Nov 27, 2017 | Entrepreneurship, How-To
Josh Byers was one of the first winners of one of our $1,000 entrepreneurship grants. At the time he had grand plans to start a confectionery brand selling the UK’s first caffeinated lollipops. In the six months since then he has gone from just a rough idea to a...
Oct 18, 2017 | Business, Entrepreneurship
I want to start a brand of gin. I want to do it cheaply (ideally for around £10k or less) and make lots of money from it. Easy huh? And I am going to write about it in real-time so you can follow along and see it succeed, fail or just meh. Edit: Episode 2 is out...
Oct 4, 2017 | Business, Entrepreneurship
A little over a year ago I launched a consultancy. It was a side business and I don’t push it very much, but I still get a few clients every month almost all of which are brand new or wannabe entrepreneurs. Post: How I Started A Consultancy Business The...
Aug 23, 2017 | Entrepreneurship, Publishing
As a blogger, I am not rewarded for being nice. I am not rewarded for everyone agreeing with what I say or people liking me. I am rewarded for being an arsehole. 99% of my visitors find my site from Google. So let me explain how Google works. They don’t rank...
May 18, 2017 | Entrepreneurship
Often people think about business as a funnel. You get someone in at the beginning, and then take them on a journey where at each step you try and upsell them. There is usually one entrance point, and all the upsells are value adds or a better version of that original...
May 10, 2017 | Digital Nomad, Entrepreneurship
I used to think that creating a good income outside of getting a traditional job was easy. And that anyone who put in enough time and effort would make it. All of my friends who have quit (or never got) jobs and decided to do their own thing have succeeded. Every...