Today, Creandum is leading Vue Storefront’s Series A round. To mark the occasion, we interviewed co-founder Patrick Friday about how the business started, why Headless ecommerce matters and what make the company tick. As with many great startups, Vue Storefront was born out of frustration. Working in an ecommerce agency…

TL;DR I’m helping Creandum as (Interim) Head of Marketing for the next year or so. We’ll be upgrading the underlying marketing OS, while helping more people learn about the incredible founders, funds and culture that make it one of the best investors in Europe — and the world. In 2013…

I was reading a piece recently where the journalist emphasises they will need more detail to write up funding announcements. I love journalists, they’re a funny bunch. As someone who has always written, it’s a personality type that I relate to. I also greatly respect it – speaking truth is…

The thing I love about today’s PR + Comms industry is that the homogeneity of yesteryear has been replaced by a whole array of different vivid approaches. It feels like the game used to be: “we are gatekeepers to the media, they won’t listen to you without us.” This is…

There are things we all know we should do, but continue to resist because they seem too hard. But the real limiting factor is changing your perspective to accept that perfection is not required. Instead, it’s more about pushing yourself away from your worst possible iteration. This was the lesson…

A few years ago, I saw a post from someone who had tracked every film they watched that year. I’ve expanded the idea a bit and thought it might be interesting to capture the best of the best here for anyone seeking recommendations. ENJOY. Overall best of the year: I May Destroy You A masterpiece of craft with both…

Natasha Bernal shared a piece in my feed today where the new WeWork CEO tried to re-establish the business’s credible path back to IPO. I thought it was interesting how the headline from the tweet gave such a different impression to the headline of the piece, check them both out…

It’s easy to underestimate security. Especially if you have it. Most anxiety or stress or tension comes from wanting things to be different to the way that they are. This is amplified by complexity, where there are many different relationships and degrees of dependence. It’s easy for work to become…

I’ve worked on most sides of the fence in startup land now — inside a (now Unicorn) from Series A-C, inside VCs, for tech publications — I’ve seen it all. …