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Our approach is built to deliver growth and innovation in a world that’s changing faster.
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Our services deliver through five key building blocks:
Skilled team
Success requires a team which has a blend of digital, entrepreneurial, corporate and consulting skills
This experience delivers digital understanding, strong networks, partnership experience, process expertise, board-level communication, marketing, sales & finance skills
digital
startup
advisory
corporate
To see some of the people we have who make up the team that delivers on this set of skills, click here
An entrepreneurial approach
We believe an entrepreneurial approach is key to growth and innovation in the digital age. This approach, blended with the corporate and consulting expertise, is a powerful recipe for success.
Our entrepreneurial approach includes:
Secure partnerships
“Partnerships gave us access to audiences and talents we could never afford”
Tapping the network
“We use networks ruthlessly to find talent and partnerships”
Unreasonable pace
“People said it was impossible to do it in that timeframe”
Being agile
“Every day we build, release, test and learn with the real customer”
Understanding digital
“You’ve got to understand digital deeply or you’ll just make mistakes”
Not giving up
“We nearly went bust but at the last minute found someone with £200k”
Failing Fast
“If we hadn’t made our first mistake, we’d never have come up with a winner”
The Glasshouse
Through our sister company, the Glasshouse, we have a unique ability to draw on the talents and insights of the world’s leading digital entrepreneurs
The Glasshouse has been providing support, encouragement and inspiration to entrepreneurs across all sectors since 1998
Speaker events
Regular speaker events are organised.
Previous speakers include:
| Michael Birch |
Bebo |
| Daniel Ekk |
Spotify |
| Martin Stiksel |
Last.fm |
| Niklas Zennstrom |
Skype |
| Jimmy Wales |
Wikipedia |
| Craig Newmark |
Craigslist |
| Kristian Segerstrale |
Playfish |
| Gerry Ford |
Caffe Nero |
| Luke Johnson |
Channel 4 |
Dinners
Venturing Unlimited and the Glasshouse jointly host dinners which bring together leading players and executives from large and small companies in the public and private sector to debate a particular theme over dinner, actively encouraging a collision of perspectives and attitudes, often leading to unpredictable outcomes and the formation of unlikely partnerships
What Glasshouse members say
“Glasshouse is a stimulating reminder that profoundly useful and often inspiring social networking is not only the domain of the web, but is alive and well in a slightly older format - face to face.”
Johnny Vulkan - Partner, Anomaly
“I went and saw two amazing speakers you wouldn't find in another relatively intimate setting: Judith Miller and Jimmy Wales.”
Andrew Weinrich - Founder, Six Degrees
Open networks
Insight, partnerships and talent come from different worlds mixing up and working together. We build this into our projects.
Investment knowledge
Securing funding for projects is never straightforward. In a corporate environment, the funding will often be from a robust written business case. We bring expertise in building such cases.
- Internal funding
- Venture capital
- Corporate venture funds
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