My career has evolved around one contact and opportunity leading to another and another, allopening up doors along the way
Read ArticleChallenges & Top Tips
One of the most difficult things to being a founder or running an early-stage business is the lack of human resources and the sheer amount and diversity of work that needs to be...
Read ArticleStart-up to Scale-up
One of the most effective ways of telling your story is by building your network. As any business scales it will inevitably deal with an ever-increasing number of customers and...
Read ArticleThe Next Steps
It’s not what you know but who you know. Or so the old saying goes. Whenever that is said though it always seems to be said in a disparaging way, as in the ‘old school tie’ is ...
Read ArticleLessons Learned
For everyone around the world, the COVID-19 pandemic has changed many aspects of all of our lives. But what lessons have we learned about virtual verses reality? In many ways...
Read ArticleOverheard in a Startup...
These are strange times, unsettling times, and if I am honest this is not a normal question that I overhear much in more normal times, but recently THE question that I keep...
Read ArticleOverheard in a Startup...
Some people are afraid of networking and others love it! It is true. We have all come across people that love nothing more than going to networking events and chatting to...
Read ArticleMentor's Journal
Last week was of course the last real working week of the year, but whilst many will have found opportunities to celebrate most will still have been working hard...
Read ArticleMentor's Journal
Different things drive different people in different ways. That is because each of us wants something different from our lives and we are prepared to make different levels of ...
Read ArticleMentor's Journal
I am sure that each and every one of us would accept that we cannot be good at everything that we do, or that we do not have time to do everything ourselves.
Read ArticleMentor's Journal
Over the last two weeks I have written special articles on ‘Business Plans and Pitch Decks’ and on ‘The Art of Fundraising’ but this week I return to writing 'The Mentor’s Journal'
Read ArticleMentor's Journal
Just as last week’s Mentor’s Journal led me neatly into my article, 'The Power of Networking', so this week started off very much in the same vein with all my early meetings...
Read ArticlePeriodical
Welcome to the first of a periodic series of articles that will take a more in depth look at some of the topics that make frequent appearances in my Mentor’s Journal series.
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One thing that I have learned over the years is the importance of cooperation and working with the right partners, and this has only been reiterated during my activities as a...
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