As any seasoned entrepreneur will tell you, raising capital for a startup is never easy, regardless of the stage or maturity the business is in — and some may even say it is one of the hardest things you’ll ever do! But if you want to play, a great and…

What actually is Product Strategy? If you’ve been in the industry a while, you may have heard the term thrown around, whether or not it was used in a correct fashion (to be honest, we could debate if there’s a canonical way of using the term at all!). And if…

10 observations that are often missed or misunderstood on the journey to building sustainable and scaleable product-market fit, especially for first-timers Building good products was already hard, making them successful and scaleable is an order of magnitude harder. As there is increasing pressure to show impact earlier and earlier, smarter…

We all know how important real world insights are to the success of our endeavours, but when navigating ambiguity how do we know we have learnt enough to make effective decisions about the way forward? The purpose of learning in an organisation is vital to making good decisions. We invest…

How many of you have been pulled into a heated debate around topics like: is this the ‘correct’ usage of the term ‘platform’? Is this the ‘right’ way of conducting user research? Are we really following a ‘proper’ build process? When we engage in debates on these kinds of topics…

You may have heard of the term fractional leadership, but what does it actually mean? And even more importantly, what impact is it having on businesses and how is it different from more traditional ways of engaging highly experienced talent? Well, it’s not quite consulting, not quite interim management, not…

I’ll start with my confession, I’ve been silently wrestling with impostor syndrome for the entirety of my career. And though there were occasionally moments when my background self-doubt was spot on (and I was really too far up 💩 creek without a paddle), most of the time it was really…

As the old saying goes, time is money. And when we think about this in the context of an early-stage startup, one on the journey to finding a viable and sustainable business model (aka product-market fit), we should more accurately say time is runway. We need to ensure that we…

Whether a team is new to the game, building product for the first time, or they’ve been at if for a few years, wearing that now old t-shirt with pride... when decision making is getting painfully slow, processes are getting a little too bloated for comfort, or teams start to…