Posts by Liam Redmond
5 ways to spot burnout in your team before it spreads
If you’ve ever looked around your company and noticed deadlines slipping, enthusiasm fading, or once-reliable team members becoming unusually quiet, you may be seeing the early signs of burnout. The challenge for founders is that burnout rarely arrives all at once. It starts subtly, often disguised as a temporary dip in motivation or the natural…
Read MoreNasdaq, S&P end lower as tech stocks fall
Published Thu, Jun 25, 2026 · 05:43 AM [NEW YORK] The Nasdaq and S&P 500 closed lower on Wednesday (Jun 24), dragged by tech stocks on nagging concerns about high-flying valuations, but falling crude prices boosted airlines and other travel stocks and the Dow finished higher. Oil prices fell to their lowest since the start…
Read MoreEuropean shares tread water as Iran uncertainty weighs, Rheinmetall slumps
Published Thu, Jun 25, 2026 · 05:30 AM [BENGALURU] European shares were muted on Wednesday (Jun 24) as investors assessed developments in the US-Iran negotiations, while defence group Rheinmetall dropped after Germany scrapped a landmark frigate programme. The pan-European Stoxx 600 index closed 0.1 per cent higher, while Germany’s benchmark DAX index ended down 0.6…
Read More6 things your team actually hears when you say “We’ll figure it out”
Every founder has said it. A customer asks for a feature you haven’t built yet. A key hire falls through. Revenue comes in lower than expected. The roadmap suddenly looks more like a rough sketch than a plan. In moments like these, “we’ll figure it out” can feel like the most honest thing you can…
Read More7 things first hires teach you about yourself as a leader
The day you make your first hire feels like a milestone. You’ve proven that your business needs more than just your own effort to keep growing. But what many founders don’t realize is that hiring your first employee isn’t just a test of your company’s systems. It’s a test of you. When you’re building solo,…
Read More4 daily check-ins that keep overachievers from imploding
If you’re building a company, leading a team, or juggling a side hustle while trying to create financial freedom, you’ve probably experienced a strange contradiction. The harder you work toward your goals, the easier it becomes to lose sight of yourself. Many ambitious founders wear exhaustion like a badge of honor. Calendars fill up, notifications…
Read More5 team dynamics that quietly predict company culture collapse
Every founder worries about product-market fit, cash runway, and customer acquisition. Far fewer spend enough time examining the subtle team dynamics that shape culture long before problems become obvious. The reality is that culture rarely collapses overnight. It erodes gradually through patterns that seem manageable in the moment but become deeply embedded over time. If…
Read MoreStop Starting Agencies No One Needs Anymore
Building a nine-figure agency isn’t about hustle alone. It’s about solving a problem that people actually care about. The past two years have been rough for growth-stage companies and even rougher for the agencies serving them. My take is simple: stop launching services that no one is asking for and start proving value fast. The…
Read MoreUS online spending hits US$8.3 billion as Amazon Prime Day kicks off, Adobe says
Published Wed, Jun 24, 2026 · 10:01 PM ONLINE shopping among shoppers on the first day of Amazon’s Prime Day rose 5.3 per cent from a year earlier to US$8.3 billion across US retailers, Adobe Analytics said on Wednesday (Jun 24). The four-day shopping event, which started on Tuesday and is being held earlier than…
Read MoreWall St subdued as tech steadies, Micron earnings in focus
Published Wed, Jun 24, 2026 · 09:45 PM [NEW YORK] Wall Street’s main indexes were muted on Wednesday (Jun 24), after two straight sessions of declines, as technology shares steadied after a sharp sell-off this week and investors awaited Micron’s earnings. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 6.1 points, or 0.01 per cent, at the…
Read MoreBinance vows to stay in Europe despite licence setback
The company has one week to secure a licence before its current permission to operate in Europe expires Published Wed, Jun 24, 2026 · 09:16 PM [PARIS/BERLIN] Crypto platform Binance intends to stay in the European Union and will make a fresh push for permission to operate there, a senior executive told Reuters, after its…
Read MoreMeta, Microsoft lead US$850 billion boom in data centre leases
Mark Zuckerberg has said his company will spend hundreds of billions of dollars on AI infrastructure by the end of the decade Published Wed, Jun 24, 2026 · 08:07 PM META Platforms and Microsoft each committed tens of billions of dollars in additional data centre leases in their most recent quarters, adding to the massive…
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