He's far too modest to talk about it himself, but Gavin Mills, our head of UX, has not only delivered his first successful pitch, but has also become a media darling. Well, not quite. But he did complete our first ever podcast interview, with the awesome guys over at The Daily Spin, a NY-based podcast that talks to early stage startups to learn the real story of what it's like to follow your dreams, write the code and ship products. I may be biased, but I think he did a great

If you've been following along with the wild ride that is ShelfLife, you would have heard about Gavin's first ever solo startup pitch earlier this week - to an incubator program in Lisbon. You can break out the bubbly, because our Head of UX now has a 100% strike rate! We just got accepted to Fabrica de Startups Discovery program! Yes, we were pretty stoked as well, but by the time our hangover had subsided to manageable levels, we discovered a new problem: if we wanted to t

I'll have to admit that presenting and pitching are not my strong suits, but with Trent flying around South-East Asia meeting investors and advisors and Shanti up to her neck in lines of code, getting the booking engine functional ahead of our next release, the baton was handed to me. When Fabrica de Startups invited us to apply for a spot in their amazing-looking Discovery program (a startup incubator focussed on the Travel & Tourism sector), we all knew it was an opportunit

We've been fielding a ton of enquiries, interview requests, life rental opportunities and even a couple of job applications as a result of the tech coverage we've been getting but probably the most significant contact came late last week from a startup incubator program based in Lisbon, Portugal. Fabrica De Startups is part of the F6s network and state their mission is "to help people to become successful entrepreneurs. Using our methodology we help them identifying business