Women’s History Month
March 15, 2023 by Kirk Baillie
Throughout March we are sharing some of the brightest and best talks from BoS to celebrate the wonderful women we have welcomed on stage.
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Silicon Valley Bank – Imagine It Was Just a Dream
March 13, 2023 by Mark Littlewood
Wake Up. And Breathe…
Silicon Valley Bank – Imagine It Was Just a Dream
The last few days have been some of the most traumatic ever for many in the SaaS and software ecosystem. The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), would undoubtedly been a near extinction event for growth stage software companies across the world. They had become a very significant player in the global tech banking ecosystem and the potential disaster of a very large proportion of software companies not being able to access their funds, whether from customer revenue, equity or debt funding would not only have created chaos, it could well have precipitated a much wider global run on banks.
Fortunately, entrepreneurs, investors, SVB staff, industry bodies and let’s not forget, the US and UK governments, have been fast to move to ensure in different ways that those that banked with SVB are able to access their funds and continue normal operations. Of course, there will challenges to come, but the prospect of so many companies becoming insolvent has been averted.
This was probably the first social media bank run in history and it was not a pretty sight. From the run on the bank being accelerated by talk on social media, the instant experts who knew nothing, the hot takes, the pile ons from anyone who had a point to prove or a score to settle, social media has made the situation much worse. The last few days have been a horrible time to be an entrepreneur, or to work in a tech company, without the constant cacophony of uninformed opinion.
Thankfully, in the US and UK at least, there is some clarity now. Other countries are likely following their leads. We hope for the sake of the amazing people in this industry who work hard everyday to create jobs and do great things, that will happen very quickly.
What We Do Now
Imagine being a company founder who had left for a long weekend hike off-grid on Wednesday with no access to the internet to return early Monday morning, refreshed, revived and revved up for the week ahead. It turns out that being away for that time meant they missed all the drama.
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Women’s History Month
March 13, 2023 by Kirk Baillie
Throughout March we are sharing some of the brightest and best talks from BoS to celebrate the wonderful women we have welcomed on stage.
Dame Stephanie Shirley
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Women’s History Month
March 10, 2023 by Kirk Baillie
Throughout March we are sharing some of the brightest and best talks from BoS to celebrate the wonderful women we have welcomed on stage.
Nandini Jammi
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Women’s History Month
March 8, 2023 by Kirk Baillie
Throughout March we are sharing some of the brightest and best talks from BoS to celebrate the wonderful women we have welcomed on stage.
Tessa Clarke
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Tessa Clarke’s Big Idea and How it Came to Life. TED Talk. BoS Talk.
March 7, 2023 by Mark Littlewood
TED Talk
Tessa Clarke did a TED Talk – the surprising climate benefits of sharing your stuff.
Tessa’s TED Talk is short, eyeopening and suggests, backed by facts, that sharing things more could be part of the solution to climate change.
BoS Talk
Before she was TED famous, Tessa Clarke, CEO and founder of OLIO the foodwaste app, spoke at BoS Europe 2022. We think the story behind the company she and her co-founder created is remarkable without the potential for having an impact on the world.
She discussed how she started with a worthy goal – to make the world more sustainable – and has built a successful, sustainable and rapidly growing business.
OLIO is different.
- OLIO is fully remote.
- OLIO is Fifth on the list of ‘top 100 businesses to work for in 2021’.
- Over 50% of OLIO’s staff are women and over 50% of staff are neurodivergent.
- OLIO has closed over $50million funding from top VCs including Accel.
Watch both talks below and see how OLIO has taken a big idea and made it a business. They’re worth your time.
TED Talk. The Big Idea.
Bringing the Big Idea to Life
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Women’s History Month
March 6, 2023 by Kirk Baillie
Throughout March we are sharing some of the brightest and best talks from BoS to celebrate the wonderful women we have welcomed on stage (often after they’ve been in the audience first).
Kathy Sierra
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Women’s History Month
March 2, 2023 by Kirk Baillie
Women’s History Month is one of the most important celebrations in the equality calendar. The event recognises the achievements of female academics, adventurers, and activists who have defined society as we know it but are regularly left out of the important and the everyday discussions. It is recognised by businesses, organisations, and Government bodies across the globe, leading to increased awareness of gender inequalities.
The Tech and SaaS world is crying out for a more diversity but is speckled with some amazing and inspiring women – some of which we’ve been lucky to have speak at BoS. Throughout March we are going to be sharing some of the brightest and best talks from BoS to celebrate the wonderful women we have welcomed on stage (often after they’ve been in the audience first).
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BoS Europe Schedule
March 1, 2023 by Kirk Baillie
We know you’ve been waiting patiently to find out the full line up and schedule for the upcoming Europe Conference in Cambirdge UK on 27-28 March 2023.
