Being a Sole Founder is hard
Before we arrived in Chile, and in the first few days after getting here, we were told by previous round entrepreneurs not to expect to get much done in our first month here. But there is a plan, I...
View ArticleNext Startup Chile Applications Start March 19th 2012
The next application round for Startup Chile starts on 19th March 2012 and closes April 3rd. Coincidentally I will be back in the UK to attend NSConference, have some meetings with Tiny Ears...
View ArticleLa Escuela de Español
Last week I took the plunge and signed up for an intensive Spanish language course at Escuela Bellavista. Since I arrived I have been listening to the Michel Thomas Spanish Audiobooks, hoping that this...
View ArticleMobile Phones
At last we have Chilean SIM cards. This took a longer than expected. Here is everything we know about acquiring a Chilean SIM card. You can buy, from the moment you get here, prepaid SIM cards without...
View ArticleEducation Tribe
Here at Startup Chile there is a concept called a Tribe. These tribes are groups formed around general concepts, like Education, Software Technology, Enterprise Software, Finance etc. The idea of the...
View ArticleMy first reimbursement process – An Assessment
I finally received my first reimbursement payment on Tuesday. I’d decided to leave off blogging about this until I’d actually got the money. I had no idea at the time that meant I’d end up writing...
View ArticlePlaying movies with an alpha channel on the iPad
We hit a snag the other day with the development of Tiny Ears. Our strategy to save space on the animation in each storybook was to create lightweight movies to play at the appropriate moment, rather...
View ArticleChile in Summary
This Sunday Ian and I are leaving Santiago to go and spend 3 weeks in Buenos Aires in Argentina. We return to Chile for only 10 days before we leave for 2 months in San Francisco. I just thought I...
View ArticleWhat Next?
You may have noticed that I’ve been rather quiet on the Tiny Ears front recently. There is a reason for this, and here it is. It’s absolutely insane to try and do an incredibly high tech startup, on...
View ArticleDiscovering London with one new thing a week
The last year for me has been a roller coaster ride of discovery and adventure. I have experienced so many new places and done so many new things that I have felt my life, and thereby myself, far...
View ArticleTravel Questions for our Honeymoon
So, we’re planning our honeymoon. We’re hoping to travel from London, where we live, to Istanbul, where Ian proposed, in a one month long jaunt. We’ve currently come up with a loose plan of where we...
View ArticleSocial Media and it’s effect on emotional outlook
This morning, Ian sent me this article from The Economist - Facebook is bad for you. Get a life!. Its timing is interesting as I have just completed a 1 month experiment with my own emotional state by...
View ArticleAnother New Beginning
Wow, it looks like it’s been about 3.5 years since I last wrote a blog post. And, in fact, the last post I wrote was also about a big life event. Maybe that’s what this blog is for, documenting every...
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