This blog has been a source of stress for me lately. I have years of great content, photos, reports of my travels and recollections of London but after over 30 months of living in London, there are fewer things to share. I go to the same parks, visit the same museums, see the same theatre shows, have the same commute. I even travel less than I did in my early days in England, back when I thought I had six months to see all of Europe as well as explore London.
For a while now, I have begun to wonder if there might be another subject I can cover in this blog – something a bit more relevant to my day to day life and something that will help me think about my professional future. While I’m certainly no expert in business by any stretch of the imagination, the things I am doing and learning while working at Spoonfed Media are so fascinating to me, and so relevant to any job I might take or company I might start in the future, that I want a way to record these lessons learned in a start up environment.
With that in mind, I’m hoping this blog will, to borrow a lean start up phrase, pivot into a new form. While I’ll still share photos from my travels (Italy or Thailand this year… so hard to decide!) and of course highlight any interested London sights and scenes, my main goal moving forward is to start to share some of the general lesson I’m learning about business, start up technology companies, working in a start up environment and hopefully growing a successful business. I look forward to getting started!
Meaghan Fitzgerald is a marketer and entrepreneur building and growing consumer and gaming products and experiences. A Silicon Valley native, she started her first company, DormWise, in 2006 which she later sold in 2009. Meaghan spent 7 years in London in early stage consumer startups, two years at Xbox as a product marketer for Minecraft, and is currently the head of product marketing for VR experiences at Facebook and Oculus. Meaghan writes here about business, technology, gaming, and marketing. She has been named a top
[…] As I mentioned, I’ll be writing less about travelling and London tourist sites (having reached a bit of a been-there-done-that level with the city) and focusing more on the lessons I’m learning working at a technology start up in London. This is mostly about documenting my own experiences in a way that will be memorable and relevant for my future work in my current role, any future jobs I take, or any companies I start. […]