Category Archives: Campus London

Passing the torch

“We cannot hold a torch to light another’s path without brightening our own.” — Ben Sweetland I’ve been incredibly lucky to be able to start things both in my personal life and professional career. I love the rush of creating something out of nothing, pouring all my energy into the project, working hard and often …

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The Story of Techbikers (You can Play a role too)

This is the story of Techbikers. When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it. Techies, community and charity, coming together for a higher purpose.

Thank you Israel for welcoming our British startup (Guest post)

Guest post by Daniel Abrahams, founder of CurrencyTransfer. I’ve always been intrigued by the success of the ‘Startup Nation.’ In this post, I want to share my story. That of a British startup which naively arrived for three months in Tel Aviv and hasn’t looked back since.

Words of Encouragement for European Startups

The Eurozone is in crisis – GDP numbers point to the worst recession since 1999 and major economies are shrinking. That said, the startup ecosystems are growing and have lot to be optimistic about. I urge founders to also consider the good news and take on a more positive outlook based on “this is water”‘ by David Foster Wallace.

Video: How can your startup make use of Campus London?

I had a great pleasure to host Don Dodge at Campus last month for our one year anniversary to speak with the venture community in London about Campus, startups and Google. Don is a senior developer advocate with years of experience as an influential Microsoft startup evangelist (like Guy Kawasaki did for Apple, and Scoble …

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2013 is My Year of Learning – What Have I Learned This Week?

I decided to make “Learning”, my top new year’s resolution for 2013. Because things can get a bit hectic at work and life sometimes, we don’t always register what we learn on a daily basis. This is an attempt to capture my lessons from the past week.

Startups Start Local But Go Global. Is Europe Included?

Last week I had the pleasure of speaking at the Cities Summit Tel Aviv, in a session moderated by Mr Yossi Vardi. The topic was the “Innovative code” of cities. My talk focused on London and its ability to become a startup center in Europe. In a nutshell, London has all the components it needs to succeed.

Doing something I love

I’ve been fortunate to start a new role at Google as the Head of Campus, a unique co-working and event space, that Google set up in East London, in the heart of TechCity (worth repeating the ‘disclaimer’ that all opinions on this blog are my own).

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