Category: Founder Notes

Personal reflections, lessons, founder thinking, and project scars.

Founder Notes

From Media Producer to Cultural Architect: My Accidental Career

I never planned to become a cultural strategist. I planned to tell stories. Turns out…

Founder Notes

The Day I Realized Cultural Export Wasn’t About Culture

It took 100 rejected pitches to understand what British audiences actually wanted from…

Founder Notes

Why Cultural Projects Fail — And the Failures That Are Actually Preventable

Most cultural project failures aren't mysterious. They follow predictable patterns…

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What I Learned the Day My Company Went Into Administration

The hardest day of my professional life taught me something I couldn't have learned any…

Founder Notes

How I Sold Chinese Lanterns to 2.65 Million British People

In 2013, I walked into the 100th venue in London and slid a proposal across the table…