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E350 | A drunk graduate today, a professor by 2030 – where AI is right now, with Daniel Hulme

Daniel Hulme isn’t another LinkedIn pundit who plays with ChatGPT and thinks he’s an AI guru. He’s spent the last

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Sun, sweat and scaling up: a week with Smartsourcing

A scorching week in Cebu with Smartsourcing: scaling fast and proving culture’s what happens when no one’s watching.

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Why founder mode beats manager mode: Redefining start-up leadership

Founder mode isn’t chaos, it’s clarity. It’s staying close enough to the work to actually know what’s real.

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E349 | Raising money in a tough market: Lessons from Paul Archer, Jo Saxby and John Readman

Raising venture capital has never been straightforward. But in the UK right now? It’s painful. Series A deals are thin

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Why your 32-page strategic plan is bollocks (but this isn’t a silver bullet either)

Your 32-page plan is wallpaper. The one-pager? A compass, not a cure-all. Execution beats documents every time.

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There ain’t no party like an S-curve party: Why success is never a straight line

Scaling a startup isn’t a straight line – it’s an emotional rollercoaster of chaos, growth, burnout, and reinvention.

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Back to my roots: dyslexia, audiobooks, and why I won’t shut up about education

Not all kids need a better attitude. Some just need a different format.

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Measure what matters, not what’s easy

Stop measuring crap under the streetlight. The real levers are hiding in the dark — and that’s where the money

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Targeted delivery: Giving customers what they actually want

Stop serving crisps to everyone — serve steak to the few who pay the bills and rave about your business.

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Build a talent pipeline, not a hiring frenzy

Stop hiring in panic mode. Build a system that finds, grows, and keeps A-players before you need them.

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Stop babysitting your business: How Culture Design will set you free

Design culture on purpose—or spend your life babysitting a business that never grows up.

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From 7-day grind to 2-day CEO: Developing your leadership team

Stop being the bottleneck. Build leaders who run the business without you—and finally get your life back.