We’re really just getting started with Bethnal Green Ventures. We believe that tech has the potential to massively change the world for the better, solving big problems in healthcare, education and sustainability to name a few. We believe that there’s no shortage of people out there who have the talent and desire to build the […]
Monthly archives: November 2013
Positive thinking for startups
I have good days and bad days. I admit there are moments when I think that working on startups is futile and that none of the ideas we back will ever work as well as we want them to. On days like that I see all the reasons big institutions will hold back the kind […]
If Atlas gave a damn
I wish I’d taken a photo. It was a year or so ago and there was a bit of a kerfuffle over the influence of Ayn Rand on tech startup thinking so I decided I should read the most famous of her novels Atlas Shrugged while I was on a trip to the US. For […]
The power of small teams
A few weeks ago, sitting in the audience at O’Reilly’s (very good) Cultivate conference about startup culture I started to think about the power of working in small teams, and how little you hear about it how to do it well. By small I mean two to five people — any larger and other dynamics start to […]
Writing every day
Euan’s post prompted me to think about how it’s such a struggle to try and write something every day. I know I want to but have to play mind games with myself to actually make it happen. I was doing quite well earlier this year but then everything seemed to step up a level at […]