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10 things we learnt at The Happy Startup Summercamp

Reflecting on a magical weekend when 120 entrepreneurs got together to learn how to build a business that places happiness as its core

Laurence McCahill3 min read

If you’re happy and contagious clap your hands!

Startup budgets are tight. Timeframes are tight. Runways are short. You don’t have the luxury of throwing tens of thousands of pounds into…

Carlos Saba4 min read

One word – epic.

Laurence McCahill5 min read

The key to winning customers over? LEGO!

It baffled me too, read on…

Fiona Duffy5 min read

Desperately Seeking Cofounder — Gaps and Overlaps

None of us can be great at everything, and even if we were we don’t have the time to DO everything!

Carlos Saba5 min read

Everybody free

Would you want to work in a fear or freedom-led workplace?

Laurence McCahill4 min read

Great ideas don’t happen in the boardroom

Quit brainstorming and get some creative solitude

Laurence McCahill4 min read

WTF is a Startup Studio anyway?

A better way or just different way of building successful tech companies?

Carlos Saba7 min read

What’s the one skill you need to become a more focused entrepreneur?

The link between mindfulness, happiness, productivity and profit

Fiona Duffy5 min read

How to develop passionate customers: Lean Brand 101

A post by Jeremiah Gardner, creator of the Minimum Viable Brand

Fiona Duffy4 min read

10 awesome tools a happy startup shouldn’t live without

1. Lean Canvas If you’re an early stage startup the last thing you want to have to do is write a 30 page business plan.

Fiona Duffy7 min read

Killer advice from the man building 12 startups in 12 months

“Stop talking, start doing. Talk is cheap”

Fiona Duffy5 min read

There is no such thing as work-life balance

30 rules for building a business without losing your soul

Carlos Saba4 min read

How the UK’s favourite frozen yogurt company built a business around friendship

A startup story that began on the beaches of Pembrokeshire

Fiona Duffy9 min read

29.5 tips for wantrepreneurs

Some random observations from working with lots of startups and building my own

Laurence McCahill2 min read

The secret science of creating lifetime customers

How a small cycle store in the US became a test lab for groundbreaking customer service practices.

Laurence McCahill4 min read

Branding is…

not bullshit, but critical to the success of your business. There’s a lot of confusion about what it means and why it’s so important to get it right.

Laurence McCahill3 min read

Everyone thinks we’re crazy!

Happiness, Business(?) and Monetisation or how we learned to stop worrying and love our startup.

Jo Chasmar & Andy Homeyer6 min read

Why I work in an agency

From one-man band to cog in the wheel

David Townsend4 min read

What do developers do for a holiday? (Code!)

HouseMateApp Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve spent a few hours of my spare time working on a personal project.

David Townsend4 min read

5 simple ways you can make your startup marketing efforts invincible

A bunch of things entrepreneurs need to think about in the early stages of building an audience

Fiona Duffy9 min read

Don’t Bankrupt Your Startup Dream in 2014

10 tips to avoid startup bankruptcy

Carlos Saba4 min read

Why startups need design from day one

You can’t just ‘add some UX’ at a later date

Laurence McCahill9 min read

10 ways you’ll probably f**k up your startup

Here I highlight some common early-stage mistakes I come across working closely with startup teams (and how you can avoid them)

Laurence McCahill10 min read

I cannot tell you how long this will take

Why are time estimates always wrong for development

David Townsend2 min read

Start with values, not your idea

“Values are timeless. They are the bedrock of a company and don’t change even when everything else does.”

Laurence McCahill3 min read

The Happy Startup School Guide to MVPs

Getting your idea off the ground sooner!

Carlos Saba7 min read