About
I help early-stage ventures get up and running. Over the last 15 years I have been a founder, adviser and product lead for a range of startups. Lately I’ve been exploring communities of practice, social vs individual impact, and the future of work in a post-pandemic world.
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 and our mad dogs Ziggy, Lucy and Ralph, and a fair few chooks.
Work
I currently work as a Venture Architect / Advisor with Josephmark.
Josephmark was established in 2004, when the term ‘venture studio’ simply meant that we had a lot of explaining to do. Soon enough – and with a lot of effort, skill, and love – Josephmark and the venture studio model grew in kind. Now, we span two continents and 50+ team members, with decades of experience creating, designing, growing, and connecting world-class brands and businesses..
Previous work:
- Early Days – Co-founder (and still adviser)
- 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.