CEOs of organisations from start-ups to global corporates rightly pay attention to the culture of their organisations. As Peter Drucker once said, “Culture eats strategy for breakfast”. Whether it’s something that's been consciously developed or simply evolved over time, culture is essentially “how we do things around...
Mutual Benefits has been participating and partnering with NOAH since 2009; it’s an event that always delivers on the quality of companies and investors across the European digital ecosystem. Indeed, NOAH’s past list of scale-ups reveals a “who’s who” of Unicorns attending conferences in London and Berlin....
Business-to-business (B2B) startups have a particular challenge when it comes to developing repeatable and sustainable revenue. As a startup you go through several phases as you refine your proposition, business model and target markets. It’s an iterative process, perfectly captured in Eric Ries’ "Lean Startup". But with B2B...
After a long lay-off over the last two months, mainly due to a lot of travelling and client work, I finally decided I needed to bite the bullet and get back into training. I’ve set myself a goal of completing the Outlaw Half triathlon next year, which gives...
In his book, Delivering Happiness, Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos, talks about the similarities between poker and business. After co-founding and selling the internet advertising network LinkExchange to Microsoft in 1999 for $265 million, Tony got into playing poker. I guess when you’ve made that kind of...
