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The Parable of the Lucky Horse

An old farmer worked his crops for many years. He had a horse but it ran away. His neighbour said, “Suck bad luck, I'm so sorry. You must be so upset.” “We'll see", the farmer replied. A few days later, the horse returned with 10

Finding a Startup COO

How do you find a startup COO? I've been lucky enough to be a COO (Chief Operating Officer) in three companies, all startups, all following their Series-A funding. (Bookatable [http://www.bookatable.com], HouseTrip [http://www.housetrip.com] and IOVOX [http://www.iovox.com]). As such I have

Hacking Fashion

It was inspiring to see the energy and enthusiasm of the teams at Decoded's London Fashion Hackathon this weekend. I was lucky to be on the judging panel. Their brief was to present a technical solution that can help fashion brands. Over 25 different teams demo-ed on Sunday

Friday Feeding Vol. 9

Each Friday I share 5 articles that I found interesting or useful. Here's this week's batch... Why Apple needs to fix App Store search [http://www.macworld.com/article/2151387/why-apple-needs-to-fix-app-store-search.html] by Simon Morlium [https://twitter.com/morlium] * App store search results are the new

Here's Some Content Marketing About Content Marketing

Content marketing is one way to get noticed these days. Another is to pull off a Branson-esque PR stunt by doing something silly like flying around the world in a balloon. Or - you could just pay someone to run your ad, like a TV station for example. Most of

Addict? Do You Launch Apps More Than 60 Times A Day?

The chart above is taken from a recent post by Flurry entitled, "The Rise of the Mobile Addict" [http://www.flurry.com/bid/110166/the-rise-of-the-mobile-addict]. Flurry have defined a “Mobile Addict” as someone who launches apps 6 times more per day than the average. (At present, that'

3 Questions Any Product Manager Should Ask

Keeping it simple, here are the 3 most important questions to ask; 1. Who are you building your product for and what is their pain? 2. What would address your customers’ pain and improve their lives? 3. What will you actually build? These questions are highlighted by Pat Kinsel [https:

Friday Feeding Vol. 8

Each Friday I share 5 articles that I found interesting or useful. Here's this week's batch... These are the Best Titles for Blog Posts and this is why.. [http://www.pedropereira.co.uk/these-are-the-best-titles-for-posts-and-this-is-why/] by Pedro Pereira [https://twitter.com/InovPedro] * You know you want to

Strategies For Better User Reviews

In ecommerce, a tried and tested method of improving conversion is to provide information on "what other people think about this product". (User reviews). As well as influencing conversion at the point of sale, they can encourage customers to click on your site in the first place. How?

Tabs, Pads and Boards

In the post-PC era, we are getting closer to the vision of ubiquitous computing, a termed coined by Mark Weiser in 1988 (a chief scientist at Xerox PARC in the U.S.). Simply put, computing would be on any device, in any location, and in any format. We're