Tag: Making Money
I thought I was going to have to eat grass
There were times when things did get hairy for me when I had no clients, and I wondered about where the money was going to come from.
John Lim
Marketing managers who can't use Excel
My advice for anyone who is employed would be to remember it’s not your business. You shouldn’t be expected to care as much as the person who owns it.
Jordan Stachini
A death-threat-inducing fuck up
Although 10 years on, and since the death threats have stopped, there’s part of me that is secretly pleased to have this anecdote. So here goes…
Nick Ellis
Losing your life savings
Immediately after my MBA at Manchester Business School, I joined a tech startup as an investor employee, investing £50k into the business.
Manoj Ranaweera
Cherry-picking zealots and the pressure to grow
If you tell someone you run your own business, the next question they ask is, ‘How big is it?’. This creates a lot of social pressure to make the business as big as possible (regardless of whether that’s the right thing to do).
Richard Millington
Not ready for the commercial world
We live in a cut-throat world so when at work, the primary focus should be delivering amazing work. I'm not sure the younger generation has worked that out.
Joe Friedlein
Agency M&A - observations of a background man
Done well, M&A can supercharge your agency’s future - building capability and revenue. But there's a lot at stake. Here's some advice from a background man.
Katie Kelly
The Contrepreneur
THE self-appointed, uninspirational, backwards thinking "leader" currently influencing thousands of below-average people
Mike Winnet
Knowing your worth and value
After several successful years building a small tech company, I made the mistake of thinking I knew everything there was to know about business.
Matt Tomkin
No one knows what you do
The solution to this is to know how low you will go and stick to it. Then everything above that is gravy.
John A. Skelton III