Your Startup Technical Advisor

Every month, I offer a limited number of free 30-minute consultations to startup founders and business owners. If you’d like to benefit from this, please get in touch. Ideally come with a specific problem you want advice on and I’ll see how I can help. My background is technical, so non-tech founders might particularly find […]

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Does your EdTech Startup need an Advisor?

Avoiding the pitfalls of working in a vacuum As humans, we know we need oxygen to survive, and the same goes for ideas. Stifle an idea in a vacuum and it’s probably going to die. How do we avoid this? In a word: collaboration. Collaborative learning I am a great advocate of collaborative learning. As […]

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Embed, Partner, Validate

Advice for Early Stage Startup Founders If you can, embed yourself in the market well before you launch. It’s much easier to sell as an insider than it is as an outsider. You can partner with prospective customers to help them understand their problems better and therefore find solutions to those problems more easily. Make […]

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The Journey to Chartered IT Professional (CITP)

From teenage coder to Tech Advisor with CITP status I’ve been in tech since I was a teenager. Of course, back then, things were very different to today. The web was still evolving. Social media platforms were still up and coming. Facebook? Twitter? Nope… none of that. My adventures in web development began with with […]

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