The COVID pandemic forced us to replace our in-person offsite retreat with a virtual retreat. Here’s what I learnt. In 2016 we decided to make Whisk a 100% distributed company. Instead of having everyone in an office our team can work from anywhere in the world. Today we have over…

I’ll be experimenting with working remotely for the next 3–4 months — working from co-working spaces in Australia, Japan, Vietnam and India. This blog post is about why. Over the last 24 months our team has organically moved towards a more and more globally distributed team. …

Something that has fascinated me since starting to build companies is how certain companies do extremely well very quickly, while others fail slowly. Particularly fascinating is how some of the most successful companies are not really building anything ground-breakingly new. We should all strive to succeed with more certainty There’s…

Looking to pitch your business to new investors? There are lists for that. These will save you some serious time. 1. Crowd-sourced Investor List An amazing list by people involved in Techstars, made viral on twitter, then filled out by loads of people in London. This one has sheets between Company Builders, VCs, Loans, Angel Groups, Angels, Crowdfunding and Accelerators. URL: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10S7_jBpRoWuNMnOYpkjFJArt76dPhFw0tIR7E_ndgnk/edit#gid=221563747

When explaining your business to potential investors you’re probably being asked for a pitch deck for review. Crafting one that communicates the vision well in the average 3 minutes and 44 seconds that investors spend on your deck can often take more than a few weeks! …

Most successful people recognise the importance of self improvement. Especially when starting out, it can be hard to know what content to learn in order to prepare yourself to run a startup. Personally I find that going through this content again while running a startup is very useful also. This…

The discussion often arises between company founders around the questions “when shall I start marketing hard?” or “how much shall I spend on marketing?” In the early days, investors and friends often asked why we didn’t do more heavy marketing but my gut instinct always told me to hold off…

Unless you’re lucky, it takes a lot more time than you and maybe your investors first think in order to get a tech startup to become highly successful and begin on the path of hockey-stick growth. When you leave behind the opportunity of a highly paid job you’ll get both…

I find the concept that learning and achievements compound very motivating, and thought it was worth writing a short post on it. “If others would think as hard as I did, they would get similar results” Isaac Newton Consider this (unrealistic) equation for a moment. If you improve by 1%…