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Honorary Graduate Address — Nick St...
Speech delivered to 266 graduating engineers from The University of the West of England, Bristol. Pi...
Jul 22, 2026
Engine Shed Is Closing. Who Gets Le...
Credit: The brilliant Jon CraigOn 2 July, a small group of the people who helped build Bristol’s inn...
Jul 07, 2026
The Ice Cream Van Test: Strategy vs...
There’s an analogy I’ve used with entrepreneurs many times: when teaching a child how to ride a bike...
Apr 04, 2026
Looking back on Engine Shed
The other week I was with UKSPA friends and colleagues, many of whom I have known since before Engin...
Mar 16, 2026
The Engine Shed Journey: How it sta...
Whilst we had been thinking for a while about ideas for a multi-disciplinary, multi-partner, scaled-...
Mar 08, 2026
The Entrepreneur’s Journey
This chapter follows the entrepreneur’s journey from initial idea to commercial reality, examining h...
Dec 07, 2025
2023: A year of anniversaries
Last Saturday, 35 founders, employees and partners of Motion Media Technology got together to mark t...
Nov 13, 2023
The Perilous Shift: From Octopus to...
The Perilous Shift: From Octopus to Japanese Knotweed — The Danger of Startup Founders Becoming Suff...
Jun 23, 2023
My Learning Workout
Last month I had the privilege of joining alumni and some of the current cohort, of the Common Purpo...
Nov 07, 2022
Calibrating one’s leadership capabi...
As I sit on a flight to Ghana, I’m reflecting on my first visit to the beautiful place and people th...
Nov 14, 2021