I was on a podcast Abhishek Kumar invited me onto his ‘Steal My Marketing’ podcast (thanks for the introduction Hrishi). If you listen to it you’ll hear me talking about t-shirts, YCLDN, 9others, DMG, networking, hustle and more. 2 x 10 years of lessons My career is easily split into two decade long stints and, while there are show notes below (thanks Abhishek), I wanted to also share the top three things I thought about after listening again today, which are: 1. You only get today once I knew YCLDN was such a good idea I just had to talk to people and make it happen. I didn’t care if it ..read more

Episode 11 with Emma Maslen Emma Maslen is Vice President & General Manager, EMEA & APAC at Ping Identity, a leading provider of cloud identity security solutions and has spent her corporate career in enterprise sales. Alongside this Emma is part of the Angel Academe and has made most of her investment with that network. In this episode we talked about why Emma decided to invest in her first startup, how she spreads her risk as an Angel Investor and what a ‘coachable’ entrepreneur looks like. The Education of an Angel Investor Podcast Written, presented and edited by Matthew Staff ..read more

Episode 7 with Richard Koch Richard Koch is a former management consultant, entrepreneur and the author of several books, including “The 80/20 Principle: The Secret of Achieving More with Less”. Richard has used the concepts he writes about to become a successful angel investor included investments in Filofax, Plymouth Gin, the Great Little Trading Company and Betfair. Previously he had been a consultant at Boston Consulting Group and later a Partner at Bain and Company, before leaving to start the management consulting firm L.E.K. Consulting with Jim Lawrence and Iain Evans. Richard’s lates ..read more