Hi, I’m Alicia!
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About me
Entrepreneur, passionate speaker, empathetic advisor.
Explore some of the things I’ve built and achieved. Listen, read and watch some of my interviews and coverage. And get in touch if you’d like me to help you with your business or speak at your event.
Ruminations
Thoughts, experiences, ideas and reflections
A blog documenting the trials and tribulations of starting and running a tech startup, of living in these exciting but challenging times, and of learning and becoming – bit by bit – the best I can be.
Recent ruminations
The beliefs that have held me back
I’ve had a lot of time to think lately. Being on the road for weeks at a time, driving long distances with no one but my beloved but possibly autistic puppy, and with a mission
Cruising to Bilbao… or Phase 2 of my Journey
Fresh with the learnings from my first 10 days in Avallon, I set-off on Phase 2 of my nomadic odyssey. This time, rather than drive to France via the Euro Tunnel, I discovered it was
10 days in Avallon: 7 things I learnt
I had a mission. A bold one. It was to go away to a beautiful rural setting, and find focus and flow so that I could achieve a number of deep work tasks. I intended
Recent travel posts
Why I love the sea
This post was written in my journal, while sitting on a bench overlooking the Pacific, during a week-long workshop on Offering to the Divine at Esalen (I wrote about the overall experience here). This rumination
Fun in the sun at FUNconference
One of the most useful and special aspects of being a Founder - especially in London - is the tight community that has sprung up of other like-minded souls going through the same
Easter weekend in the country
There are few things I hate more than a long weekend stuck in London. Especially a long long weekend like Easter. 4 days... it is the perfect length of time to escape somewhere exotic, except
Recent shopping posts
My startup journal from the very beginning…
October 2007
Trusting people
How do you know who to trust? Being a naturally trusting person (some may say naive), I tend to trust everyone. "Surely they just
I got funding!
One of my most important tasks on my return to London was to try and secure speedy funding. I didn't have much money left,
November 2007
Miso soup and keyboards don’t mix
A disaster has befallen Skimbit headquarters. My miso soup at lunch took a sudden tumble over my keyboard, resulting in the instant death of
December 2007
First employee
Running a business is hard enough to do, and doing it on your own is unfathomably difficult. I had always intended to hire a
Presenting at Mashup Demo
I was lucky to be involved in Mashup Demo yesterday. Despite its catastrophic lack of internet access (the irony of running an internet application
We have been ‘techcrunched’!
It’s a happy day today… to be discussed on someone else’s blog is one thing… but to be discussed on TechCrunch is pretty exciting