The Lighthouse Podcast

Hear how Mespo are giving customers a smart, non-biased way to save money on their monthly bills using cutting edge technology.

Heidi Pun tells us about her tried and tested approach to product development and how early stage entrepreneurs can bring ideas to market quickly and effectively with little to no technical skill

Tom talks to Simon about his experience of starting a company out of university, going through an accelerator and taking an idea from conception to revenue inside a week.

One of our founders (Tom) recently got back from travelling in India. You may have heard about the situation with their currency at the moment - Tom got a great insight while there. This episode he chats to Simon about it - the issues it causes, possible solutions, as well as a brief discussion about why one of the world's largest (by population) countries made such an unprecedented move in the fi...

Anthony joins Tom for a recap of the talk he gave at our recent event on "Porter's Five Forces". After covering what each force is and how it may affect your business, they do a quick analysis of well-known startup Deliveroo!

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

We've had a couple of Ignite alumni on the show already (Ben from Chew.tv and Gilbert from Leaf.fm to name two) - this time we have a director! Tristan Watson was an entrepreneur himself who mentored Ignite at the very beginning, before joining the team full-time. In this episode he tells us about success and failure; what they look and feel like as well as what sets a team up for each! We talk ab...

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. Among other things we discussed: Why you shouldn't worry about user churn How Leaf adopted a test-driven approach to developing new features How a simple chat box took on a life of its own!

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".

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

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.

What is a business accelerator? What does it do? Could one help you and your startup? Stan's been through one of the best, and he tells Dan all about his experience, sharing his thoughts on general accelerators and who they might help.

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

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

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

Stan talks about his startup journey, creating two business in five years which took them from humble beginnings to graduating Techstars in 2015

Dan and Tom talk about how to chat to customers and get awesome feedback on your product. What should you be asking? Where can you find your users and much more...

We chatted with Rozel Studio founder Howard Gray about how to evaluate your startup ideas and choose which are the best ones to test and launch

What are the steps needed to get your startup idea out of your head and into the real world? Follow these three simple steps to start engaging with your audience and learning about your product without the need for any technical knowledge More episodes and articles on the Lighthouse London blog http://wearelighthouse.com/blog/

We all sat around and talked about our high and lowlights of 2015 as well as our wishes for 2016. There's also a tense vote for the internal results of the Best Christmas Card competition.

Russ chats to Tom about Coin, a side project he set up in early 2015. He discusses where it's at now, where it might go and what problems it needs to overcome in the future.

As part of our hack day trip to Bath we got round a table and talked about the recent re-design of the Lighthouse website. There were laughs, there were tears, there was authentic rural background noise.

How do we use these simple tools for great learning in design and build projects? Where do wireframes end and prototypes start? We're not sure we have all the answers but we gives it our best shot!

Kick off meetings, are they the best meetings? Everyone’s so positive and excited. Russ and Dan immerse themselves in these most cherished moments in the client/agency relationship, the bit before anything’s gone wrong. Why are they important? What should be covered in one? Would a game of Twister work?

And you may ask yourself, how did I get here? Russ & Tom learnt design over 10 years apart, in this week's podcast they discuss how they started their careers and how things done changed. Hear Tom grapple with how long ago it all was and raise an eyebrow at the role Russ' printer played. Most of all, enjoy!