(A bit of a reminder for myself) From Guy Kawasaki – full original list here. Experts are clueless. Customers cannot tell you what they need. Jump to the next curve. The biggest challenges beget best work. Design counts. You can’t go wrong with big graphics and big fonts. Changing your mind is a sign of [...]
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Running a virtual lean machine
As Software Testing Club has grown we’ve opted to work as a mean, lean, virtual machine. How do we do this? Google for email, RSS, document collaboration Yammer for conversations. Highrise for a CRM FreeAgent for accounts Dropbox for documents Mailchimp for email marketing WordPress for making websites Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Google+ for Social [...]
Using big meaningless words
How often do you go to a website or read about an organisation that makes claims like: we are the first… we are the largest… the most popular… the fastest growing… Don’t let these types of words fool you. It doesn’t mean they are any good. And actually in many cases they can mean a [...]
Funding Thunder Lizard Entrepreneurs
I enjoyed watching this video. Worth checking out the other videos from Standford’s ecorner. About the video Stanford Engineering lecturer and FLOODGATE partner Ann Miura-Ko offers insight into the democratization of innovation in the Internet age, and its affect on investment cycles. Additionally, Miura-Ko speaks candidly about the need to test business models, her firm’s [...]
The Testing Planet – Issue 5
The 5th Edition of The Testing Planet is out. Currently available to print, ebook, Kindle paid subscribers. Free version coming out at the end of the month. Go get it before the rest of em!
StartUp Britain
StartUp Britain has got off to a bit of a bad start. And it’s understandable. It probably wouldn’t have registered on anyone’s radar. However, as it was launched with the promotional (not financial) backing of the government, it got more attention than it perhaps deserved. StartUp Britain is pretty much a link farm at the [...]
Passionate Business Model
Watch this to see someone doing awesome stuff. When watching it many people think or say they are going to give up Coke/Pepsi. It would be nice if it was true. It would also be nice if people could think about other corporations dominating our lives and how they will probably only go away if [...]
The Impossible Hampster
I love what the nec (new economics foundation) produces. Right up my street. I hate it when the government is always talking about growth, seems like I’m not the only one.
Work now compared to Middle Ages
Victorian economists calculated that the average English peasant in 1485 needed to work fifteen weeks a year to earn enough money they needed to survive for the year. In 1564, it was forty weeks. Now of course, it is questionable whether we can afford a reasonable life at all without two salaries all year round. [...]
An offer for Sussex Interns
My wee company schux has signed up for the Sussex Internships. If you are interested in what we do. Want to get a feel for the industry. Fancy a chat or a cuppa. Meet other people within the industry… Then here is an offer: from January onwards come to and cowork and Lewes Werks for [...]
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I'm Rosie Sherry. I currently spend my time working on building up community and products for the software testing industry. This includes running the Software Testing Club, a community of 11,000 registered software testers. Producing The Testing Planet, bring awesome-ness content to software testers. And The Ministry of Testing - events and learning opportunities.
I love the web and all the opportunities it brings.
Keywords that describe me: (lean) startups, communities, social web, business strategy, collaboration, coworking and software testing.
I'm married with 3 young kids. One of my biggest drivers is to achieve a work life balance for my family. This isn't easy.
