I’ve spent alot of time thinking about community power lately and how Founders and Entrepreneurs engage them. For any early-stage founder, gaining insights is essentially 90% of your work in the early stages. Forget company registrations, share division or setting up a website. Your focus is on understanding the problem…

Credibility is defined as ‘the quality of being trusted and believed in’. Credibility is the art of convincing someone that you can do what you say. I’ve spent hours pitching or helping other people construct (what I hoped) were an award-winning or income creating business pitches. When I look back…

2021: Resources for Startups & SMEs 🌱 At the start of the year, I’d put together a list of resources that I felt would be useful to startups and SME’s. Looking back, it now seems that everything pre-March 2020 belongs to a different time. So in light of the changes…

And..here…we…go. Startup Discovery School is now live. If I’m honest, it feels like a long time coming. I’ve spent the best part of the last decade working across the Startup Ecosystem both directly and indirectly. Between 2009–13, which feels like a different life, I focused on supporting young people as…

Regardless of final destination, we can all agree that things will be different in a post-Cornavirus world. I’ve spent the last decade working across the UK Startup Ecosystem and the road ahead reminds of those early days back in 2008–10 in the aftermath of the financial crash. During that period I worked for a well established Business Education charity focused on supporting young entrepreneurs. Over the course of 18 months, we lost funding, cut staff and eventually became a very different business to the one that existed pre-2008 (for the better with hindsight).

I get it, there are mixed views when it comes to Accelerators. If you’re someone that believes they’re all over-hyped pitch fests with little or no viable businesses emerging….this post is NOT for you (sorry, not sorry) However, if you believe that in a mix of chaos and structured support…

We’re in the age of the Accelerator and it seems you can’t open a broom cupboard without someone launching a new Accelerator, Incubator, Venture Lab, Studio and so on. For the purpose of this article I’ll use the term ‘Accelerator’ to capture them all. The choice of where to be…

In my unofficial role as African Diaspora Ambassador 😁 I attended the Oxford Business Forum Africa 2019 at Said Business School. Why? Well, for the last few years I’ve been interested in focusing more of my efforts on connecting the diaspora to opportunities on the African Continent. This years theme…