Chris Jamieson's Blog

2014-09-23

Alice Bentinck (of EF fame) wrote a great article recently about why you need a product mindset when building a startup, especially in the early days...

2014-09-17

When I was a student at UCL, I was lucky enough to be taught one of my courses by the constitutional expert Robert Hazell. Today, on the eve of the Scottish...

2014-09-15

Last week I posted a blog post about a service I’m considering building to help people connect with their offline loved ones (e.g. grandparents). The...

2014-09-09

Social media is bringing many people closer together, but it has left some generations behind. That’s sad. I love sharing my moments and stories with...

2014-08-17

Recently I read an interesting write-up by Tyler Tringas, the founder of Storemapper about the progress of his simple product to help people add a store...

2014-03-10

Ideas are wonderful things. They can burn brightly in the imagination, keep you awake at night and cause you to dream big. Ideas are also cheap. In...

2014-02-12

While I was living in the beautiful city of Seville in Spain, I decided to fulfil an ambition I had held for some time: to complete a marathon. It was...

2014-02-11

If you are young and intelligent, the world is at your feet. But you also stand at a crossroads. Some of the decisions you make now, right now, will impact...

2014-02-09

On BBC Radio 4 this morning, some of the comments made by Adam Gopnik on “A Point of View” program piqued my attention. He was talking about...

2014-02-08

Recently I learned (the hard way) how important it is to do due diligence on your co-founder. This post is an attempt to give some pointers on how to...