Tales from the trenches – Startup Journeys with Richie Barter, co-founder of Coolgarif Tech

Our next “Tales from the Trenches” is with after-dinner speaker Richie Barter. Richie is a software engineer and former derivatives trader, who quit the investment banking industry in 2011 to found Coolgarif Tech, a product and services technology company which specialises in designing bespoke data visualisation for enterprise. Richie’s story is an interesting one: he quit banking with no clear view of the business he wanted to start and limited software development ...

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Last night’s “Tales from the Trenches”: Startup Journeys with Sokratis Papafloratos, tech entrepreneur & co-founder of Trusted Places

Last night we returned to Central Working in Google Campus for dinner and networking. Sokratis gave an insightful after-dinner talk, which was followed by a lively Q&A. Sokratis talked about the importance of having passion for a project, how he works better with a co-founder and his plans for his current project, Togethera, a private social network for families to share photos and memories. He is an inspiring and honest ...

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