
Welcome to Making It Up As I Go - my honest founder playbook, sharing my insider take on building, learning, and advising in the founder world. Thoughts inspired from my Visionaries in Progress journey.
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Q4 starts next week, meaning we have 3 months left of the year…
Where does the time go?
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So what better time to reminded about quarterly check-ins - why you need to do it and how to do it...
A new week, a new substack.
This time I want to talk about rejection. If you’re new here, welcome! This is my honest founder playbook, a reminder that you don’t need all the answers to get started… but you do need to start.
This week has...
Want to know a secret about mindset? It's one of the few areas where you get to control the narrative. You literally get to pick how you look at things.
It seems so simple, and I know it’s definitely not.
Overthinking.
Imposter S...
Thanks to everyone who read edition one of Making It Up As I Go, I’m so grateful <33.
If you’re new here, welcome! This is my honest founder playbook, a reminder that you don’t need all the answers to get started… but you do need to start....
Here we go, another idea, another thing to manage.
But anyway, welcome to Making It Up As I Go. My honest Founder playbook.
Where to begin? Shall I start how I narrowly missed a fine from HMRC because I’m literally making it up as I go? O...
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