retweeted. Below is the final tweet of the thread. It’s a coincidence that I’ve actually been doing a lot of thinking on this very topic lately. I’ve been actively moving from …
I’m travelling for a bit and wanted to make it super easy to post to my blog from my phone, and for that post to be automatically tweeted etc. Sorry for the boring post but I needed to check it …
This weekend Adam Bryant from the New York Times published an interesting article, ‘How to be a CEO’, which I’d highly recommend reading. The general gist of the article is that Bryant wanted to chat with CEOs about stuff other than …
“The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything.” Oscar Wilde There’s a temptation as a young entrepreneur to pretend like you know everything. And that’s not your fault. Remember being in class and feeling like …
A quick one for your Monday morning, before you tackle your weekend backlog of emails! I met with a founder of a successful London based startup at the weekend. Sitting and listening to her story, the problems both she and …
Over the past week I’ve spent a lot of time listening and learning from Sir Richard Branson. As I’m sure you know Richard Branson (@richardbranson) is founder and chairman of The Virgin Group. He’s a world-famous entrepreneur, adventurer, activist, and …
Last week I had the honour of being invited to Forbes’ Under 30 Summit in Boston. Overall, the event ran very smoothly. Something I felt lucky to be part of. The speaker line-up was great, as were the networking opportunities …
Employee ownership is a defining characteristic of startup culture. Founders have embraced share options as a core fundamental to compensate for the high risk nature. Share options help align and retain employees. They also reward value creation and encourage long …
