From idea to MVP in 30 minutes
Some context: As well as my main company Spook Studio, I’m also behind The Happy Startup School. We’re helping a new breed of entrepreneur to realise their dreams…
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Why happiness should be your business model
Last year saw a huge surge in startup businesses across the UK. The Startup Britain campaign estimated 460,000 businesses were founded in the last 12 months. With only 25% of all…
Help me write
No, really please. Read on… I just discovered Help Me Write – a neat little site from Stef, Jon and the gang at Makeshift, a product…
Top 10 startup mistakes (and how to avoid them)
I’m writing an article for .net on common mistakes startups make and how to avoid them. The article will be out in June. Here’s a teaser.…
Design thinking and startups: A good match?
I was interviewed by Victor Helmre, a Master’s student writing a thesis as part of a program called Business & Design – a collaboration between a…
Some awesome startup workshop videos available (thanks Google Ventures!)
Brilliant news that Google are making their Startup Lab videos available to the public this week. Startup labs are a series of workshops Google offer to…
10 steps to avoid startup suicide (death by 1000 feature requests!)
Guest post by Carlos Saba, Technical Co-founder Spook Studio When launching a new startup there isn’t just the danger of building the wrong product but also killing…
10 things I’ve learnt about lean startup
This is a transcript of my recent talk at Lean startup Brighton. In this article I’ll be highlighting the things I’ve learnt from applying lean startup…
Lean Startup movement reaches incredible heights (with further to fall?)
via blog.leanstartupmachine.com Nice post by Trevor Owens, CEO of Lean Startup Machine, the weekend lean startup accelerator that now runs regular events worldwide. He highlights the fact that we’re just at the beginning of an incredible period of…
Kill your ideas before you build them (whether you’ve got funding or not)
I saw an interesting talk by Tom Chi from Google a couple of months back about how they experiment and validate/invalidate their ideas. They basically run a ton of experiments at any one time and create quick, low-fi prototypes rather than using a…
Why We’re Pivoting from Mobile-first to Web-first
Image by Jeremy Mansfield (http://dribbble.com/shots/653711-Mobile-First-Desktop-color) Check out this website I found at philosophically.com Intriguing argument about why Moble-first isn’t the best choice for Lean Startups. Low conversions and in…
