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- New data institutions are the key to London’s growth standard.co.uk
London and the UK need to drive innovation to solve the challenges of our time. (Jonathan Brady/PA) PA Archive 28 July 2023 A little over 150 years ago, the…
- How to build a basic marketing strategy for small businesses marketingweek.com
- Life & Health for Businesses | Assured Futures assuredfutures.co.uk
Well-done summary of types of business insurance.
- Corporate Legibility for Software Engineers matt.blwt.io
Corporate legibility is the art of making tasks, and their outcomes, easier to understand for those not directly involved.
- Employee number disclosures – what’s mandatory? whitefieldtax.co.uk
- Split Your Overwhelmed Teams - ACM Queue queue.acm.org
Two teams of five is not the same as one team of ten.
- Dividend Payments – Practical Issues And Pitfalls - Tax Insider taxinsider.co.uk
- Giving a Shit as a Service - Allen Pike allenpike.com
I used to puzzle over why potential clients who reached out to me always seemed to get more interested in hiring us if I tried to dissuade them by asking challenging questions. I think the biggest reason is that pushing back demonstrated that I care. If you email 4 software studios for a quote and 3 say “Sure, here’s a quote” but the 4th says “Hm, we certainly could build it but we can’t be sure about cost without knowing X and Y, and here are some other concerns we’d have” then the 4th is going to seem like they give a shit.
- Paying dividends the essentials | ICAEW icaew.com
- 150 UK small business grants to apply for right now smallbusiness.co.uk
Can I have my tea first?
- Swoop Funding | Business funding & savings swoopfunding.com
- Forget personalisation, it’s impossible and it doesn’t work marketingweek.com
Amen.
- Recession: Simple Advice for Designers | 3. Running a design firm (Noisy Decent Graphics) noisydecentgraphics.typepad.com
Some stellar advice here.
There’s really only one key factor that distinguishes enterprise selling from everything a product person knows, and that is enterprise selling ends with the product and starts with the enterprise. Of course that is the complete opposite of what one might normally think where everything starts with a product. Even with the most amazing and inventive product ever conceived, selling at the enterprise level and enterprise scale requires inverting your perspective.
- No Meetings, No Deadlines, No Full-Time Employees sahillavingia.com
Via Popular.
How should you structure a larger engineering organization, one with dozens (or hundreds) of engineers? There are many tradeoffs to consider, and no single right answer. But, there are some structures that work better than others.
- The Strategic Independent tomcritchlow.com
A book - serialized free online - about the art and science of independent consulting.
- Small tech scattered-thoughts.net
Role models matter. So I made a list of small companies that I admire. Neither giants nor startups - just people making a living writing software on their own terms.
Via Popular.
U.S. companies such as DuPont and General Motors moved from a functional to a multidivisional structure in the early 20th century. By the latter half of the century the vast majority of large corporations had followed suit. Apple proves that this conventional approach is not necessary and that the functional structure may benefit companies facing tremendous technological change and industry upheaval.
Its fundamental belief is that those with the most expertise and experience in a domain should have decision rights for that domain. This is based on two views: First, Apple competes in markets where the rates of technological change and disruption are high, so it must rely on the judgment and intuition of people with deep knowledge of the technologies responsible for disruption.
- Contractor Salary: Choosing a Tax-Efficient salary in 2019/20 inniaccounts.co.uk
- Most Startups Should be Deer Hunters - Both Sides of the Table bothsidesofthetable.com
- On being lost medium.com
- How does FreeAgent handle the reverse charge? – FreeAgent support.freeagent.com
- Startup landing page conversion from Roast My Landing Page roastmylandingpage.com
- Directly Responsible Individuals | GitLab about.gitlab.com
- airfocus airfocus.com
Prioritization platform built to help you make the right product decisions.
- How McKinsey Destroyed the Middle Class theatlantic.com
Technocratic management, no matter how brilliant, cannot unwind structural inequalities.
- Amazon Has a Secret Weapon Known as "Working Backwards"--and It Will Transform the Way You Work inc.com
Over the past 25 years, Amazon has transformed itself. What began as an online bookseller has become one of the world's largest retailers. Beyond that, Amazon…
- What contractors should ask recruitment agencies about IR35 reform contractoruk.com
News What contractors should ask recruitment agencies about IR35 reform Back in mid-November, we were a bit down to have to report that as many as one third of…
- 5 years on the road tomcritchlow.com
I’ve been independent 5 years today. Exactly one year ago I posted 4 years on the road . After an incredibly busy summer, my retained revenue had just dried up…
- Mwie Ltd (13 Nov., 2019, at Interconnected) interconnected.org
About three weeks back, fellow traveller Tom Critchlow shared his annual notes on being an independent consultant: 5 years on the road: Thoughts on sustainable…
- Ask HN: How do B2B startups sell to corporations? | Hacker News news.ycombinator.com
- Possible scenarios facing contractors when IR35 reform is enforced qdoscontractor.com
Many contractors are unsure about how private sector changes will play out Contractors have shown huge resilience in recent years, having been impacted by…
- CoTech « Cooperative Technologists coops.tech
A network of ethical co-operatives providing technology, digital and creative services.
- Co-operatives UK uk.coop
The network for thousands of co-operative businesses, Co‑operatives UK works to promote, develop and unite member-owned business
- How contractors can prepare for 2020 private sector IR35 reform contractoruk.com
Private Sector IR35 Reform How contractors can prepare for 2020 private sector IR35 reform Most PSC contractors know by now that from April 6th next year, they…