Whilst the thought of launching a business from home can conjure up images of being cooped up behind your laptop screen with only the postman to speak to each morning (!), for many, going solo opens the doors to a whole new social life. A fact that thirty-one-year-old Jenna Collier’s story demonstrates all too well. Having traded the late nights…
As far as company offices go, Tea Building in Shoreditch is up there with the best. From the cobbled floors that line each hallway and allude to the buildings history; Shoreditch House, the private members club, complete with swimming pool, that occupies the top two floors; to the quirky cafés and lounge areas on standby for informal meetings; the former…
With a lucrative background in software engineering to her name, Danielle Kendall’s decision to launch a business selling classy hen do accessories sans the tat, was an idea that I can safely say, she didn’t see coming. In the four years since launching Team Hen from her family home however, with over 60,000 orders shipped to thirty-six countries worldwide, accidental…
The general consensus from the sixty plus interviews I’ve recorded now, is that by and large, the majority of business owners are for want of a better phrase, winging it. Be it that business plans are tweaked as new opportunities crop up (that is of course if they were written in the first place), products are abandoned as new trends…
A year ago today, on August 7th 2017, I opened my laptop and started She can. She did. With next to no young, female founders in my immediate network, zero blog posts or words in general on the website and just the domain name purchased during my three months’ notice (I was a tad in denial about what was in…
