UK Founders are Way Too Posh! (apparently) After reading a Wired article which struck a chord, I felt like getting out the fountain pen for UK Founders, we’re apparently too posh. Let’s start from the beginning… My father was a Japanese shipping...
Beware of the Great White Shark I was 6 months in from quitting my day job in architecture. My £12k bank loan and survival funds were quickly drying up. It was clear that building a website and app for a year was one mountain to climb, the next would be to build a...
Behind the scenes of raising £1.1 million It was 9am on 17th February, I received a text from my lawyer. It read; “Carl it’s in… I need you to sign a document to initiate the transfer.” I got the text msg in the middle of a rough arse gym in Ilford, East London...
You’ll be surprised the people you can meet on a train in London. I was at a conference a couple of years ago watching Dhiraj Mukherjee tell his whirlwind story to a thousand people of co-founding his startup, Shazam, that music app we all use. Little did I know, the...
