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I like to start things and make things. For the last 15 years this has mostly been as a founder or product leader. More recently I have been exploring grassroot communities, social impact, and the value of real-life (rather than software) experiences.
I’ve lived and worked in several countries and am very happy to be back home in sun-drenched Australia (living between an escarpment and the ocean) with my beautiful wife Meg (not to mention our dogs Ziggy, Lucy and Ralph as well as our chooks Grace and Frankie).
Work
I co-founded digital venture studio Early Days in 2015. Alongside my co-founder Ian McCallam and a hand-picked collective of expert collaborators, we work out of a sunny studio in Surry Hills in Sydney.
Early Days helps entrepreneurial spirits build new digital ventures and products.
If you need help bringing your digital venture/idea/product/start-up/spin-up to life, come by Surry Hills and have a chat.
Previous work:
- Somewhere – Co-Founder (Berlin)
- Made by Many – Strategy Director (London)
- Goodcompany – General Manager (Sydney)
- LinkedIn if you really must.
Talks
- The Do Lectures – Pointing the camera back (Wales 2014)
- Creative Mornings – Bravery and Other Fairytales (Berlin 2013)
- Ignite Berlin – Find The Others (Berlin, no video available)
Nowadays I limit any talks or presentations to teams and small companies. Get in touch if you’d like to hear tales from the trenches of entreprenuerism, startups and digitl ventures.
Side Projects
- Beginners – Sharing food and personal stories.
- The Side Project Canvas – Help to get started.
- Berlin Doors – Street art doors of Berlin.
- I Confide – Revealing hidden lives.
- Street Vox – An experiment in public expression.
- HausStarter – Tongue-in-cheek apartment hunting.
Keen to kickstart a side-project and can’t get going? Happy to chat over a coffee and help you find a good place to start.
Select Articles
- How Start-ups Fall Into The ‘Sandwich Trap’ (Sep 2018)
- The 4-Part Cheat Sheet for Business Transformation (Sep 2017)
- Founders, We Need To Talk About Your Baby (Jan 2016)
- Say Hello to Early Days (Dec 2015)
- 3 Reasons Its Tough To Achieve New Product Success (Oct 2015)
- Why LinkedIn Can’t Solve The Monday Morning Blues (Oct 2013)
- The Time is Now to Share Your Work With The World (Jul 2013)
- Of Running Lean and Jumping Fences (Aug 2011)
- It’s Not Easy Being Lean (Jun 2011)
- What Customers Want, or The Empty Hamburger Dilemma (Aug 2010)
- A Manifesto for Agile Strategy (Mar 2010)
Recent articles are a bit rare but you can follow along at Medium.