Here’s a statistic that will feel familiar to a lot of small business owners: of the UK’s 5.7 million private sector businesses, around 4.1 million have no employees at all. That’s roughly three in every four SMEs where one person is the founder, the finance team, the marketing department and the admin assistant – and…
We’ve lost count of how many times someone’s told us speed networking is pointless. “You can’t build a real relationship in five minutes.” “It’s all surface-level.” “Nobody remembers anyone afterwards.” Here’s our problem with that argument: nobody ever said you would build a relationship in five minutes. You’re starting one. And you cannot know which…
Spoiler: it’s not the founders working the longest hours. It’s the ones who’ve got better at saying “not me” to the stuff that doesn’t need them. The direct answer: The fastest-growing businesses aren’t run by the hardest-working founders — they’re run by founders who protect their attention not just their time. Research consistently links delegation,…
Are you thinking of starting a new business? Here are some helpful things to think of.
