There are 100’s of cool tools out there, some more helpful than others. These are the genuine game-changers. — Despite the government sending people back to manual labour, work from home is going to be happening for many of us for a lot longer than initially predicted. To get the most of it (and ourselves) we need to stop treating #WFH like work in the office, and adopt new…

Pitching for investment last week demanded we work out how are we going to amass serious user traction. — Reach Out has been a very cool idea for some time now. The platform that links psychotherapists in emerging nations with people in need anywhere will provide low-cost provision that is time and location flexible. It's simple and effective. So everyone would use it, right? However, pitching for investment demands…

In an industry that is high in costs, labour and environmental damage, AI in construction is a force for good The industries that have the biggest environmental impact are routinely framed as agriculture, including meat and dairy, and fossil fuels, namely oil. In January 2020, however, The Guardian reported that…

No longer is there such a chasm between powerful corporations and the startups that are trying to disrupt the traditional hierarchies. — Silicon Roundabout attended Oracle Openworld in London to find out how Oracle’s global startup program is allowing innovative startups to blaze a trail in some of the most exciting sectors out there. Blockchain for Product Provenance Now the blockchain evangelism of 5–10 years ago has cooled down, cases of real-world problem-solving form the world’s…

When it comes to health and wellbeing, tech can be the problem and the solution. These three startups are firmly on the side of the solution. — Health and wellbeing can be a tricky place for tech startups to operate. There is no doubt that addiction and overreliance on technology can cause sleeplessness, anxiety and contribute to overall poor mental health. That’s why, at least in its current incarnation, technology cannot be the cure-all panacea that many…

Facebook’s audacious mantra defined the “disruptive” energy of the Web 2.0 era, but now we need to change the way we work and be more considered with our tech builds — Have you heard the news, the move fast and break things era is over? Moving quickly and destroying everything may have been exciting back in the noughties, giving us the platforms that defined a generation (Facebook, Uber and Airbnb et al.), but their extraordinary success came at deep societal costs.

After two and a half years of bootstrapped consultancy, we attracted smart investment and changed our business for the better — Investment can be a double-edged sword. With money comes politics, high returns and questions of ownership. A cash injection can cure one problem but bring new ailments. Or so goes the well-rehearsed, “Startup Horror Story”. That’s why we’ve dismissed investment in the past. But this time, everything just felt right…

The two disparate movements are finally paying attention to each other, but how do you fair when it comes to the golden triangle of breathing, playing and talking? — In 2018, tech leader Stewart Rogers lost a friend to suicide every month of the year, except December. That’s 11 in total. A mixture of drink, drugs or some other form of self-harm, Roger’s friends were lost not to mental health, per se, but “to the industry”. …

There’s been a Tectonic shift at Metier Digital. — 30 months in and it’s time for a change at Metier Digital. Rebranding isn’t in the ordinary startup roadmap but this is an essential revision because we’re not the same business that we were in 2017. The biggest development is our value proposition. After two years and 30+ clients, we…