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Choosing the wrong business structure at the start costs UK founders money in taxes, limits their ability to raise funding, and, in some cases, creates personal liability they never intended to accept. I see this repeatedly: a founder who registered …
In 25 years of working with UK founders, I have watched dozens of high-potential teams default to applying for Y Combinator, Techstars, or Seedcamp without seriously evaluating whether an accelerator is what their business actually needs. The decision usually goes …
In the last eighteen months, the most common pattern I have seen on first calls with prospective SGI clients is the founder who has spent forty to sixty hours with ChatGPT building their commercial case and is now wondering why …
In 12+ years of working with UK founders and SME owners, I have lost count of the number of times I have had the same opening conversation with a prospective client: they have engaged a startup consultant when they needed …
In 12+ years of working with UK founders, the single most common service-selection mistake I see is a founder hiring a startup consultant when they actually need a mentor, or engaging a mentor when what they need is a defined-scope …
In 12+ years of working with UK founders, I have lost count of the number of pre-seed and seed-stage founders who have come to me having already spent £8,000 to £15,000 on a “startup consultant” who produced a polished slide …
I’ve sat across the table from hundreds of business owners who could tell me exactly what they wanted their business to look like in three years. Bigger team, stronger margins, more locations, better clients. The vision was never the problem. …
The UK produces an extraordinary number of technically excellent products that never become financially significant businesses. I do not mean products that fail because the technology does not work. I mean products where the technology works well, the founding team …
The most dangerous place to be as an entrepreneur is six months into building something nobody has agreed to pay for. I have sat with founders in this situation more times than I can count. They have incorporated a company, …
The most expensive mistake a founder can make is also the most common one. They have an idea they believe in, they spend six to eighteen months and often tens of thousands of pounds building it, and then they find …
