Richard Lucas July 2018 Years ago I wrote a column for a Startup magazine called “Proseed” Entrepreneurs wrote to me with their problems and I shared my advice. A kind of “Agony Aunt” for startups. A few weeks ago a trusted friend introduced me to a team of keen programmers and developers from a high […]
May 2018 I’m on my way to Infoshare.pl - the largest IT event in Central Eastern Europe. The reason ? I'm giving a talk about the challenges startup businesses have with management - and what founders and investors can about it. I'm also looking forward to seeing Peter Cowley, and his son Alan. The organisers - […]
March 2018 I came across this interview from 2011 and thought I'd repost it. PMR was a member of SIPA - the Specialised Information Provider Association www.siia.net back then. Full credit to Ronn Levine for the interview What was your first job out of college and how did you get into this business? I set […]
Richard Lucas This is a list of past and events I have or am going to speak at, host and/or organised. I welcome invitations. Please read this first. I speak about entrepreneurship, leadership and business. My talks and hosting are interactive, participant focussed, high quality and fun. I've written about this here. My experience at […]
Richard Lucas February 2018 I spoke to Harriet Noble for the Project Kazimierz podcast. I wanted her on the show because I was interested in the cross over between what she does as a job - finding new solutions to the world's problems, and what TEDx License Holders do in terms of finding great ideas […]
February 2018 It's not often I have a world leader on my podcast, but the latest episode of the Project Kazimierz podcast has the founder of the world's leading on line squash training site. I'm really proud of having this story on the show. It's also quite moving, at least to me. Here is the interview […]
Richard Lucas 13th December 2017 The yearly OMGKRK X-MASSive party is a fixture for the Krakow Startup community. Our 2017 event is tomorrow 14th December 2017. Details here This blog post recalls the history of how these huge parties started, and shares some lessons for anyone wanting to organise major events on tiny budgets. […]
Richard Lucas 8th November 2017 This blog post is to go with my podcast interview with Russell Hicks - which goes live today. There will be the first airing of my new pre-roll, a new 'old' music voice over, and very different content. I was very, very pleased to have Russell on the show and […]
by Richard Lucas 1st November 2017 This post is part of a series to go with the Project Kazimierz podcast. This interview is on line here. Asaf Navot is the founder of Home Made in London, a fast growing residential property service which is both cheaper and better than existing services. Prior to founding his […]
In B2B marketing - content is king - an interview with Augustin Kennady of ShipMonk by Richard Lucas This article ends with "how to" and "what to do" for those who are already sold on the idea. If you want to listen to top professionals Sonal Chokshi from a16z and Camille Ricketts is the Head […]
October 2017 I’m doing a workshop at the Winchester College - the School I attended many years ago -on the pros and cons of starting a business (compared to a conventional career) and put together a "reading, listening and viewing" list) for the boys. This list is not complete, but as my father often said […]
by Hugo Dutka This is not a regular Richard Lucas post – because it wasn't him who wrote it. My name is Hugo Dutka. I am a Polish high school student and I like meeting entrepreneurs. Richard suggested I share this story. To cut a long story short, I was lucky enough to spend my […]