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Lessons I've learned on building communities & following your passions from my brother
Lessons I've learned on building communities & following your passions from my brother
By Sam Hall
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Why Everyone Should Paint On The Weekends Including Boris Johnson
Why Everyone Should Paint On The Weekends Including Boris Johnson
By Sam Hall
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Life after university: books and experiences.
Life after university: books and experiences.
By Sam Hall
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What are the main advantages and disadvantages of bootstrapping your startup?
Find a great founding team. There are plenty of people out there also wanting to work on great projects. It's normal to be anxious and nervous working with new people but give them trust, get basic founders agreements in place, and get to work doing what you do best.
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What are the main advantages and disadvantages of bootstrapping your startup?
To bootstrap successfully you need to religiously be talking with your users and customers (and always be prioritising paying customers). Work out a plan on getting to profitability as soon as possible as that will help when the novelty and fun on a new project wears off.
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What are the main advantages and disadvantages of bootstrapping your startup?
It's very important that founders can support themselves financially while building a startup and without funding they may not be able to get a direct salary from the company. It also means they have to be extremely ruthless with what they spend their time on as they don't have a super large team.
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What are the main advantages and disadvantages of bootstrapping your startup?
In my experience bootstrapping is a far more sustainable way to grow a business. There are many great businesses ideas out there that with a little bit more love and time would figure out a route to profitability. VC money often forces companies to grow in too many directions and stretches products way too thin.
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“If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” - Sir Issac Newton The older I get, the more I'm in awe of the growth and…
“If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” - Sir Issac Newton The older I get, the more I'm in awe of the growth and…
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What is a Fractional CRO? A question I never expected to have to answer, as I thought it was like Ronseal, but when I announced TrinityHawk last…
What is a Fractional CRO? A question I never expected to have to answer, as I thought it was like Ronseal, but when I announced TrinityHawk last…
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Today I concluded my mini Europe tour with a visit to our second edge data centre in Paris. Franck Kasteller and & Sun Sundareswaran , the…
Today I concluded my mini Europe tour with a visit to our second edge data centre in Paris. Franck Kasteller and & Sun Sundareswaran , the…
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Three of the most common patterns in the most successful founders: 1. Played video games at high level early. 2. Started some kind of…
Three of the most common patterns in the most successful founders: 1. Played video games at high level early. 2. Started some kind of…
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I built 20VC to 150M downloads. Here is my biggest advice to someone wanting to build a personal brand. 👇 1. Pick your channel. You do not need to…
I built 20VC to 150M downloads. Here is my biggest advice to someone wanting to build a personal brand. 👇 1. Pick your channel. You do not need to…
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✨ I've written a new article on the importance of the (S)EIS. ✍🏻 "There are few things more terrifying than accepting an investment for a startup…
✨ I've written a new article on the importance of the (S)EIS. ✍🏻 "There are few things more terrifying than accepting an investment for a startup…
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Sure, you've heard that second-time founders focus on distribution over product. Here's WHY this happens. 1 - GTM is way, way, WAY harder than you…
Sure, you've heard that second-time founders focus on distribution over product. Here's WHY this happens. 1 - GTM is way, way, WAY harder than you…
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