Give before you get!
Topics: Startup, startup ecosystems, communities, failure, passion
Doug Ward is co-founder of Tech Britain, a resource that aims to promote all of the United Kingdom’s tech clusters and foster greater links between them. He is also a technology advisor to No.10 Downing Street as part of the UK Technology and Business Cluster Summit Group created and headed up by Joanna Shields (CEO of Tech City Investment Organisation), UK Ambassador for Digital Industries and an advisor to the University of Manchester innovation centre. Doug is a serial startup entrepreneur, and worked from Melbourne to Manchester. He has been speaking at events like FutureEverything and TEDx. He’s been interviewed by the Financial Times, The Guardian and ITV. He’s co-founder of Techhub Manchester and a firm believer in startup communities.