Archive for 'Huddle Life'
Huddle Running Team Race Report
Posted on 15. Jul, 2011 by Colin.
Last week, no fewer than 16 intrepid Huddlers took part in the JP Morgan Corporate Challenge, a 5.6km running race through leafy Battersea Park. The runners and the vociferous cheering crew alike were pleased to see the morning’s torrential downpour subside to leave London bathed in glorious sunshine in time for a gentle warm up [...]
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Huddle at the races
Posted on 08. Apr, 2011 by Rishi Chowdhury.
As spring arrived it was time for another Huddle ‘ompulsory fun day (or rather evening) out. This time, the intrepid Huddle team took to the track for a spot of horse racing. Well actually we just went to watch, and lose money. In fact, not everyone lost money. Some of the team actually came away [...]
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The marafun site visit: Why we are running
Posted on 29. Mar, 2011 by Colin.
Along with fellow Marafun team members Bulat and Harry, I had the pleasure of spending Monday afternoon in the company of Pat Ryan, CEO of IT4CH, the charity we’ll be supporting when we hit the streets on 17 April. IT4CH is a fantastic charity and its aim is to provide all children and young people [...]
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The Marafun Team: Harry Knibbs
Posted on 03. Mar, 2011 by Lucy.
There’s just one month and 21 days to go until this year’s London Marathon and it’s now full steam ahead for the Huddle marathon team. The intrepid Huddlers are running in aid of IT 4 Children in Hospital (IT4CH). The aim of IT4CH is to provide all children who are sick, disabled or underprivileged with access [...]
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The Marafun Team: Ashleigh Casner
Posted on 31. Jan, 2011 by Lucy.
As you’ll have seen from previous posts, Huddle has a team running this year’s London Marathon in aid of IT 4 Children in Hospital (IT4CH). The aim of IT4CH is to provide all children who are sick, disabled or underprivileged with access to ICT. This is a very worthy cause, so please get giving – every [...]
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The Marafun Team: Colin Grossman
Posted on 14. Jan, 2011 by Lucy.
As announced last week, Huddle has a team running this year’s London Marathon in aid of IT 4 Children in Hospital (IT4CH). The aim of IT4CH is to provide all children who are sick, disabled or underprivileged with access to ICT. This is a very worthy cause, so please get giving – every penny helps! http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/HuddleMarathon [...]
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Let the Marafun begin!
Posted on 05. Jan, 2011 by Lucy.
As we welcome in 2011, people across the globe are no doubt making resolutions to become healthier, slimmer, more active etc. And the Huddle team is no different. Unashamedly following the “New Year = new fitness regime” trend, Huddlers can be seen racing to the local gyms and running along the pavements near Huddle HQ. [...]
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Connected in the cloud: Customer engagement from any location
Posted on 09. Dec, 2010 by Pauline.
As a member of Huddle’s customer engagement team, my role is to manage our public sector customers and help them get the most out of Huddle. I spend around 80 per cent of my time out of the office meeting with our government customers across the UK. The technology I use enables me to constantly [...]
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Huddle’s best World Cup teams of all time
Posted on 09. Jun, 2010 by Colin.
As you’re probably aware (and perhaps already weary of), the 2010 FIFA World Cup kicks off in South Africa on Friday. Here at Huddle, we’re big believers in the fact that people work better together and great team collaboration can generate great results. So, to get into the swing of things we’ve launched the Official [...]
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Huddle, the world turns to Twitter for some #ashrelief
Posted on 19. Apr, 2010 by Lucy.
As air travel continues to be disrupted following the eruption of Eyjafjallajokull on Wednesday, the Huddle team has suffered minor blips. Huddle co-founder Andy McLoughlin (@Bandrew), who was supposed to have returned to the office last Friday, is now guaranteed to miss TechCrunch’s Geekn Rolla on Tuesday. Meanwhile, Charlie Blake Thomas (@lepapa), due to return [...]
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Huddle Cupid unleashed
Posted on 10. Feb, 2010 by Zuzanna.
Secret crush or someone special you’ll share Valentine’s Day with? Too shy to say it with flowers or worried that you’ll forget? Fear not, Huddle Cupid is at hand! We’re pretty sure that nothing says ‘I love you’ better than Huddle’s Large Team package for your loved one. However, we recognise that this is probably [...]
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Naked brainstorms? Only at Huddle.
Posted on 23. Nov, 2009 by Zuzanna.
How does the Huddle team end up stark naked in a boardroom? Easily. We’d do anything for charity. The Huddle photograph is one of 24 tasteful pictures of internet entrepreneurs published in the Nude London Tech calendar. Proceeds from the calendar go to Take Heart India, a youth-run charity focused on IT education projects in [...]
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Huddle Movember look-a-likes…
Posted on 12. Nov, 2009 by simon.
Remember, remember the month of Movember, When dodgy tashes truly are hot, It seems the trend at Huddle HQ, Has really affected this lot…. 11 days into the charity challenge and in many cases there isn’t a lot to report, however even the merest of hint of hair on the upper lip seems to have [...]
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Do you Huddle?
Posted on 09. Jul, 2009 by Martin.
Obviously we’re big fans of Huddle, and a few of us in the office are sporting Huddle t-shirts and chucking Huddle rugby balls at each other’s heads but we wanted all of you to be able to show your love by wearing your own Huddle schwag, so we have teamed up with Zazzle to create [...]
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Making a greener developer
Posted on 17. Jun, 2009 by Rob.
I often wonder, if I eventually have my own start up, what would it be like? Well amidst all the beans bags, laptops, bikes, and working in the sun, one of my big things is being efficient. Not only in a work sense but in a energy/green sense too. It’s always amazed me at previous [...]
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10 reasons you’re better off during a tube strike
Posted on 09. Jun, 2009 by Martin.
London is bracing itself for a 48 hour strike across its Underground network, but we don’t think it’s all bad. There are at least 10 good things about the tube being down… You don’t need to spend an hour inside an ancient, rattly, smelly, hot, noisy tube. And thats before you even get on the [...]
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Barbecue Club
Posted on 24. Apr, 2009 by Martin.
Huddle is fascinated with clubs – with a Film Club, Thursday Drinking Club, Soup Club, Football Club, Cycling Club and an Ultimate Fighting Club (though thats just Nopadon and me) its amazing we ever get any work done. As Andy said “if you make anything a club or society it somehow becomes acceptable” – so we just [...]
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Building a “Team of Peers”
Posted on 22. Apr, 2009 by Andy.
I gave a talk at yesterday’s TechCrunch Europe Geek’n’Rolla conference about dealing with growth, hiring a brilliant team and creating a great company culture. As I said in my speech, many of Huddle’s achievements make me very proud but (probably) the thing that i’m proudest of is the team of amazing people we’ve brought together. [...]
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Go West?
Posted on 17. Apr, 2009 by Alastair.
Right, rather than launching into a particularly bad rendition of the Pet Shop Boys, I thought today I would muse on a particular thorny issue for Huddle and many of our peers on the UK’s early stage tech scene. Should we stay British or relocate to the Valley? If yes, when? Is this a sign of giving [...]
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Making a better developer
Posted on 06. Apr, 2009 by Rob.
I’ve been at Huddle for a year now, and since joining I’ve not only dramatically increased my learning curve, but I’ve become a much better all round developer, and so has everyone else in the team. So how does Huddle vary from other jobs I’ve had, and what are we doing differently? Here are a [...]
