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Projects & Experiments

Things I’m working on or have worked on in the past. I like to run lots of quick, cheap experiments to test whether particular business ideas could be interesting.

E-commerce

Comparing Payment Gateways and Merchant Accounts

Working out how to accept payments online is a pain. What do you need, exactly? Which payment gateway should you choose? How much will it cost? I’ve set up a few online businesses now, so I think I have a pretty good idea of it all, but I remember how Read more…

By Matt Collins, 10 years10 years ago
Projects & Experiments

Boudoir Privé – Beauty Boxes by Subscription

I’ve recently launched a new subscription e-commerce business and it turns out we’re in a hot space again (as we were with DealBunch and the daily deal phenomenon last year)… Boudoir Privé is all about meeting the desire that a lot of women have for beauty products. Each month, we send Read more…

By Matt Collins, 11 years7 years ago
Local Online

Group-Buying Deals for London

Very soon, together with my co-founders, I’m going to be launching a new venture. Like VouChaCha, it’s going to offer local deals. And like MenuLover, it’s food-related. This time, though, there’s a new twist: group buying. The group buying bit works like this: When you sign up for our service, Read more…

By Matt Collins, 12 years7 years ago
Projects & Experiments

ReceiptFarm – Easy Way to do Expenses

I’ve been working on a new service lately, called ReceiptFarm. The idea of it is to take the pain out of doing expenses. It works like this: You send us your expense receipts once a month. We scan and input them. You get a report about your spending and a Read more…

By Matt Collins, 13 years12 years ago
Entrepreneurship

Launch48 – Launching a Start-up in a Weekend

Making Stuff Happen in 48 Hours The last couple of days I was involved in another “build a website in 48 hours” event. This time, it was Launch48, organised by a couple of friends of mine, Ian Broom and Adil Mohammed. Thanks to lots of great work from Ian and Read more…

By Matt Collins, 13 years6 years ago
GoodGym
Projects & Experiments

GoodGym – Winners of SI Camp 2!

This weekend I was lucky enough to be part of the second Social Innovation Camp. Like the first SI Camp back in April, the idea was to get geeks and social innovators together for an intense couple of days to work in small teams to prototype some socially-beneficial web tools. Read more…

By Matt Collins, 13 years6 years ago
Projects & Experiments

Enabled by Design

I had the pleasure of attending Social Innovation Camp this weekend. It was a chance to meet some great people, all with an interest in making the world a better place by using web technology as the basis for social ventures of one sort or another. A little like Startup Read more…

By Matt Collins, 14 years10 years ago
Projects & Experiments

How to Find Top Tips on Almost Anything (…or Just a Few Random Things for Now)

photo credit: Seth Thomas Rasmussen Do you collect tips and tricks? Do you want to know how to do almost anything better? And do you like to share what you know? Then Tipfo is for you. The alpha version of the site is ready to try out now. Expect broken Read more…

By Matt Collins, 14 years8 years ago
Projects & Experiments

Mulogy.com site revamp

I’ve just revamped mulogy.com and finally moved this blog to a private WordPress installation. Let me know if you have any problems with any of it.

By Matt Collins, 14 years12 years ago
Projects & Experiments

Yet Another Localmouth Facelift

Yes, it was time for another round of CSS fun and some delving into istockphoto. I’ve been a bit freer with the colours with this version which I think makes the site look a bit more inviting. I’ve also added some graphical buttons to make the site look a bit Read more…

By Matt Collins, 15 years10 years ago

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Matt's a product and technology consultant based in London, helping businesses build good digital products and services in smart ways.

He is passionate about building the right things as well as building things right.

Prior to helping other companies with product and technology, Matt was co-founder and CTO at several startups and a software engineer at Cisco Systems.

Matt has an MBA from INSEAD and a degree in Maths and Computation from Oxford University.

If you're interested in working together, please contact Matt here.

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