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Disclaimer Comeback season is in motion, kinda, sorta, but I have to start this by saying I’m an unreliable content creator. I had grand plans to create a content machine from my videos, spinning out blog posts, twitter threads, etc. and I’ve done nothing of the sort. Alas, content is coming, old content, but content all the same. It feels …
How I learnt about fiscal sponsorship Last year, I was introduced to the term Fiscal Sponsorship by a client I took on. Their business oversees the business and financial management for entertainers and entertainment executives. They found that many of their clients wanted to support various causes, without going through the process of setting up their own 501(c)(3) organisation. They …
Though you’re doing business for good, no one said it would be easy. Running a non-profit has its challenges. I should know, I started Visualise in Motion (VIM) in 2020 and it has been one challenge after the other. I’ve bootstrapped the entire time. I self-funded the first programme ‘The Building Blocks Series‘ when we didn’t get the funding we …
I bet you hadn’t considered that had you? I know, me neither. This is a cautionary tale. Sometimes you follow the rules in business and still mess up. When I started Dolce Butter, I was sure I’d done everything I was supposed to when starting a food business. I’ll do a more definitive list another time, but the key things …
When you look at your industry, and you see your competitors in the market, how do you feel towards them? I won’t lie to you, for me, I didn’t even considered them. I was in my own lane. They didn’t exist (well, so I thought). I didn’t need them. I wasn’t trying to see what they had done, or trying …
Yes, you heard correctly. Christmas is cancelled. At least where Dolce Butter is concerned. We’ve been up and running for almost a year now, and it’s been a rollercoaster of a journey. Starting a product based business in the middle of a pandemic with Brexit looming definitely wasn’t one of my best ideas. With a growing list of things I …
This season of life is called be shook and do it anyway. (Shook = scared) To that end, I’ve started a YouTube channel documenting my way through scrappy entrepreneurship. Since the start of the pandemic I’ve started two businesses, the first a community interest company called Visualise in Motion, an organisation I started to help support creative entrepreneurs through some …