Cordelia Meacher

Cordelia is the Founder and Managing Director of FieldHouse Associates, an advisory firm that helps innovators and investors grow and succeed. A communications and business growth consultant with more than 25 years’ experience, she is one of the leading advisors in the fast-growth tech ecosystem, with a deep understanding of the challenges and motivations of startups and VCs alike, and the relationships between them.

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Making the UK the world’s next Silicon Valley? It’s already begun

Jeremy Hunt’s pledge in last week’s Autumn Statement to make the UK the “world’s next Silicon Valley” was music to the ears of those involved in Britain’s thriving technology community. It is a laudable ambition, but as everyone working in UK tech knows, the foundations that can turn it into a reality were laid many years ago.  

Communicating change – lessons learned from the OnlyFans controversy

The backlash against the recent decision by OnlyFans to ban content depicting ‘sexually explicit conduct’ from its platform – and its subsequent U-turn in the face of that backlash – can serve as an important lesson for startups in how (and how not) to communicate news around big business decisions that might impact their customer base.