Top lines.. Last week Apple released their results and outperformed expectations. Revenue for the quarter was a mere $45.4bn up 7% and so everyone was very happy but should they be? Mobile is not what it used to be. The quarter just gone is typically a quiet one as sales start to slow as expectations for the new iPhone release…

Net neutrality is back on the agenda. This is the idea that all Internet users should have equal access to all Internet services. …

Account Based Marketing (ABM) is nothing new — it has been talked about since the early nineties. So why has it become the hot topic in B2B marketing now? Account Based Marketing is the idea that you selectively target the accounts you want to talk to rather than the best…

Having spent the best part of two decades working on the cutting edge of martech, I spend a chunk of time talking (debating!) about what’s next and what’s hyperbole. Given the downturn in adtech last year and the knock-on effect on martech. Is 2017 going to be a good year? …

Image by Jeff Sheldon This is the second in the series of posts on early stage investments for technology startups. You can read the first one here. In the last post I told you to avoid raising money wherever possible. …

Yesterday, whilst drinking a well earned hot chocolate at Shoreditch Grind, I was debating the importance of naming a startup. One of my old colleagues, Scott Voigt once told me about the bike-shed example, which I now know to be Parkinson’s law of triviality. It basically says that organisations spend…

Remember those days when you went to school, completed your degree and suddenly you didn’t need to learn anymore? I’m pretty sure those days never really existed☺It is clearly getting harder to keep up with industry content though.. More and more content is being created at an ever increasing rate…

I’ve spent 20 years working in startups now. A few were my own, others not so much and I managed to get an exit or two along the way. …