Doing the Work

Actionable advice for the entrepreneur, freelancer, and startup founder

David LauferSep 30, 20158 min read

Branding for Lean Startups

Eureka: So, you’ve got a brilliant, disruptive, innovative business concept, and you’re ready to start building an exceptional organization around it. In a perfect world, you would have the cash to hire a blue-blood legal team and a red-hot branding firm, and roll out your identity…

Lisa JansenMar 137 min read

Five tips to help you find work as a Freelancer

Being a Freelancer is awesome! But, having been…

Henry InnisJan 53 min read

Why Most Brand Marketing Is Bullshit

Wherever you go today, marketers are talking about brands. They talk about being more authentic. More trustworthy. More engaging. More purposeful.

Marketers at their conferences nod and say yes, hold workshops to map out their brand’s…

ChrisJun 30, 20151 min read

Stuff I’m Learning

An occasionally updated list

1. FramerJS

Why? I need to design an interactive prototype for a client project.
How did I decide to learn this? I settled on FramerJS because it seemed like it provided the most bang for the buck where time…

Emelyn BakerJun 4, 20157 min read

Building your design portfolio? Here are 8 things I wish I’d known.

Looking back on my old portfolio…

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Lucy DotsonMay 26, 20154 min read

Designers Say: How to Run an Effective Design Meeting

By Lucy Dotson

I got sick of holding nebulous, time-consuming meetings. So I asked three design managers how they approach the meeting problem.

Henry InnisMay 24, 20155 min read

What Strategists Do All Day

For All You People Who Have No Idea What A Strategist Does

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Chidi AfuleziMay 17, 20154 min read

Ten Commandments for Being An Entrepreneur

First things first. These are not my commandments. No coming down the mountain with tablets from me on this one. This is all Andy Swan’s, check the brother out here on Twitter.

ChrisFeb 10, 201413 min read

Tools I Can’t Live Without

Because life’s too short to put up with crappy ones.

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ChrisOct 16, 20142 min read

Shut up and Listen

Learning to listen for the sake of others

Andrei DraganescuJun 12, 20146 min read

Be happy working on your own

Easy, peasy but not measly

I have heard among colleagues, and also among some people I follow online, a bunch of grumpy talk about how freelancing and independent work is doubtfully a progress, about how working from home makes you not…

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