In this episode, we speak with Kath Hipwell, CEO of the Association of British Climbing Walls, about her mission to improve safety and accessibility across the UK’s climbing facilities. She shares how a new live incident reporting tool helps climbing centers track real-time data, identify risks earlier, and strengthen safety standards.
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Ben Burch (Allegr) on non-linear careers, real community vs fake “social,” military service, and building mission-led tech without boiling the ocean. Hosted by Rob Woodhead
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Real stories from the people building tech, founders, designers, consultants & creators. Honest convos. No fluff. Just the human side of innovation.
In this podcast, Rob dives into how non-technical founders can tackle the challenges of building a tech startup. He shares actionable strategies for working with developers, grasping key tech concepts, and leveraging the right tools and resources—no coding skills necessary. With his extensive experience in the startup space, Rob offers valuable insights on bridging the divide between business and technology, helping founders transform their ideas into thriving ventures.
In this podcast, Rob shares how we successfully built a world-class development team overseas, breaking down the process we followed and the mindset that guided us. He also dives into the challenges we faced, how we overcame them, and what’s made the remote collaboration so effective.
Let’s start at the beginning and talk about the first step in the tech development process – defining the problem. Rob and I speak to lots of entrepreneurs, often 2 or 3 a week, and all of them have some kind of product in mind. The first thing we like to do with them, to […]
Welcome back to the lab! Following our last article on outsourcing product development, Rob and I spent some time exploring this tricky piece of the startup puzzle, and today we’re going to share our insights in more depth. It’s a topic we have discussed with a variety of people since we started Old.St and we’ve […]
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