Let’s face it, I’m a dinosaur in this fast-paced world of agency building. While it seems like running a one-person agency and hitting seven figures in your first year is the norm these days, my journey was much different. …

When I sat down to write this blog post, it was going to be titled “Tips and tricks to find your first junior (ruby on rails) developer role” But, as I was writing it, I couldn’t shake off the feeling that I was repeating what everyone else was saying. …

Or why it took me nearly a year to write my first post here. Exploring my own fear and possible impostor syndrome. I bought this domain name nearly a year ago, full of enthusiasm. This is not the first time I was going to publish something on the internet. For…

Who wants to be stuck in an office when it’s this warm outside? Not us! Here are our top 5 places for catching some sun while you work — tried and tested by the CookiesHQ team. The Famous Royal Navy Volunteer This dimly-lit pub has a secret sunny roof garden with plenty of seating —…

I am a big fan of Baremetrics’ blog, so when Josh Pigford wrote his latest post “Being a solo founder: Pros, Cons, Tips & Tricks” it gave me the idea to share my views on being a co-founding couple in the same format. Not only did we, Nat, my wife…

While everyone is chasing the next unicorn, we’re witnessing (and loving) that some people are still trying to make a (very) decent living without looking for indecent amounts of cash injections to cover the costs of their grand scheme for customer acquisition. We have helped dozens of bootstrapped businesses, from…

We’re a web and mobile development studio, so one of the first perks on offer is a development machine of your choice, maxed out with all the tools you could need. We offer each of our team members a Kindle reader and maintain a good e-book library. …

It’s funny how sometimes little methods, when applied religiously, can help you develop better products that just make your job easier. One of those well known methods is the “The rules of 5 whys”, where you try to dig to the root cause of a problem by continually asking ‘why’…