The secret start-up: Part One
Over the coming weeks, we chronicle the highs and lows of starting a business through the eyes of a young entrepreneur who lived both the start-up dream and the nightmare
Part 1: laid off
It was 1.30pm on a Friday when I got the email from the HR department. Can you come to a meeting at 3.30, it read. A bit strange, I thought. I rarely got emails from any other department, let alone HR. Leaning across to my nearest colleague, I told him about the email.
“HR meeting at 3.30. What’s that all about?”
He took a pause.
“You’re being paranoid, man. ...
