How a young founder grew his freelance website-building business into an agency with $3.5M revenue 👇theygotacquired.com/agency/9…

In accordance with ancient tradition (and the Port of London Thames Byelaws) a bundle of straw is dangled from Millennium Bridge to warn shipping of work under the bridge (we’re not making this up, honest). Robert, from our rope access contractor CAN Ltd, does the honours.

We shut down FrontRow 2 months ago, and are returning the remaining capital to our investors. The last 4 years were a lot. Here's a bit about what happened, what I learnt, and more importantly how I felt ->

Ryanair CEO Michael O'Leary was hit with a pie by environmental activists during a press conference in Brussels. The activists can be heard shouting "stop the pollution" before throwing the cake at O'Leary trib.al/SaUW2RR

Execution Is Everything You can read all the business books and listen to all the podcasts but the real learning happens when you start building. Execution isn't just a phase. It's everything. Startup ideas are worth zero without it.

Series A founder: Our revenue is 3x what we were a year ago, with 0.5x the burn. I cut everything that was not essential, and took a first principles approach to every expense and figuring out the most efficient growth channels. The powerful combination of revenue growth and Opex reduction has got us here. We have half the cash we've ever raised, still on our balance sheet. Founders: it's absolutely possible to grow strongly while shrinking burn. Reject the sunk cost fallacy and take a zero based budgeting approach - justify all expenses starting from zero, versus starting with the previous budget and adjusting it as needed.