2025 marks the end of a seven-year project I had with Neil Phillipson. We built a garden building company called Kani House, which started back in early 2018. At the time, Neil was already building astronomical observatories. We met at an expo, I was promoting Yazaroo and he was Outsideology….

Starting a business on a small budget demands low cost, but far-reaching marketing tactics. The most logical place is to start by creating evergreen blog posts. Information that provides tangible value to potential customers: people who are actively looking for a solution we provide in Google. It will come as…

We have been building Comus for over a year. The first version had no graphical interface at all. It was managed entirely through PHP. That was deliberate. We wanted to test the concept and prove the market before sinking serious time into a full product. No point polishing something nobody…

Something I’ve learned over the years, working with lots of designers, and particularly young designers,  is that there’s a real obsession with perfection in the design world. In most creative agencies, everyone wants to produce the best work they possibly can, and they want everything to be absolutely spot on….

One of the key things I learned early on while developing Comus was something I really wasn’t expecting to learn. In fact, it’s something you’d never assume going in. We assumed that everyone we worked with would broadly share our vision, or at least understand what we were trying to…

So any logical person looking at the events industry at the moment would probably see an industry that is still trying to recover from the pandemic. An industry that is becoming ever more regulated with new legislation such as Martyn’s Law coming into effect next year, and an industry that…

In August 2024, Alex Clarke and I had this great idea for a business. We would build a ticketing platform and make millions. It was so easy, so obviously a no-brainer that it couldn’t possibly fail. (Spoiler alert) It has not failed; quite the reverse actually. But fuck has it…

For years, I used social media. I joined Facebook in 2007, and at the time, it was great: a place where my uni friends and I shared photos and stories from the night before. Facebook, however, has slowly descended into a mess as businesses and advertising have taken over. The…