A collection of 12 posts
A few months back I moved on from Patchwork—a health-tech startup that’s bringing flexible working to healthcare. When I joined as its product lead, we were at 1 NHS Trust. Just shy of 2 years later and the company is fast approaching 20—double digit marketshare. It has
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This was an identity idea for an eco-friendly home builder. Cushy never got to see the light of day so sharing it here with your lovely eyes.
Read moreAfter 2 years I’m moving on from Patchwork to join Ideal—where we’re building gorgeous, eco-friendly homes that don’t cost our planet.
Read moreOne of the things I’m piss poor at is stakeholder engagement—enabling everyone see tradeoffs the way I can. Sadly the problem exacerbates as your company scales. Helpful to see Chris Thewell speaking at the UX Crunch last night. On the dial ask What are we optimising for? Unpack
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Admittedly it’s taken us longer than it should have, but here’s the story behind Fruitful and how we raised over £500,000 of venture funding, built and shipped a marketplace that attracted £1.8million of lending, captured the minds of recognised experts in the field as well as
Read more“Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in.” — Isaac Asimov When you’re building a company, your ability to make good assumptions can be the difference between skyrocketing or skydiving. A few bad calls in
Read moreLast Tuesday I popped in to DoES Liverpool to see Matthew Hughes give a talk on how to pitch your product to the press. He’s a tech journalist at MakeUseOf — so he had some lessons to share from the other side of the table. In no real order: Be
Read moreIt’s nearly been a year since I joined Fruitful - a fintech startup that’s working to rethink how savers save and how borrowers borrow. Since then we’ve been through a significant product redesign, a complete branding overhaul, a successful soft-launch and a customer response that has more
Read moreA few months ago I was asked by Sage to be one of their business experts. Thinking that sounded a bit like something from The Office, I asked what the role would involve. The team explained that I'd be rolling my sleeves up and helping the business community by sharing
Read moreTogether with Matt Richards, I'm organising an event in Liverpool on June 20th 2013. With the hope of bringing together those working on tech products and ideas, Demo asks a simple question; what are you working on? Hosted at DoES Liverpool, the event will be made up of a maximum
Read moreThe trick with learning to ski is to start off steady. Making pizza shapes with your skis helps to regulate a comfortable speed for gently coasting down the green slopes. Of course, quickly you become better at this and you begin measuring progress against the amount of times you fall
Read moreJust under a year ago I was invited on to the judging panel for PC World’s Generation Y campaign. The initiative focused on discovering and rewarding young business people and entrepreneurs in the technology space. The applicants and their companies / projects / ideas were outstanding. A crystal clear reminder that
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