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Hello 👋 and welcome to this week’s Hothouse Newsletter This issue is about the unglamorous but essential supports that make a design business sustainable - the pricing decisions, systems and structures, the management skills that quietly do their job day after day, long after the initial excitement has passed. 1. This week’s blog: Accidental CEOs: What Designers Are Never Taught About Running ...

Welcome to February. If you measured your business through January - tracked your activity, and benchmarked yourself against a plan -  you’ve already completed one twelfth of the year. That matters. Not because January was perfect, but because momentum has begun. This is the point where intention starts to harden into habit. Do this for another month or two and the effort required drops away - ...

Welcome 👋 If this week’s issue feels a little more boardroom than moodboard, that’s intentional. January is our final check on strategy and planning before heading out into the year. We’re making sure the foundations are sound, the numbers are understood, and the person at the helm knows where they’re going - and why. This isn’t about turning designers into accountants. It’s about making sure t...