EduTech meetup in San Francisco
Just arrived in the UK but before I left San Francisco I was fortunate to attend a fascinating meetup of people from the EduTech (Education Technology) community with ArtistWorks founder David Butler. EduTech is a very exciting area at the moment as entrepreneurs and investors in the for-profit and not-for-profit sectors look to re-imagine education […]
Money, Money, Money?
San Francisco and Silicon Valley are exciting places to be living just now as a number of tech companies go public and turn their founders into millionaires overnight. Most of these founders are the same age as me (in their 30’s), but what I find interesting is that this is a generation of entrepreneurs that […]
If Carlsberg made dentists
Just before I left the UK my friend and Scottish uber-agent Douglas Gillespie told me about a very different kind of dental practice he’s discovered. First off if you’re anything like me you treat going to the dentist with a mix of dread and annoyance. Douglas was telling me about this amazing Dental surgery (they […]
Top 10 Father’s Day ideas
Father’s Day is this Sunday and if you’ve left getting a present till the last minute here are some cool last minute suggestions for those music mad dad’s.
All Marketers Are Liars – Video Book Review
Seth Godin is probably the leading living writer on marketing and his blog is one of the most widely read. The reason he has such a local following is because of the clarity of his insights on the role of marketing in the spreading of ideas. His latest book ‘All Marketers Are Liars’ is about the stories we tell to sell our products, services, brands and even political candidates. If you want a deep, a really deep understanding of marketing in the 21st Century then you should read this book. It will make you think in a whole new way.