Five companies. Two failures. One I still run.
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Operations, pricing, distribution and the unglamorous mechanics of building a company that survives.
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Five companies. Two failures. One I still run.
The legal mistakes I see founders make, and how to avoid the expensive ones.
Led 1,200 people through a currency crisis. Here is what leadership looked like.
Two decades on the other side of the loan application.
Investing in farms, processing and the value chain in northern Ghana.
Scaled a company from 12 to 400 people. Hiring was the hardest part.
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Who to hire first, why generalists beat specialists at this stage, how to interview when you have no HR, and the hires I regret.
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Our best salesperson became our worst sales manager. What I misunderstood about promotion, and how we fixed it without losing her.
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Who to hire first, why generalists beat specialists at this stage, how to interview when you have no HR, and the hires I regret.
Distributors, wholesalers, market queens, supermarkets and credit terms: the full route from factory to shelf, with the margins at each step.
The operating systems, management layers and painful transitions between 20, 50, 100 and 400 employees - with the templates I used.
Who to hire first, why generalists beat specialists at this stage, how to interview when you have no HR, and the hires I regret.
Leasing, hire purchase, bank loans and the true cost of a second-hand truck: financing a small fleet without drowning.
Our best salesperson became our worst sales manager. What I misunderstood about promotion, and how we fixed it without losing her.
Distributors, wholesalers, market queens, supermarkets and credit terms: the full route from factory to shelf, with the margins at each step.
The operating systems, management layers and painful transitions between 20, 50, 100 and 400 employees - with the templates I used.
Leasing, hire purchase, bank loans and the true cost of a second-hand truck: financing a small fleet without drowning.