Why We Chose React Native

The story of a startup technology choice

I first met James Eder, the founder of Causr, in November of 2015.

Sipping coffee in a cosy London café, I listened with interest to his ambitious idea of creating a…

Why we launched iOS first?

How to name your startup?

Naming a company is very personal. Often perhaps meaning more to the founder or founders than anyone else. Starting an App I wanted to create a name that meant something. The process started with going through a process of elimination, the initial number of obvious names, those are…

Manufacturing Serendipity

How meeting the right person led to a £500,000 business deal.

Despite ‘App’athy why does the world needs another app?

Launching Student Beans back in 2005 came with different challenges, smart phones didn’t exist, we didn’t need to worry if we were on iOS, Android, Windows and Web all at the same time. Despite there being around 1 million results…

What’s stopping you from joining the dots?

What that? Whatsapp! Changing your community one group at a time.

It was January 2014 and I moved into a block of flats in North London, Kentish Town — it’s a re-development that has been converted 9 years earlier from an old school. As I settled in I was struck at how quiet the building was and despite there being 25 flats…

The 3 Pillars enabling connectivity

A few years ago I was sitting on the Underground in London when someone came and sat in the seat next to me. They were clutching their CV, so I asked them where they’d been and what they were looking for. A few weeks later, we were sat together again, this time in my…

Manufacturing Serendipity & Adventures with BlaBlaCar

Hope rises you up, fear brings you down

The Tales Of Our Users

Today’s user, Dr Harriet Treacy works in healthcare in the East Midlands. Her passion is to empower the over 65s to take control of their health and overall wellbeing through social interaction and…