We are fine tuning the finer details but here it is:
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Accommodation in Cambridge
February 20, 2023 by Kirk Baillie
Whenever and wherever you are travelling, it’s good to get some local knowledge of the best places to stay.
As Cambridge UK is the hometown of BoS, we are perfectly positioned to give you a low down of the best and highest regarded hotels in the city.
Obviously we recommend that you book the onsite accommodation for the Europe Conference at Churchill College, but if prefer to get away to something a little more luxurious, or if you’re in Cambridge not during conference ties, here are some great options for staying in the city in 2023.
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Avalara x BoS Europe
February 17, 2023 by Kirk Baillie
Much like BoS, Avalara helps businesses of all sizes.
Their comprehensive, automated, cloud-based solutions are fast, accurate, and easy to use and their Compliance Cloud™ platform helps customers manage complicated and burdensome tax compliance tasks imposed by state, local, and other taxing authorities throughout the world. Avalara offers more than 500 pre-built connectors into leading accounting, ERP, ecommerce and other business applications and process billions of indirect tax transactions, file hundreds of thousands of tax compliance documents and tax returns every year.
This year, they are coming to BoS to find out how they can help you and the rest of the BoS community automate compliance needs.
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Three takeaways from our Online Product Symposium.
February 13, 2023 by Mark Littlewood
Following our Product Symposium on Wednesday 8 Feb, Brad Bell at Point of Rental shared some notes from the sessions. With permission – and thanks – he’s said we can share them with the world alongside some of the other key takeaways from the day.
Get ready for matrixes, silences, and free tools.
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Quiet Light x BoS 2023
January 19, 2023 by Kirk Baillie
Late in 2006 Mark Daoust, received a call from a good friend and fellow entrepreneur who was considering selling his 8-year-old web hosting website. Just 10 months prior Mark had sold his own profitable website and was looking for a new direction. Quiet Light was founded with this phone call.
Fast forward a few years and Quiet Light is now a leading player in the business of selling and buying profitable online businesses and have sold over 600 online businesses with over $300,000,000 in total transaction value. In 2022 they sold over 100 companies.
Even though they’re recognized as one of the most successful M&A advisors in the marketplace, Quiet Light still take an attitude of continual improvement to their processes. This is where BoS and Quiet Light make magic.
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Alex Ostwerwalder – Apprentice CEO
January 12, 2023 by Mark Littlewood
Alex Osterwalder is probably best known as the creator of the Business Model Canvas and is undoubtably one of the world’s leading thinkers, experts and practitioners on business strategy and innovation. You might not think of him as an apprentice CEO.
One of the defining characteristics of the most successful entrepreneurs is their commitment to learning and growth and Alex is no exception.
In this online session, Alex spoke about his journey from well known author and speaker to what he describes as being a ‘real’ entrepreneur over the past 10 years.
He discussed what he feels are the most important aspects of his leadership journey and the five things he consider most important in his path to becoming the leader of a self-funded, fully remote, software company employing over 50 people. He discussed:
- Coaching
- Emotional Literacy
- Three Books That Shaped Alex Osterwalder’s Approach to Leadership
- Organisation Structure
- Explore and Exploit – OKRs vs AKIs
We’re sharing some notes below but if you want to watch the talk when it is published, you need to get on the BoS newsletter and you will be the first to know.
Meanwhile, you can watch Alex Osterwalder’s talks from previous BoS Conferences.
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Foote, Boyle, Spiek & Singer
January 12, 2023 by Kirk Baillie
Sounds like a witch’s brew but is in fact our first selection of Europe speakers for 2023!
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Mystic Mark’s 2023 Predictions
December 15, 2022 by Mark Littlewood
Back in 2019 I was asked for a couple of predictions for 2020. Obviously no one seen Covid coming and hitting as hard as it did, but I did have a feeling that remote working would be further embraced and become much more normal.
To Recap:
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Write a SaaS Newsletter With AI
December 15, 2022 by Mark Littlewood
We’ve been playing around with AI and we asked ChatGPT to, ‘Write a SaaS Newsletter With AI’. I predict 2023 will be the year AI becomes mainstream.
At first glance, it was pretty impressive, typing away to produce this…
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Where are we all going?
December 5, 2022 by Kirk Baillie
Since Elon Musk’s (shudders at the mention of his name) $44bn takeover of Twitter, and the abhorrent way he has fired and cleared out the employees and wiped billions of value off the platform, everyone has been looking for the new ship to jump on where we can share cat gifs, sassy comments, important news, views, and find out what other people are up to.
So tell us: What you think the ‘new Twitter’ will be:
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Mark’s look back at 2022
December 5, 2022 by Mark Littlewood
At the beginning of 2022, having come out of a difficult 2021. We were really excited about 2022 and we’d also found that the online conferences that we’ve been running had really struck a chord with people. Many people who attended the online conferences found that they were getting better networking and better conversations than they were in the in person events.
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