Category: Startups
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Roam (Product Review)

My summary of Roam before using it – I’ve heard people say that Roam is a really good note taking app. It takes me back to when Evernote used to be a really good note taking app and my life was in Evernote … (sighs and carries on). How does Roam explain itself in the…
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Scenery (Product Review)

My summary of Scenery before using it – Listening to an episode of the Greymatter podcast, I heard Maya Frai at Greylock Partners describe Scenery as a product that “is bringing much-needed disruption to video editing tools through a collaborative platform.” I therefore expect a tool that makes it easy to collaborate around video, similar…
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Baseten (Product Review)

My summary of Baseten before using it – Recently, Tuhin Srivastava – Co-Founder at Baseten – talked in a podcast about the Baseten platform. He explained about wanting to help companies operationalise Machine Learning (‘ML’) at scale. Having listened to Srivastava, I’m keen to find out more about Baseten’s value proposition and platform. How does…
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Pragma (Product Review)

My summary of Pragma before using it? I’ve heard that Pragma is a platform used by developers to create games. I can imagine that Pragma supports makers of a wide variety of games. How does Pragma explain itself in the first minute? “Build and scale games faster, simpler, and more reliably” is how Pragma explains…
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“The IPO Playbook” (Book Review)

Steve Cakebread is a CFO with a lot of experience in leading companies to Initial Public Offering (IPO). In his earlier career Cakebread worked at Autodesk, Silicon Graphics and Hewlett-Packard, after which he was involved in three successful IPOs, at Salesforce, Pandora and Yext respectively. In “The IPO Playbook” Cakebread shares his lessons learned and…
