Community Posts

Lean Startup is full of competing thought-leaders and consultants, so I wrote this post to help you make sense of it all.

Note: I’m heading to Kenya next month to teach promising engineers how to make a startup out of their technology. I need your help to meet local business ro...

Ten months ago, I shared an idea – what if, as the Internet arrives in developing economies around the world, we could empower local people to be tech founde...

Originally posted at entrepreneur.bg, and based on my talk at Eleven’s Demo Day.

Startup capitals are an out-dated concept.

When I started Leancamp in London in 2009, I had this problem.

Bulgarian startups, like those in many other European countries, continually face a problem: growing beyond our local markets.

The accelerator business is moving fast, and everyone is figuring it out as we go. Accelerators are quickly becoming more diverse, the contexts accelerators ...

I’ve worked with 20 accelerators over the last year and I’ve noticed two approaches I admire, Just Do It and Challenge The Model. Just Do It, then Iterate (J...

We often don’t think of small towns as advantageous for starting up. Big startup cities offer peer support, team-building and investment opportunities.

There’s an opportunity emerging that I’m compelled to explore, and I’ve written about it on Medium.

The accelerator world is diffusing into niches, led by programme directors who challenge the conventional accelerator business model. One that’s really pushi...

Originally posted on entrepreneur.bg in Bulgarian.

* This is a significantly more tongue-in-cheek rewrite of this post, after I read The Founders Fund Manifesto which seems to have kicked off all this ballyho...

I’ve been swimming drowning in buzzwords for a while, being into startups and all.

Too many great ideas get buried by their own jargon.

A lot of would-be founders with ideas and passion allow themselves to be paralysed, waiting for a tech co-founder. Yet, seasoned tech founders know the harde...

As part of our support program for up-and-coming Leancamp organisers, we’ll be sharing our lessons learned from past events. Leancamp, like most startups and...

With the launch of Google Campus in London, I think there’s a chance to observe and potentially take away practical, repeatable lessons for nurturing startup...

Since the first Leancamp, it’s been clear it built community.  The problem has been that it is more expensive than a Barcamp, so the sponsorship model has be...

Community pays off in a structured ways, if you know how to invest and what can be gained.

Since the beginning of Leancamp, I’ve been looking for a way to make the unconference model financially-independent – with the goal of synthesizing its commu...

There’s a conversation unfolding about the future of Lean Startup on RoundTables, andPatrick Vlaskovits pointed out: Lean Startup needs to avoid becoming dog...

If you’ve ever pitched an investor, you know they love trends and growth markets. The cliched question, “is this a billion dollar business?” has merit.You wa...

Great weekend watching, not just for content businesses or creative types. Feels a bit like a modern version of The Manual by the KLF. It also got me thinki...

[caption id=”” align=”aligncenter” width=”367” caption=”SaintSal in Barcelona - Homage to Desigual!”] UPDATE: The Leancamp Barcelona waiting list has opened...

If you missed the first London meetup, it was a fast-paced discussion covering a lot of topics, including social enterprise and getting started. I cover and ...

I had a clear purpose at the Reboot Britain conference.  I’ve recently started collaborating with Dave Woods & Dan Thompson, founders of Your Party, and ...