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Techbikers, 10 days to go, £1k raised so far

I just want to say a BIG THANK YOU to all of you who have kindly sponsored me for the upcoming Techbikers Paris to London (320km) bike ride, raising money for RoomtoRead [http://www.roomtoread.org/]. My original target was £1,000 and that target has been hit with 10

To Improve Your Ask, Say Why

You're in a queue to buy a train ticket. If you don't buy your ticket in the next 3 minutes you will miss your train. You need to find a way to be served next. Which of these would most likely get you a place at

What's In A Good Board Pack?

Founders who succesfully start a business and raise funding soon find they have board meetings to prepare for. What do you need to include? There's no absolute right and wrong answer to this, but at a high level there following topics need to be covered; * Business performance overview

Ecommerce: More visits now from mobile than desktop

You'll remember this picture. We humans are very good at recalling pictures. You'll also perhaps associate this thought with the image... "I remember it was in about 2014, about 7 years after the introduction of apps and mobile internet, that online mobile shopping became more

"A system's optimal performance can tell you something about it's design"

I read this sentence this morning in a book I'm reading, Moonwalking With Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything [http://www.amazon.co.uk/Moonwalking-Einstein-Science-Remembering-Everything/dp/0141032138A] . I was stopped in my tracks and reflected. The context of the sentence was a discussion the author had

A Great Company Gets Bought, Not Sold

OK, so that's not entirely true. The sale of a company still requires a great pitch deck, great presentation skills, strong networks, hard negotiating, nerves of steel, a compelling plan for growth and a leader to believe in. That's the case if the company is being

Friday Feeding Vol. 22

Each Friday I share 5 articles that I found interesting or useful. Why You Don't Understand "Disruption" [http://www.barnetttalks.com/2014/08/why-you-dont-understand-disruption.html] by Stanford's Bill Barnett [https://twitter.com/barnettTalks] * It's a common view that big companies struggle to

Disruption and Organisational Debt

[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:VaraderoBeach21.JPG#mediaviewer/File:VaraderoBeach21.JPG] "VaraderoBeach21 [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:VaraderoBeach21.JPG#mediaviewer/File:VaraderoBeach21.JPG] " by AlejandroLinaresGarcia [//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:AlejandroLinaresGarcia] - Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.

Startup Capital For Solo Founders

Wessel Kooyman, CEO of Cole Street [http://www.colestreet.com/], wrote an interesting blog post called "Startup founders: Should you be a solo founder?" [http://www.colestreet.com/startup-founders-should-you-be-a-solo-founder/] Wessel articulates some of the challenges facing solo founders and presents a balanced view of the pros and cons

You're Not Going To Fluke Success

[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AST_vs_RCT_2012_12_Jonny_Wilkinson.jpg] World Cup-winning former England fly-half Jonny Wilkinson retired from rugby at the end of the 2013-14 season. I remember sitting on the edge of my seat watching the 2003 Rugby World Cup Final against Australia. England