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Wanting to have your cake AND eat it
It is often said that one of the joys of working in a start up is the lack of process or formality, which enables every member of the team to just get on with the job. In essence in a small business you don’t have or need complex processes because people can just talk to […]
A new chapter
Over the past 11 years, I’ve had the privilege of working for two incredible founders and helped both of them develop successful businesses. When I left InfoSum in October, I thought perhaps I would go and find another founder to work with, but an even more tantalising prospect presented itself, when Riki Dolby told me […]
Everyone is different
As Danvers mentioned in his first blog post, we both have significant experience in growing businesses. One key thing that we are both very aware of when joining a new organisation is that although your experience is really helpful, you should avoid falling into the trap of just trying to do whatever worked in a […]
The great growth debate
Before being co-founders at ApprovalDeck, Riki and I were colleagues at another tech company, which we saw grow from 10 staff (when I joined) to 20 (when Riki joined), to around 140 people, with most of this growth happening in the two years between mid-2020 and mid-2022. We’d both been through growth journeys at other […]