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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

This week I've felt like I'm back at school, straight after the summer holidays. I kind of remember how to do things, I'm a little bit nervous and I have a lovely selection of new stationary. Yep, it's been my first week back as a founder. Well, I say first week back. The first 3 days since officially registering FounderON Ltd were made up of 2 days holiday and a day with the kids (bloody inset days!). But I thought I would give a quick update on how the other 2 working days

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

Starting our second year as the perfect lifestyle business As we started our second year we were a great lifestyle business. Every day was fun, I don’t remember there being a tonne of stress and I was able to spend every Tuesday with my daughter to take the opportunity to see her grow up. That was my goal when I set-up Molzi, but I found myself daydreaming at any given opportunity about how it would feel to have the first £50k revenue month, or £100k revenue month and, you ge

Retail sales agency and baby brand - a match made in he... Molzi began and ended its short life as very different businesses. Not just in terms of revenue and people, but actually the fundamental concept and services that we offered (and still offer today, just called Brainlabs instead!). I’ll do a blog soon that goes through the original Molzi business plan in detail, so you can see how important it is to have a plan, but how possible it is to deviate from it once you start