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Building an ELT ‘Bot’

February 23, 2021March 22, 2016 by Nick Robinson

As the sun set over Hackney on Friday, the week was winding down as usual for the ELTjam London team. In-boxes were being zeroed; our weekly newsletter was being compiled; tasks were being moved to ‘done’ on the company Kanban board.

The team often ends the week with a bottle of craft ale or two, but the box of 24 beers from Hackney Wick’s Crate Brewery and a 3-litre box of wine suggested that this was to be a different kind of Friday night. At 6pm, we turned off our computers and gathered around the table for the start of our first ever hackathon. It would be the start of a process that, in less than 24 hours, would lead us to create Amé, an ELT ‘bot’.

Applying the Pareto Principle to ELT Publishing

January 31, 2020March 29, 2015 by Nick Robinson

The acronym MVP, or Minimum Viable Product, seems to be popping up in conversations with ELT publishers all over the place right now; and that’s odd, because up until about 2013, I’d never heard a publisher mention it. For those of you unfamiliar with the term, an MVP is a tactic used in product development to gauge customer interest in a new product or product feature. The idea is that you don’t build the whole thing; you just build enough to see whether people might be interested in what you’re proposing. What many people seem to actually be doing with their MVP is applying the Pareto Principle. Otherwise known as the 80–20 rule

Developing our own MVP – Flovoco

January 30, 2020July 9, 2014 by Jo Sayers

On my first day at ELTjam, I was pitched at. Tim, Laurie and Nick (the ELTjam founders) sat me down and tried to sell me their product ideas. This week, we take the first step towards testing whether one of these ideas can become a viable ELT product. Today sees the launch of the flovo.co landing page, our own MVP, a little litmus test. But how did we get to this point and why have we made a webpage before the app is ready?

Introducing: Accelerate Cambridge

January 31, 2020May 16, 2014 by Hristina Vasileva

ELTjam met with Simon Stockley, Deputy Director of Accelerate Cambridge and Hanadi Jabado, entrepreneur and Director of Accelerate Cambridge to talk about Accelerate Cambridge’s approach to entrepreneurship and how the startup weekend format would benefit someone looking to develop their business ideas.

Infographic: Applying the Pareto Principle to ELT Minimum Viable Products

January 31, 2020March 27, 2014 by Tim Gifford

Here’s a catchy infographic depicting the Pareto Principle and its potential application in the development of ELT products. It’s based on a previous post by Nick Robinson.