Life in Weeks
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Benjamin Howes
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Making time for “real work”
A colleague of mine recently asked me how I deal with switching between high level meetings talking about company strategy and then going back to focused tasks such as coding up features for the company’s product. He’s having difficulty finding time to focus on what’s arguably the companies most important and urgent project1, whilst also having a team to manage, and many other “strategic” work…
The 4 week MVP for Hedira
FYI: We sold Hedira in December 2021 and the new owner has unfortunately not continued to develop Hedira due to some challenging personal circumstances.
How I decided to shut down my successful small business
In this post, I’m telling the story of how I decided to walk away from a profitable small company that I started. After making £1M in revenue, I made some of my closest friends redundant, let clients go and wound up operations altogether.