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Startup Tools

13 entries

Field notes, workshops, and frameworks on launching to learn, clock speed, and building products.

Apr 2026
FT: Why Alphabet’s VC arm has doubled down on Europe

Financial Times interview on why GV has doubled down on European AI, life sciences, and deep-tech founders from London.

Apr 2025
20VC with Stan Boland

Conversation with Harry Stebbings & semiconductor entrepreneur Stan Boland on lessons from Jensen Huang and strengthening the UK & European tech ecosystem.

Apr 2024
20VC episode

20VC Episode 1150 on lessons from a 24x angel track record, backing category leaders early, clock speed, and founder empathy.

Apr 2024
Founder Factory – Insights & Trends

Five field lessons for founders: why growth vs. profitability isn’t binary, startup clock speed, pre-seed empathy, choosing investors, and regime change in data.

Jul 2013
Techstars & IDEO Workshop materials (Purpose, Empathy & Experiments)

We were very pleased to spend a morning with the first London Techstars batch.  I've done this a few times with HackFwd companies now…

Jul 2013
Crowdsourced Startup Tools

A couple of years ago I began crowdsourcing useful startup tools in this Google Document. Wired kindly wrote about it here so it got…

Jul 2013
Launch to Learn (for Harvard Business Review)

Recorded talk and presentation on design, emergence, and building user-centered products.

Feb 2013
Open your product to unlock its full potential (from Wired)

This article was taken from the February 2013 issue of Wired magazine. Play-Doh was originally invented in the US as a wallpaper cleaner in the 1930s. It…

Aug 2011
It’s OK to launch before you’re ready (for FT)

Original article published in the FT Most of us have built prototypes to communicate and validate our ideas. Even a simple sketch or mock-up of an…

Jul 2011
Watch the Disruptors not the Incumbents (from IoD Magazine)

This is an article I originally wrote for the IoD Magazine here If you want to turn a competitor's advantage into a weakness, start by widening…

Jun 2011
IDEO Helps Big Companies Learn From Start-ups (from Forbes)

From original article by Peter Cohen in Forbes. One of the biggest problems a large company faces is how to create and capture growth opportunities while…

Oct 2010
Visualise your Business Model (for HackFwd)

For HackFwd we developed a very simple tool to visualise business models, we found that it helped Founders describe their vision and think through the interdependencies.…

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