Knowing Your Market Size Understanding your market size is a key element of building a business that investors will take interest in. Here, we explain the Total Addressable Market, the Serviceable Addressable Market and the Serviceable Obtainable Market: TAM, SAM and SOM. Evaluating what’s known as TAM, SAM and SOM…

Founding a business on your own is a brave move, but bravery isn’t always rewarded, or necessarily the right move. NDRC’s portfolio of companies sees those with multiple founders performing higher than those with sole founders. Alan Costello, venture leader at NDRC, discusses some elements you may want to consider…

Who do we thank As we begin to lift restriction, thoughts will turn to societal and economic futures. We can also realise that this is not the end — until we get widespread vaccine, herd immunity and effective mechanisms for next time, or even the next surge, this wont be…

I wrote a blog recently that described some of the best startup books and management books that I’ve come across that I often recommend. I got a lot of interest on LinkedIn and Twitter — so thank you for that! I thought I’d follow it up with a review of…

Being in a bookclub I’ve been thinking about book clubs and my old prejudices about them. Perhaps I always thought that they were a conduit for a group of women, usually moms, coming together for once a month, have a glass of wine, a natter and a social catchup. …

A blog on OLAD Grouping the ideas This is a blog about adding one learning a day, a system that I set up in 2018, to try and learn and capture one new thing that I learned, observed, or had insight about every single day. I tracked on Excel, and…

A good start to a Startup reading list (but only a start!) I have been a business book club nerd for many years. I currently have a collection of perhaps 1000 business books, mainly autobiographies of people and companies and innovative and strategy processes. …

How things move faster in a crisis (and why thats frustrating afterwards) I’m thinking about our current global Covid crisis. I’m thinking about how much activity has been stimulated across multiple realms. …

“We might already be half way through but our long term thinking is only beginning” How Corvid19 is mimicking our society, how we will need to heal and a plea for common sense in a dangerous future 14th March 2020 Speed and Change The Corvid-19 virus grew from a single…