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I started a business and sold it 4 years later. Maybe you've seen the posts on social media of people promising you a fast-track to £10k per month. Or a proven strategy to get you above £100k. So you might be wondering how it took me so long to start a business and grow it into something that someone wanted to buy. Four whole years. When I could have just joined a cohort of other ambitious founders and whipped up a £1m side hustle in a few weeks. Well, if you've never run a b

Surely that blog title is going to win me some decent SEO results. But it's not just about the organic traffic potential. That title sums up the last 8 years of my career, starting as an employee in 2017, becoming a freelancer and transitioning to an agency owner. Then, selling my business in 2021 and effectively becoming an employee again within the company that I had run for 4 years. And finally, back to the world of self-employment again with FounderON. I would like to thi

In my opinion, your business only launches the day that you have your first client. Obviously there are exceptions, for companies that need to build a product or buy stock, but for a service business there should be no reason why you can't have income immediately. Now I'm not saying that it's easy to sign clients or generate revenue. I just mean that you should do the groundwork before you start relying on your new enterprise to pay the bills. The big risk of course is that y

Always good for a morale boost when I do these blogs about mistakes and failures from my past. But, they also seem to be the most popular, so will park up my ego for another week and crack on. This weeks blog is a demonstration of why you shouldn't just start a business doing something you love. Or something that life guides you to. Well, maybe you should, but only once you've double checked it with the market. The market doesn't care how great an idea is, or how passionate y

I have a busy brain. Usually busy with things I don't need it worrying about. More often than not, some kind of plan to make money. So, for this blog, I thought I would share 5 business ideas that I've had recently that I would start tomorrow, if I had the time. Maybe there's someone out there that's looking to start a business, but needs a little help figuring out what to do. Maybe that person will start one of these company's and make a huge success of it. Maybe they'll fee

I regretted writing this blog within 20 seconds when I stopped to work out how long ago it was that I was 18. Safe to say those 21 years (bloody hell) have gone quickly. It was also a bit of a reminder how the overnight success of Molzi (well not strictly overnight, but 4 quick years) wasn't really overnight at all. So many of the learnings, and failures, and contacts that I'd made during those 21 years put me in a much stronger position to make Molzi a success. Below I try t

There is no bigger leap during your journey as a founder than that very first leap from the safety of employment to the chaos of a startup. I have absolutely no data to back this up, but I would guess that fear of losing the safe monthly income is one of the biggest reasons people don't fulfil their dream to start their own business. But there are ways to reduce the risk, and even start day one with income, if you start preparing in advance of day one. Notice periods are grea

Sometimes the curse of the entrepreneur is the fact that they have too many ideas. Constantly. Hands up the people who have A4 paper filled with scribbles all over their house? So maybe the title of this blog should have been something more like 'How to think of an idea for your business that you can actually do, in the real world', but I'm learning how SEO works and I don't think people are searching for that. As you saw in my previous blog (see here ), I also suffered from

I always wanted to start my own business, but there was definitely a moment where wanting turned to needing. Lets take a trip back in time to try to figure it out. As I mentioned in a previous blog (see here ) I've pretty much spent my life starting up (and more often than not, closing down) businesses. My first proper business was when I was 18 and about to embark on my A levels. It was an online PC brand called StudentDesktops and fortunately, having achieved a D, E and U i

Despite having many attempts at 'doing business' before Molzi (see here ), the reality was that I started out on my first proper entrepreneurial journey with no real clue about how to do it, but a solid confidence that I would somehow make it work. During my four year adventure starting and running Molzi I learned a huge amount. Below would be my top 10 things, purely because, well, everyone loves a top 10. 1. It's OK not to be a billionaire. For many people reading the title

My goal when starting this blog was to write down thoughts, feelings and experiences that I was desperately searching for when starting up Molzi. I would have paid a small fortune to be able to read the business plan of a similar business that grew to a multi-million valuation in 4 years. Thinking about it, maybe I should be charging you to read this. Hmm. Best read on quickly before I figure it out. I didn't raise any funds to start my business. I also didn't need to hire an

I’ve always had a bit of a fascination with making money (or trying to) since I can remember. Even as young as 5 or 6 when I would make books and add a barcode and price to the back to make them easier to sell. It was an itch that I scratched pretty much throughout my life, but at varying levels of effort and success. There was a point that my wife would return from any weekend away with her friends to ask me what company I had set up this time, such was the regularity. But o