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Our time on the Alternative North East (ONE) Digital Accelerator in 2019 was a little bit of a blur. Nevertheless, one piece of recommendation that actually caught with me and that we use inside our enterprise is “traces not dots”. This originates from a man known as Mark Suster. Right here he explains concerning the interplay between an investor and an entrepreneur or enterprise and the way if solely a single dot is seen then it makes it troublesome to see the progress that has been made and that you must flip these dots into traces, like on a graph. Sure you won’t all the time be on an upward trajectory (when it comes to prospects and income) however you can be transferring ahead and rising doubtlessly in different methods.
As an engineer, I like graphs, nonetheless they will lack character and will be troublesome to interpret with out clear annotation. So I like to think about our dots and features extra like music, with adjustments in tempo, dynamics and intonation and an acceptance that it takes apply and endurance to grasp your instrument.
On this weblog article I’ll share with you our newest “dot” or “musical passage” and what we do as a tech start-up to assist talk our actions and plans with our enterprise advisors and supporters. This is only one means of doing issues, however we get a whole lot of worth from collating the data to incorporate in these common updates and it retains me impressed and motivated to hold on when issues get powerful as I can look again and see how a lot we’ve got achieved already.
About Our Weblog
We dwell in an ageing society. However what does that actually imply?
Within the subsequent 20 years the steadiness of younger and previous will shift to the purpose the place there will probably be one aged individual for each two folks of working age. The problem this presents is two-fold, a discount in relations in a position to present assist and a smaller pool {of professional} carers.
TL Tech is a Good Houses Options supplier with a distinction. We assist folks get the most effective out of good dwelling applied sciences and create distinctive dwelling environments to fulfill their wants and finances. Our imaginative and prescient is to “create a house that cares for you as you age”.
Good dwelling applied sciences have the facility to remodel lives, particularly for the weak in our society. This weblog sequence will probably be trying to showcase the alternatives, discover out extra concerning the folks working on this area and the way we are able to create a world the place “good meets type”®.
Our Newest Musical Passage
I put together the updates as a really brief PowerPoint PDF file and I wish to put a pleasant image on the entrance that is perhaps one thing enjoyable or household associated. The updates will not be a proper doc and I believe it’s okay to incorporate a few of your character.
Normally I observe a primary format of:
- Actions & Traction
- Attention-grabbing Good Dwelling & Social Care Information
- Look Forward
- Thank Yous
Nevertheless, this final two months we’ve got really been tremendous busy and have extra particular information to share, together with our new rent Ecaterina and the launch of our Fb Stay tutorials.
New Rent Information
It is a huge milestone for us to have the ability to tackle a knowledge scientist to assist develop a few of our concepts and prototypes. Ecaterina Vidrascu is considered one of The Knowledge Lab MSc college students and will probably be engaged on constructing an Amazon Alexa Ability (like a cell phone app, however for voice) that may assist weak adults in isolation. We’re hoping that Ecaterina can share extra on her experiences and this undertaking in some visitor blogs over the summer time.
Fb Stay Tutorials
Video and voice are key communication instruments for the longer term. Regardless of being a bit petrified about the entire concept, we all know that offering a service like that is actually necessary proper now and we’re very honoured to have the ability to make a distinction in folks’s lives. We’ve had some good engagement thus far and are wanting ahead to constructing on this with extra assist information assets and movies.
Actions & Traction
On this part I might often bullet level all of the issues we’ve been as much as. This consists of occasions, coaching, competitions, funding functions, conferences and progress that we’ve got made with key points of our enterprise progress and improvement.
This has been a busy interval for funding functions and linking up with different organisations the place there are synergies.
We’ve spent a whole lot of time engaged on the updates to the web site in order that we are able to pivot to supply distant assist as an alternative of in individual dwelling visits.
We’re nonetheless growing the idea for the overarching firm mission. Which is to redefine the function of a sensible dwelling and create a future the place your property cares for you. The place your property can adapt as you age and your wants change.
Attention-grabbing Good Dwelling & Social Care Information
Subsequent, I share my curated listing of attention-grabbing articles because the final replace. These often deal with Web of Issues (IoT) know-how on the whole and points of social care or retirement and assisted dwelling.
As you’ll little doubt remember the information recently has been dominated by the devastating influence of Covid-19 on care dwelling residents and folks receiving care at dwelling. Whereas some have mentioned that this will lastly get the federal government to put money into social care and enhance working pay and situations for the carers, I worry that change won’t materialise with any actual tempo.
I discover the information proper now makes me emotional, as an alternative I’ve regarded for extra constructive or non-covid associated articles.
Look Forward
Our look forward abstract tends to look solely on the subsequent 1-2 months. This can often speak about what conferences we would have arising, or if there’s a new spherical of funding. On this replace we’re targeted on persevering with work on our web site information base and the Voice Consumer Interface for Assessing Wellbeing and Assist Wants undertaking.
Thank Yous
We’re extremely grateful all of the assist we get. I believe it’s good to have the ability to give thanks for this, as I do know that individuals’s time is treasured. We have now had assist with our funding functions, recommendation on advertising, HR and personnel assist and what we’ve got appreciated most all, folks serving to to make introductions and widen our community.
Becoming a member of the Musical Passages
We’ve been “recording our start-up music” because the finish of October 2019. That is passage quantity 5 within the sequence. Once we be part of the passages they arrive collectively to make a sound, that’s distinctive to our enterprise and the journey that we’re on. It tells a narrative in a constant and straightforward to digest means. Who is aware of perhaps we’ll work our means as much as a full Sonata someday.
There are a great deal of ways in which you would current your “dot” or “musical passage”. You possibly can do an infographic or a brief video. I’d be all in favour of listening to if anybody else makes common progress summaries of their start-up and what format they use.
If anybody else want to begin one thing like this, my key items of recommendation are:
- Maintain it Easy. Don’t write massive paragraphs, make it simple for somebody to skim via rapidly.
- Be constant. Try to have your dots pretty evenly spaced aside and be disciplined about creating your replace communication to an everyday schedule.
- Use it as a device to replicate and plan. By far probably the most helpful factor about sustaining common updates is that it makes you assessment what you might have finished and what you might have realized. It additionally permits you to take into consideration how this pertains to your subsequent steps and what you need to be specializing in to maneuver the enterprise ahead.
If you’re something like us, you should have felt like that final couple of months have actually simply disappeared. However in making ready our common communication updates, it’s really heartening to understand how a lot we’ve got progressed. Possibly you’d love to do one thing comparable in your private life. It actually does assist to jot down issues down and share your ideas with others, because it additionally makes you extra more likely to obtain your targets. You possibly can begin by reflecting on any positives or determine areas for progress. Maybe you’ve:
- Helped a neighbour?
- Discovered a brand new pastime?
- Began strolling often?
Possibly you’d wish to:
- Spend extra time studying or meditating.
- Enhance you confidence in public talking.
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