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Craft+Work London: Startup stories and lessons learned [#152]

I enjoyed Craft+Work - six speakers shared startup stories and lessons learned over the last year (cue cards, no slides!). Vibrant and transparent talks, which was refreshing.

Fun to gamify it, too—after giving us all a prompt to reflect on, each speaker had to pick a card from the School of Life card set and answer the question.

It was mainly e-commerce folks in the Shopify ecosystem, so lots of agency talk that went over my head, but fascinating to hear from companies large and small in a different industry and see we're all struggling with the same things. 

It felt a bit weird to take notes when people were being so open and vulnerable (it's not recorded), so here are a few observations on the bigger themes of the day from the talks I heard, plus some prompt questions to ask yourself at the end.

Ellen Donnelly, The Ask

On knowing yourself and what game you're playing (financial success, freedom, or fulfilment). Having all three is hard - only a couple of folks raised their hands to t…