In today’s episode, Anna looks at starting a side hustle business and that eternal question that continues to rage, as to whether you should take the ‘sensible’ option of starting a business alongside your job, as a side hustle, or you should quit your job and go ‘all in’ with your business. In a nutshell, […]
Escaping the 9 to 5 with David Altabev
This month’s interview is with David Altabev, whom I met on a paddleboard in the middle of the Thames back in 2015. As I remember, he tried to film me while I was giving my best rendition of Pocahontas (it didn´t go so well, as he couldn´t paddle and follow me while also operating the […]
Balancing your job and starting a business
One question that often comes up in the context of leaving your corporate job and setting up your own business is this: Is it better to quit your job cold turkey so that you can be fully focused on developing the business, or is it better to build a business alongside your job? The truth […]
How do I choose between different business ideas?
In the past couple of weeks, we’ve looked at what to do if you have no idea what business to start and how to start a business using your existing skills. But what if you’re full of ideas? What if you’ve never been able to settle on The One Passion, you’ve got lots of different […]
Use your skills to create a business
Last week, we looked out how you can start to map out your skills, passions and experience as a first step to coming up with a business idea. Now that you have an inventory of your strengths and interests, you can begin to look for patterns, connecting the dots and packaging some of these up […]