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“How do we make the one decision that resolves a thousand future decisions?” Every Product Manager I’ve spoken to says they are short on…

Bootstrapping a business isn’t easy. Your team need to work out not only which problem to solve without a budget, but to determine whether…

None. We are an independent, mission-driven team & want to stay that way. We aren’t owned by some dodgy data-abusing corporation. We are…

Assuming you sleep, we are all limited to around 16 hours per day, each day. That’s the amount of time we can spend in whichever way we…

Becoming The Next Big Thing This article is not an attack on individuals companies. It is, instead, a critique of a startup culture that…

I’ve started to try and look for a pattern in everything. Specifically, with my approach to product, I try to look out for the one thing…

Investment, experience, an Agile product development process. None of these things matter. Using my own experience building a profitable…

When we hear stories of success, whether business or personal, it’s easier to say there’s this one big moment. A flash of inspiration. A…

A Promise to Yourself Quite frankly, it’s a fucking joke — laughable even — the amount of times I’ve set some big, grandiose goal at the…

It’s easy to be naïve; to accept what is said to you at face value, rather than probing the ulterior motives. It makes it easier to deal…

What to do about it Yesterday I realised for the first time that my boss had lied to me. Coincidentally, I had just finished listening to…

Discover that burning need you can’t ignore Why ‘need’, not ‘want’ is the key to success “Desire is the starting point of all achievement…

Early success came easily. A few months into my first start-up & we had already had an App Store feature under ‘Best New Apps’, 15k…

That Sunday feeling won’t go unless you change. For the first time in my life, I get it. I had spent a lovely weekend in London catching up…