Tom Johnson

Back-to-back with Ben and Tom: Ben Bowler from Chew.tv popped in to chat DJing, grime, startups and building a community with us. Along the way we discuss - How a startup accelerator helped shape the business - How the team manage development and feature requests - Why loud grime music is more important than pleasing the neighbours

In this episode, we chat with James Routledge (formally MatchChat – Ignite100 – NowNative – Seedcamp) about his new venture, Sanctus, and how he is aiming to make Mental Health easier to talk about in the startup world, as well as the journey that got him to where he is now.

We chatted to Stan Mcleod, CEO and Co-founder of Headliner, about his experience of going through Techstars last year. What do accelerators do? Could one help you and your startup? Is it some sort of weird camp? Check it to find out the answers...

The founder of Pixar's recent book discusses his journey from setting up the company to becoming one of the most successful movie studios in the world. Along the way there are lots of insights into how he tried to encourage creativity in every aspect of Pixar's company culture. We read the book and loved it so decided to have a chat about what we both learned.

Don't overdo it! How you should be focusing on a design maximised for customer learning and not trying to make the most beautiful product ever when creating your prototypes. We also cover a few of the little tricks we use to save time but generate great feedback. Also there's some talk about Beyoncé.

So much fun, absolutely love it! Would be nice to be able to write in hits without just playing on the keyboard. I made a tune - http://sampulator.com/mrhaste/big-tings-we-inna

The latest from the Lighthouse podcast about how we use prototypes to get feedback from customers. Includes a shocking revelation from Dan about astounding levels of cheating on geography his homework