Today I came across a brilliant resource from Steve Blank for anyone interested in better understanding ‘lean’. It covers resources … More
Category: Start-Ups
Understanding Value Proposition
Last week I posted here about my experience mentoring a start-up team from LSE’s Innovation Accelerator programme. This week I … More
Customer Discovery & Development
Last week I began mentoring a team who have entered the London School of Economics (LSE) Innovation Lean Accelerator Programme. … More
Don’t Think You Have To Conquer The World Straight Away
Today I came across a video from 2014 from The Happiness Start-Up School Summercamp where I was interviewed about starting … More
How Airbnb Cut 25% of Its Workforce
Every day we have been witnessing examples of great leadership (or not so great). On its face, the approach to … More
HelloFresh
It’s an exciting day today. Our weekly HelloFresh order of 5 tasty meals for the week has arrived.. Prior to … More
The Challenge for Video-Conferencing Vendors
Yesterday I participated in a 4hr virtual symposium called ‘Disruption 2020’ run by the MIT Sloan Management Review. If you … More
Strategy Tools
Recently I came across Strategy Tools and the founder Christian Rangen. He has put together a series of simple tools … More
Reed Hastings
As part of the 30 Disruptive Leaders in 30 Days Challenge that I set myself here, today I provide some … More
Zooming
I came across an article this week here which asked whether Corona Virus (CV) could present a tipping point for … More
Understanding Product-Market Fit
“The term product/market fit describes ‘the moment when a startup finally finds a widespread set of customers that resonate with … More
The Hype Cycle
I came across an article today which talked about why IoT has fallen short of expectations (check it out here). … More
Interview – Lance Plunkett
One of the first people I met when moving to Guernsey was a fellow Australian called Lance Plunkett. He was … More
Why Start-Ups Fail
I came across this infographic recently. It made me grin. As I’m a few years passed my own start-up failure, … More
Introducing Start-Up Thinking
Since exiting the start-up I founded in 2011, I’ve been thinking a lot about lessons learnt. In particular, what were … More
The Art of Customer Development
I recently crossed paths again with an excellent summary (from Mike Fishbein – link below) of key questions when developing … More
