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tech talkfest – tips for startups

I had the pleasure last night of appearing as a panellist at the August Tech TalkFest event in London. I joined Marion Gamel from EventBrite, Christine Reilly from PR firm Hotwire, and David Davies from Bates Wells Braithwaite LLP talking business tips for startups. Feeling something of a fraud given my one-week status as a startup,Continue reading “tech talkfest – tips for startups”

collaborative warfare

I stumbled across a piece written by LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner on the topic of defensive diary scheduling yesterday – see http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20130403215758-22330283-the-importance-of-scheduling-nothing. It’s a telling indictment of how technology that was supposed to make us more productive has led to shadow working practices for us to survive. It’s not an unfamiliar story – the dirty secretContinue reading “collaborative warfare”

21st century consulting

You don’t have to spend long knocking around most big organisations before you’ll hear the term “best practice”. It’s the often mythical idea that because one group of people in one part of an organisation have found a good way of doing something, that way of working can be lifted and shifted to other partsContinue reading “21st century consulting”

from the archives: the power of analogy

Matt speaking at Metaphwoar 2012 on the power of analogy in software design… http://vimeo.com/60007228

Imperica feature on Matt Ballantine

In the run up to the Silicon Beach event in Bournemouth next month, Imperica’s Clare-Marie Grigg interview’s Stamp’s founder Matt. Read it in full here.