Starting-up, or even just working in a startup, can be a financial risk which means some of the big life goals—buying a house, having kids, retiring—are even harder to achieve.

That’s why Caroline Hughe’s fintech platform, Lifetise, is gaining so much traction. Lifetise provides something we could all do with: figuring out how to afford the lives we want to lead.

And it’s not as if Coron19 isn’t making it hard enough to earn money and plan for the future. That said, this is a great time to upskill, develop that side hustle and build more robust and sustainable businesses.

If you'd like to find out more about how to validate your business ideas, please email [email protected] for a chat or visit www.tectoniclondon.com (http://www.tectoniclondon.com/) .

In this episode, we discuss how a diagram that Dan created to help businesses find the sweet spot they should be in. In brief, are you delivering what you want to deliver, what you can afford to deliver, what your customers want and what they need?

We delve into how this affects your business needs and your customers' behaviour. 

As usual, if you'd like to find out more, don't hesitate to contact us at [email protected] or find us on social media at @tectoniclondon.

You can also visit the website: www.tectoniclondon.com.

Stay safe out there.

Entrepreneurship is never easy. It often seems as though it's one challenge after another. But when the world around you is facing challenges, it can be felt doubly hard by founders.

This week we have a frank and open discussion about running a business in this current Covid-19 climate.

If you'd like to reach out and have any more chats about what was discussed, please email [email protected] or visit www.tectoniclondon.com (http://www.tectoniclondon.com/) .

In the midst of Covid-19, all businesses are facing uncertainty. With so many daily unknowns it's difficult to know how to conduct yourself as a rational human, let alone as a functioning business!

We sat down and took stock of the current climate with Andy Davis - investor at Atomico, a VC firm that funds tech founders at Series A and beyond.

There are so many questions on founders' minds right now, such as, How am I going to raise funds? We don't have all the answers, but what we do know is that we need to encourage conversation, community and compassion in this confusing time.

If you'd like to find out more about how to validate your business ideas, please email [email protected] for a chat or visit www.tectoniclondon.com (http://www.tectoniclondon.com/) .

Listen in as the co-founders of Tectonic talk about why founders and businesses should validate their ideas. We discuss this through the lens of technology, your customers' landscape and from our own personal point of view as entrepreneurs ourselves.

Tectonic is a business consultancy that helps startups, founders and enterprises validate their assumptions with their target customer. 

If you'd like to find out more about how to validate your business ideas, please email [email protected] for a chat or visit www.tectoniclondon.com.

Courtney Mae-Briggs is the star of the multi-award-winning stage show Hamilton.

We sensed that the talent, commitment, luck—whatever you want to call it —needed to succeed in the hyper-competitive space of The Arts, might be similar to making it in the startup world.

And if we’re right, we can all find inspiration from different industries and not be so siloed in our own little “worlds”. 

Basically, what we’re asking is, are we all entrepreneurs, no matter what industry or role we’re in?

Lizzie Shupak is a CEO, Digital Innovator, Mum, Abbey Road Studio Mentor and Cambridge Grad. 

She’s got an amazing amount of experience and stories. But how does she balance it all?

We all struggle enough with what we’ve got on our plates. Like trying to build that side hustle that’s going to change the world, whilst having richer relationships, and keeping up with ALL the Netflix.

Let's find out how Lizzie gets the work-life balance right.

What’s your idea of the ideal workspace? 

Clemence Billoud, oversees Second Home, a collection of super-cool workspaces spanning London, Lisbon and LA. Second Home endorse the “creative friction” that occurs when diverse startups rub shoulders. 

Clemence tells Dan and Nana about her personal journey from relief projects in Haiti, to nurturing the community at Second Home, via splurges into improvised comedy.

Ill mental health costs the UK more than £94bn every year, equating to something like £3,000 per employee of the age to work.

Away from the financial consequences, the truth is bleaker still. People are unhappy: overworked, undervalued and stressed out.

But things are changing. Sanctus is a startup on a mission to change the perception of mental health. They put professional coaches in businesses to do something novel: talk to staff members on a 1-2-1 basis, in complete privacy, without any judgement or disclosure to their bosses or peers. 

Vic Lloyd is Sanctus’ first employee and Operations Manager. As advocates of discussions on mental health, Vic, Dan and Nana talk frankly about what affects them and how they overcome challenges to succeed in the hectic startup world.

Ever find yourself nodding along to conversations about blockchain and not really knowing what it’s all about?

That’s because blockchain is the most misunderstood development in tech. Advocates say it’s going to renew democracy and create a safer internet. While naysayers argue that it’s slow, corruptible and over-hyped.

Rhian Lewis is an expert developer and an eloquent speaker on all things blockchain. 

She’s also the co-host of London Women in Bitcoin group and co-founder of the popular countmycrypto.com website. 

If you need a concise introduction into blockchain, this is for you.