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Category: Startups

Leadership Learnings — team alignment

Posted 8th October 202012th May 2021 GavinPosted in business, Culture, Startups

Given the number of times that people/startups ask me for insights about team-building (and the fact I’m building upon them with Icebreaker One under lockdown conditions) […]

Icebreaker One announced at UN Climate Action Summit

Posted 24th September 201929th November 2019 GavinPosted in business, Environment, Finance, Startups

After an 18-month industry consultation, we opened Icebreaker One at the UN Climate Action Summit in New York. –> More information here on the new IcebreakerOne.org […]

John Lewis to trial CupClub

Posted 7th October 20183rd November 2018 GavinPosted in business, Environment, Startups

John Lewis Partnership has announced a collaboration with London startup CupClub, (disclosure: I’m a non-exec director), which will see the subscription service trialled within the […]

Provenance raises $800K for blockchain-based product tracking + appoints Starks as Chair

Posted 12th July 20172nd November 2018 GavinPosted in business, data, Startups

Provenance raises $800K to launch groundbreaking service for transparency in the food and drinks industry British tech startup Provenance, a digital platform enabling brands and […]

The AMEE story (part one)

Posted 10th March 20177th October 2021 GavinPosted in business, climate change, data, energy, Environment, science, Startups, work

In 2005, I was working with climate change charity Global Cool and global hedge fund Man Group (in my spare time) to try and create a global […]

Updated archives

Posted 8th May 201419th November 2018 GavinPosted in business, media, projects, Startups, webcasting, work

Well, it’s been a while since I posted here (Twitter still winning), but here’s a long overdue synopsis of some of the things my first […]

New role at the Open Data Institute

Posted 11th September 201219th November 2018 Gavin1 CommentPosted in business, Culture, data, Government, internet, life, socialchange, Startups, work

During the Olympics Opening Ceremony, the creator of the web tweeted “This is for everyone” to millions of people around the world. Decades since their […]

Level3 acquires Servecast for £22m

Posted 20th July 200719th November 2018 GavinPosted in business, Startups

I sold my streaming media company, Tornado, to Servecast in 2003 in a cash deal.  At the time Tornado had doubled its revenues year-on-year since […]

Global Cool launches

Posted 28th July 200619th November 2018 GavinPosted in business, climate change, Culture, projects, socialchange, Startups

wow. we did it. we built and launched it on time. to the minute, as they walked off stage… It finally (soft/beta) launched with a […]

Consolidated Independent

Posted 1st September 200419th November 2018 GavinPosted in business, internet, music, Startups, web, work

Consolidated Independent (CI) is a world leading digital distribution company. Acting on behalf of the Independent Music sector, it delivers music, audiobooks and video to […]

d::gen launches

Posted 19th December 199919th November 2018 GavinPosted in business, Startups, work

d::gen launched (although it existed inside some other sites from about 1997) – after I left Virgin.net, and just after setting up Tornado Productions. The […]

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