Week three looked surprisingly clear in the calendar, a welcome oasis after the Mentor Madness of week two. Ha! Appearances can be deceiving and it didn't quite work out that way. We had a little more time to crack on with our own agenda - but the diary soon filled with more meetings with great people.
ABOVE: The Techstars clock keeps ticking, and still creates a tingle in the spine each time I walk past it, especially on a Monday morning!
ABOVE: Dom, Ben and I like to get in early before the office gets too busy. Warner Yard is a great working environment but it is quite noisy and intense at times, so it's nice to find a little quiet thought time at the beginning of the day. I need some headphones!
ABOVE: On Tuesday, Dom very excitedly opened a package that he had ordered. The picture I took and posted in the previous blog post. This now sits at the end of our desks (I am glad to have been the photographer and not featured!).
ABOVE: Every day the whiteboard next to the clock lists what's on and an inspirational quote from Tak and Mark.
Our deep dive this week featured Jens Lapinski who is Jon Bradford's counterpart in Berlin. He is massively bright and very experienced. It's like someone looking at your business with x-ray glasses. He gave us some good challenge which was really helpful. We are really focusing in on who our customer is.
ABOVE: On Thursday night, we played spin-the-bottle (not that kind!) where one unfortunate soul gets to stand up and explain another team's business. This was very amusing but I think we all managed to do a reasonable job of pitching each other's companies. Each week we state our high's, lows and what we are asking of the other teams. There is a real feeling that we are all in it together.
ABOVE: Our Founder's Stories this week was Yonatan Raz-Fridman of Kano Computing. It's a computer that anyone can make for under £100. It was a fantastic story and a brilliant product. Checkout their award winning website.
Friday whizzed by as we started work on our new website (it feels like version 43,264!).
Time to go home!
ABOVE: It was fantastic to get back for the weekend to my home city, and spend some time with the children and celebrate my birthday with them. Here, my youngest is manning her own stall at the school Christmas fete.
Before long it will soon be time to come run to London again to face another week of mentors (VCs this time), and that dreaded clock!
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