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Get obsessed and stay obsessed…after 30

(written to the Surfing playlist on Spotify)
For someone who can’t swim, surfing is not an obvious sport of choice.  A spectacular noisedive from a Malibu wave carried me like a puppet to the beach where it beat my knee stupid against the rocks. Oh how I cried. Not from the pain, but because I didn’t [...]

How to pitch to Huddle – part 1

I’m having a frickin’ ball. Huddle’s growing as fast as pizza dough. It’s a Polish idiom, perhaps not as good as ‘not my monkeys, not my circus’, but I still like it. Yay, hurray etc.
We’re assembling our super-duper marketing team.  Get in! If you think you can handle working with @nopstar and moi, drop us [...]

Gary Vee to the rescue

The following events took place yesterday:

I have lost my aunt’s £5,000. I’m such a great niece, I am.
Gary Vaynerchuk’s Crush It! arrived from Amazon
So did a Mira showerhead minus a hose washer = water everywhere
I finally finished drafting three marketing jobs descriptions for Huddle

Overall, it could’ve been worse. I [...]

Why I am going naked

Hiatus over. All this palaver about why women should keep their clothes on made me come out of my blogging retirement. Here are my 10 reasons for doing the Nude London Tech Calendar.

This is probably the best I will ever look. I have been denying myself carbs for  almost a [...]

Bring back Das Mutterrecht!

I’m all for Kant’s categorical imperative , but this is taking the biscuit.

First-time author Megan Basham who produced ‘how to kill your financial independence for women’ is doing PR-rounds in the UK.

Amazon calls it: ‘a guide offering an alternative for women who do not want to join the corporate rat race explains how women can [...]

Do you trust Paul Walsh?

Having been out all day in meetings today, I almost missed the ‘You’re a fuckwit. No, you’re a fuckwit’ palaver/exchange between @paulwalsh and @2it. I refer you to the Twitter Search for a full transcript.
Can you damage someone’s reputation over Twitter? I guess if you have a few thousands followers, you can have a pretty [...]

Does your mother know?

I’ve just got back from a weekend visiting my parents. It went something like this:

Mum: So who do you do PR for these days?
Dad: She doesn’t work for a PR agency any more. She does marketing now.
Mum: No? Huddle doesn’t do PR? What does it do?
Dad: It’s an online system for knowledge management.
Mum: Oh really? [...]

No more chocolate, please

I was raised in a society where bribery had been a common occurrence since WWII. But I didn’t think you’d fall for it. Just last Friday I received a box of La Maison du Chocolat from Julian of Mobyko in a not-so-covert attempt to get his company on the @huddlesuz top 10 start-ups. I am [...]

Wish I had Sarah Lacy’s balls

I love Kathy Sierra, but there’s a new hero in town.

A friend prevented me today from publishing what I thought was a clever (and funny) post, written in response to someone who achieved the unachievable – made me angry. Sarah Lacy is a kind of person who would’ve turned to my friend and said: [...]

Ladies’ night

My little idea of bringing a few ladies involved in marcomms at start-ups is nicely coming together. We have Zubka, LinkedIn and Trampoline Systems line-up. Anyone else fancies joining for a few cocktails and a chat?