Georgina Smith

As a Founder, nobody warned you that "building something real" would feel this messy. The undertones and side glances from your family, friends, peers and colleagues, slight tuts as if to say the dream feels just too big too dream. And if you're waiting for the moment it feels under control, forget it. You might be waiting a long time, like a very long time. Each stage will bring a new set of chaos as that's just what change does - each and every time. You're fast-tracking change so it's best...

Today, AI seems the most lucrative (yet to be seen profitable) industry, where the majority of the world's economies are shaping their future strategic economic, financial and structural builds. In fact if you have the tools and a great pitch deck, you can receive a fairly chunky backing from an investor or an EU institution within Europe. With such crushing demand for innovation, the EU Commission itself also just opened a call to unlock more than €30 billion in AI infrastructure investment...

The most valuable math you can learn is how to calculate the future cost of your current decision. Not by reviewing the 'cost' of that decision today: the monthly salary, the safer bet or sticking to the status quo. Yet the real cost of that decision in six months from now, when a shortcut, a delay, the procrastination you took has compounded into a longer journey, an avoidable rebuild or that daily sinking feeling that you should be somewhere else, doing something else. And this 'current...