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Making it in America: What international founders & creatives actually need to know
The cultural paradoxes, identity costs, and hidden rules nobody explains
Entrepreneurial Endeavours
The highs, lows, and lessons from building something from scratch. Stories and insights to help you turn ideas into action—and action into something remarkable.
Entrepreneurial Endeavours
Two essentials for building distributed teams
Jeff Bezos once said to bet on things that won't change. Here's one: talent is everywhere.
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5 Founder Types
Which one are you?
Entrepreneurial Endeavours
Deep in the hole at SXSW
“Even now, no one’s willing to talk about failure”.
I heard this from a few people at SXSW this
Innovation
2024's acquisition of the year
The calendar unlock - and why it's another alarm bell for Google
Journal
The Failure Reel: 2023
My top 10 fails of 2023
Entrepreneurial Endeavours
Confessions of a middle-class startup founder
In a world that idolises the billionaires and the big winners, it’s easy to forget there are multiple paths
Entrepreneurial Endeavours
Tour de Freedom
By 2016, Mark Cavendish had won 30 stages of the Tour de France. It was extraordinary. Most pro cyclists go
Independent Paths
The new Mom-and-pop store
“Mom-and-pop” businesses are typically small, family-owned, independent. They’ve gone in and out of fashion (mainly out). But I reckon
Entrepreneurial Endeavours
"The ups and downs of entrepreneurship"
Can someone please ban this phrase?
“Ups and downs” is about as descriptive as saying New York is a place
Entrepreneurial Endeavours
The thing about self doubt
Do you have self-doubt? I do, every time I post here. In fact, I reckon self-doubt is one of the
Portfolio Career
The keynote speaking grapevine
Notes on format innovation, how to get an agent, and experience design
A lot of people want to do more
Creative Business
The alternative advisory board
This felt pretty scary to email to a handful of people the other day: a request
for their time, expertise,
Portfolio Career
“How did you land the gig?”
A simple question that's anything but.
Mindsets & Growth
Hiring: the voices in-between
I first posted this little riff on LinkedIn
[https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6803739664575434752/], and
wanted
Entrepreneurial Endeavours
Runway
When going out and doing a new thing, people often talk about ‘runway’. Usually
this term refers to the number
In The Neighborhood
The new success
There used to be a cafe in the Lower East Side called El Rey. It was a tiny
place, with
Stage Left
As good as it gets
It’s easy to forget that even Hollywood legends had to start somewhere.
There was once a time when Jack