The Product Leadership Podcast From Lighthouse London

Stan talks about his startup journey, creating two business in five years which took them from humble beginnings to graduating Techstars in 2015

Dan and Tom talk about how to chat to customers and get awesome feedback on your product. What should you be asking? Where can you find your users and much more...

We chatted with Rozel Studio founder Howard Gray about how to evaluate your startup ideas and choose which are the best ones to test and launch

What are the steps needed to get your startup idea out of your head and into the real world? Follow these three simple steps to start engaging with your audience and learning about your product without the need for any technical knowledge More episodes and articles on the Lighthouse London blog http://wearelighthouse.com/blog/

We all sat around and talked about our high and lowlights of 2015 as well as our wishes for 2016. There's also a tense vote for the internal results of the Best Christmas Card competition.

Russ chats to Tom about Coin, a side project he set up in early 2015. He discusses where it's at now, where it might go and what problems it needs to overcome in the future.

As part of our hack day trip to Bath we got round a table and talked about the recent re-design of the Lighthouse website. There were laughs, there were tears, there was authentic rural background noise.

How do we use these simple tools for great learning in design and build projects? Where do wireframes end and prototypes start? We're not sure we have all the answers but we gives it our best shot!

Kick off meetings, are they the best meetings? Everyone’s so positive and excited. Russ and Dan immerse themselves in these most cherished moments in the client/agency relationship, the bit before anything’s gone wrong. Why are they important? What should be covered in one? Would a game of Twister work?

And you may ask yourself, how did I get here? Russ & Tom learnt design over 10 years apart, in this week's podcast they discuss how they started their careers and how things done changed. Hear Tom grapple with how long ago it all was and raise an eyebrow at the role Russ' printer played. Most of all, enjoy!

Prototyping is great. So great that we talked and recorded and it's a podcast. Dan & Tom on the mics. What are prototypes? Why are they so useful? How can they save your startup idea? We discuss how prototyping can help both startups and established businesses and why recently we've become addicted to them.

Dan and Christy discuss choosing technologies. Trying to stay impartial because unbalanced views are the biggest problem, they fail to be impartial. There was swearing. Apologies to any technologies offended. What are the different aspects around choosing a technology Tried and tested vs cutting edge The biggest mistakes we've made Why developers are not the people to ask It’s a long one but if you stick around there’s the opportunity to hear Christy’s vision for Lighthouse, which is frankly terrifying. Watch out for the accompanying blog post which tries to make sense of the madness.

Christy and Russ discuss their personal experience of side projects, of which they have started many and finished few. Why do side projects? Why is finishing them so hard? What happens to the unfinished ones? Some real insights into the design and dev duo's process (or lack of) and lessons learned.

Tom & Dan discuss the skills and qualities a startup founder needs and a couple that they probably think they do but don't. The importance of a strong vision Why you don't need coding skills The irreplaceability of industry insight Good determination and bad determination