Capital and capability: what a business partnership needs to clarify
Before capital and capability come together, agree what each side brings, who decides what and how progress is reviewed. Here is how.
Ideas for the business behind the vision.
Practical thinking on investment partnerships, business planning, governance and building ventures, from the team behind the Web Fuel Agency group.
From ambition to priorities: a more useful business plan
A useful business plan helps you make the next decision. How to turn ambition into a few owned priorities, with assumptions in plain sight.
Governance that supports decisions rather than creating paperwork
Governance should help a business make and record good decisions, not add paperwork. A proportionate approach that grows with the business.
The difference between group milestones and investor-return claims
A group milestone says what the group has done. An investor-return claim says what someone earned. Why the difference matters.
How specialist brands fit a holding-company model
In a holding-company model each brand runs its own market while the group provides capital, standards and shared capability. How it works.
A portfolio update only when the business and facts are approved
We publish a portfolio update only once the business has agreed and every fact is confirmed. Who approves, what we check and why some wait.