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Stephen Fleming posted in the group 'Bounce' – the place for developing ideas
What a good idea this is.
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Hi all, Enjoying the process, which has unlocked my creative mind. I can’t work out if this is a good or bad thing?! Here’s my dilemma, which may or may not be relevant to others. In short I would love to brand and sell myself to bring in that £500+ a day to put food on the table. My issue is, the more I do of the course, the more I’m fighting the ’big idea’. I can’t stop the notion of becoming the next big game changer. The next ’rightmove’ or dare I say it the next ’Amazon’ (no I’m not really that egotistical). I can see huge potential in disrupting the status quo, where my forecasts are in the millions rather than the thousands. Does this put me outside the visions of a portfolio career? Am I deluded, or is your vision that a portfolio career could indeed launch a seed or even pre-seed internet start-up? I can get the vision of someone with an established career and experience seeking to exploit day rate, NED roles, …
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Great question and insight steven reader! I will weigh in with my personal experience and story. I, like you am super ambitious and I want to not only change the world but I want to be very successful whilst doing it. I have a very varied portfolio career (MBTI coach, brand strategist, graphic designer), with all these skills I wanted to launch a start-up (which is where The Portfolio Collective comes in). Although being the CMO & Co-Founder of TPC takes up a vast quantity of my time…
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Hi Steve,
You are not alone or weird. In my experience something like 1 in 3 portfolio professionals are planning to build something bigger, i.e. a company/ product/ team. They use the portfolio career to try out a few things and pay the bills simultaneously.
It doesn’t have to be either/ or. It can be ’both’.
Ben
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Hi Steven,
I am in a very similar position to you and as Ben said, I am looking at starting a Portfolio Career as a start and foundational point that could potentially grow into something bigger. I have similar high level ambitions and some big ideas but you have to start somewhere. As someone that has worked in multiple start-ups now, one of the key lessons I have learned is that you can make the best plan in the world but until you put it into practice it doesn’t matter… There w…
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Alex great reply… an author called Cal Newport talks about what you mention here known as ’the adjacent possible’. You work in a field intensely and get close to the ’edge’ of it – the edge where the innovation happens where you spot the opportunities of the future.
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I really love this concept of the adjacent possible laura – really resonates with me! Thanks for sending over… will check it out further!
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Hi Steve, a bit late to the party… but if you have a vision and ambition, absolutely pursue it!! Just use the philosophy of a portfolio career to support yourself and strategically build the relationships, skills, and knowledge that will give it even more chance of success. I can’t wait to hear more about your plans!!
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It came up in Monday’s session – the cognitive bias known as the Dunning-Kruger effect where your competence can drive some imposter syndrome at certain points.
If we can help anyone move out of the ’Valley of Despair’ and up the ’Slope of Enlightenment’ then we are doing our jobs well!
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Hello Everyone!
I am super happy to be part of this community! (Even if i still didn’t do my profile – coming up soon!! Cant wait to start connecting and meeting interesting people!)
For now, I am doing the catapult course while managing my first client consulting on exactly what i want. However im not set up for this kind of work yet and now doing a catch up big time!
Help please – Anyone here has a template of a freelance consultancy contract? Or knows a lawyer who could check one for me? Or how does this work?
Many thanks!! Silvia
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Hi Silvia, lovely introduction – so pleased to have you here 🙂
If you look in the participant’s folder for Module 8, you’ll see a sample ’Letter of Agreement’ which is a more informal way of making a working arrangement.
What you use depends on the nature of your work and the relationship you have. You could also check out RocketLawyer if you wanted something super quick and more formal checked over.
I would also ping a message to Lara Hayward who…
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I used lawdepot.co.uk’s independent contractor agreement template and then edited that slightly. There’s a 7-day free trial available
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Thank you very much both for the direction!
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Come on Steve. You’re the ’words’ man. Surely you can do better than ’good’!