Family founders, family culture

It is well recorded that start-up life is a roller coaster ride. Joy and anxiety, confidence and doubt, determination and fear. Are these emotions accentuated when you are going through them with someone you love? Absolutely.

How amazing to achieve goals and get the buzz of winning with your own brother.…

Make That Handshake Work

Making connections and forming relationships take more than happenstance

Howdy is an intelligent networking app that employs artificial intelligence to generate recommendations for people at events to meet other people. If it sounds too simple—well, because it is. Even if one is a seasoned schmoozer, one still has to go through trial and error before landing the right connection.…

Howdy helped connect Richard Branson and Singapore’s extraordinary Ong Beng Seng last night, who can we help you connect with?

Richard Branson made a flying visit to Singapore yesterday and I was fortunate to have some time with him.

As we chatted I said “did you connect with OBS?” Richard said that the timings were so tight that he hadn’t thought it would be possible, but if I could work it out now then he would love to see him.…

How one introduction changed my life.

It was summer of 2012 and I had just graduated from university. The City of London beckoned  as did an accompanying job in finance. That’s what a lot of my friends were doing and was deemed normal in my world. It’s the next step, right?…

How an introduction to Richard Branson in 1984 inspired Howdy in 2016

I wouldn’t be here today – writing this, launching Howdy – if it hadn’t been for a thoughtful introduction.

It was 1984. Richard Branson took Virgin to new heights, literally, with their maiden flight to New York. Virgin was no longer just about music and Richard needed someone very special to help him run his new empire.…