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The sun might be shining, and the weather might be sweet but here at Gallium we’re already thinking about eggnog, latkes and all the holiday gift guides. That’s because it’s Christmas in July! The time when all major publications, including Wired, Stylist and GQ, start pulling together their gift guide features for print. “But Christmas is SO far away!” we hear you say. Why yes it is, but preparing for the holidays starts early for many journalists, retailers and those avid shoppers. All the big retailers open their holiday departments in July; Harrods, Selfridges and Amazon (US, UK and all...

With over 50,000 people from around the world descending on London Tech Week, Prime Minister Theresa May launched the five day event in celebration of the city’s blooming technology sector. Celebrating the sixth year promoting innovation in technology, London was awash with (slightly damp from the downpour) leaders in the tech, transport and education industries including Jack Dorsey of Twitter and Square fame, Lindsay Herbert of IBM and Alex Cruz of British Airways. Across hundreds of events this week, diversity and inclusion was the topic of choice and has finally been given the voice it so deserves. Politicians and international...

I can’t believe Kickstarter is finally 10, and boy how fast time flies when you’re having fun! Working together over the years on many exciting campaigns has been an exciting journey and has given me many friendships along the way. Kickstarter is, in fact, where I ran my first ever crowdfunding campaign for 3Doodler. It was an incredible campaign, full of excitement and anticipation. Having high hopes for the project we set our target at a whopping $30,000, throwing ourselves into the campaign full pelt and believing this first of its kind product would spark creative ideas in the minds...

Founderfest have announced their awesome line up for this year’s conference. With topics including womanhood, Intrapreneurship and the magic of failure there looks to be a lot of great discussion and debate. This year’s speakers include Ifeyinwa Frederick, Co-Founder of Chuku’s, Ambreen Khasru, Head of Business Banking at Monese and Andy Davis, Director at Backstage Capital, as well as our MD and Founder Heather Delaney. Heather joins Samira Abokor, Associate Product Manager at Just Eat, Stephan Eyeson, Guest Products Lead UK at Uber, Matteo Scarabelli, Head Of Investment at L Marks and Ishaan Malhi, CEO of Trussle on a panel....