Before I say anything else, a great big (actual, non-ironic) *** thank you! *** to all the kind London OpenCoffee’ers who so generously gave me their feedback on the first (extremely rough) draft of my presentation for next month’s UCL Entrepreneurship Guest Lecture that I posted here a few days ago. Yes, it definitely needed more structure (thanks Larry), more clarity [...]
In a few weeks’ time, I’ll be giving a lecture at University College London as part of their Entrepreneurship Guest Lecture series. Between you and me, my guess is that the organizers asked me because I’m specifically not one of the numerous “startup success theatre” aren’t-I-clever-for-getting-funded-don’t-you-wish-you-were-as-clever-as-me types you typically find putting themselves forward for lectures. Rather, what seems [...]
Willkommen! Earlier this week, the Technology Strategy Board’s held its “Innovate11″ conference at the Business Design Centre in Islington: but rather than traipse into town and lose a day’s work, I decided to stay working at my PC with the TSB’s live web stream burbling in the background. As you’d hope/expect, there were plenty of familiar faces [...]
Here’s a diagram which explains clearly my view of the current UK startup financing landscape:- Am I right? Am I wrong? Please let me know what you think by leaving a comment below! Thanks!
…how would they make films? First of all, they wouldn’t do anything so consciously planned as write a script – oh no, that would be far too deterministic and control freakish. Only an MBA trapped in the early 1970s would start with a plot treatment, let alone a shooting script, right? No, the #1 thing Lean Startups [...]
If you run into blogging VCs, Be wary of their expertise! They’ll tell you how Lean Makes your balance sheet clean (Though they treat it just like a disease).
Sometimes, the verb ‘is’ surprises you, by introducing a link between two things you didn’t previously know were the same.For example, philosophy students typically get fed Gottlob Frege’s example of Hesperus (“der Abendstern”, the evening star) and Phosphorus (“der Morgenstern”, the morning star): though a shepherd may have noticed both stars, he/she may be surprised to be told that Hesperus is Phosphorus, [...]
Eric Ries’ 2011 book “The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses” has garnered lots of attention, and indeed plenty of favourable reviews. He’s a thoughtful guy, who has been gradually building up interest in his “Lean Startup” ideas over the last few years: if you haven’t really heard of it, [...]
I had a perfectly lovely conversation with my commercial bank manager this afternoon, though what moved me most was his nostalgic wistfulness (mainly about cupcakes) rather than anything remotely approaching business common sense. However, it was enough to help me put a load of disparate pieces together into a single reasonably coherent picture: so here’s [...]
