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Deep dive: what a small team's budget actually looks like after a year

Twelve months of real numbers from a team of six: where the money went, which lines we never questioned, and the three we finally cut.

Ida Mercer 1 min read
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Ida Mercer

I write Azimuth from Rotterdam. Before this I ran operations at two small companies and spent a lot of that time watching good teams make avoidable mistakes under time pressure - my own included. This newsletter is the notebook I wish I'd had.

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