The Lighthouse Podcast

The Lighthouse Podcast


Latest Episodes

#24: Designing for the Future: Pattern Libraries
October 20, 2016

Russ and new Lighthouse member Josh chat about Pattern Libraries - what are they? When and why should you use them?

#23: Starting up, shutting down and enabling the next generation of entrepreneur with Tristan Watson of Ignite
September 13, 2016

We've had a couple of Ignite alumni on the show already (Ben from Chew.tv and Gilbert from Leaf.fm to name a couple) - this time we have a director! Tristan Watson was an entrepreneur himself who mentored Ignite at the very beginning, before joining the t

#22: Experimenting Your Way to a Global Music Streaming Community with Gilbert Corrales from Leaf
September 07, 2016

We chatted to Gilbert Corrales, CEO and Co-founder of Leaf, about how a close-knit group of Costa Ricans came to the UK and turned a hypothesis based around music streaming into an app used all over the globe.

#21 Helping Corporates Be More Startup with Howard Rees
July 18, 2016

Moving quickly and innovating gets harder the larger you get, but the rewards for getting it right are great. Howard Rees from CSC came in to chat with us and outline how he goes about getting larger, more mature companies to "think like a startup".

#20 Building a 20,000-strong community in 1 year: The creation and rise of Chew.tv with Ben Bowler
June 30, 2016

Ben Bowler from Chew.tv popped in to chat DJing, grime, startups and building a community with us.

#19: How To Raise, Fail and Find Your True Calling: Mental Health in Startups with James Routledge
May 17, 2016

Tom chats with James Routledge (formally MatchChat - Ignite100 - NowNative - Seedcamp) about his new venture making Mental Health easier to talk about, as well as the journey that got him to where he is now.

#18: Life After Techstars: Headliner’s Accelerator Post Mortem with Stan Mcleod
April 28, 2016

What is a business accelerator? What does it do? Stan's here to answer these questions and more!

#17: Lighthouse Book Review! - "Creativity Inc" by Ed Catmull
April 01, 2016

Dan and Tom have a chat about "Creativity Inc' by Ed Catmull, the president of Pixar. Hear the secret's behind Pixar's success and how the company focuses on creativity across the entire organisation

#16: One Step at a Time: Exploring a New Market With a Lean MVP
March 21, 2016

How Lighthouse's latest side project, Bandit, is attempting to gain traction by starting small and learning directly from its early adopters

#15: Just Enough Design: Our Tips For Creating Effective Prototypes
March 08, 2016

Dan and Russ talk about Lighthouse’s approach to designing prototypes and how we maximise them for learning, not aesthetics

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