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Harvey: a case study of the Human Moat in AI product development strategy
The noise and controversy around AI risks and safety continues in full-flow, but there is also a nuanced shift from a shiny new... Read More
The conversational leadership style of Stuart Machin: takeaways for startup founders.
Stuart Machin is the CEO of Marks and Spencer. At sixteen, he was in his first retail job, a Saturday shift at Sainsbury’s... Read More
Founder mindset: Use AI as an assistant, not the author of your startup strategy.
Amongst the recent headline grabbing hullabaloos about AI, there was an outpouring of academic angst. Twenty five Fields Medal winners (the Nobel prize... Read More
An elegy for Summer and post-holiday return
Well it’s over. I’ve packed away the folding beach deckchairs, the garden furniture is in the shed, and the parasol on the garage... Read More
Entrepreneurial learnings from Elzéard Bouffier, the man who planted trees.
Jean Giono was one of C20th France’s most distinctive literary voices. Born and raised in Provence, his intimate relationship with the southern French... Read More
Hard-nosed takeaways for founders seeking funding:AI is a capability not a business model
When the AWS credits run out, every tech founder eventually meets their reckoning. For Sean, co-founder and CEO of Towneley.ai, that reckoning didn’t... Read More
What’s are the traits that make you a great startup leader?
From the initial conflict in 2014 to the full-scale invasion in 2022, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has shown himself to be a charismatic... Read More
How startup Towneley.ai adopts AI tools to optimise early sales efforts.
For decades, tech startups have fallen victim to a dangerous myth: that sales strategies should help customers buy software. Burnley based startup TowneleyAI... Read More
Demis Hassabis and The Infinity Machine.
I’ve finally finished reading and reflecting upon The Infinity Machine: DeepMind, and the Quest for Superintelligence by Sebastian Mallaby. It’s well worth reading... Read More
Anthropic keeps ethics top of the AI agenda
The advancement of AI into all aspects of our lives is accelerating, throwing up a wide variety of issues – from actors demanding... Read More