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 …
Keep your friends close and your competitors closer!
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 …
Christmas is Cancelled for Dolce Butter!
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 …
Welcome to Scrappy Entrepreneurship 101!
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 …