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In this 20th edition of Brighton Dynamic:

• You'll hear how Alice helps people negotiate profitable contracts.
• You'll discover a locally made product that's making more than £2 million a year helping people to make proposals better.
• You'll find 9 local events to meet creative, technical & business folk in the area.

If you're in the early stages of building a SaaS, or have a software business that feels a bit stuck you might want to book 20 minutes with Jon. He's on a mission to help more Sussex-based software businesses get to £1 million revenue per year.

Meet Alice Dewar-Mills

Alice Dewar-Mills, is a seasoned commercial director and the founder of Looking Glass Solutions. From her early start at Rolls-Royce during her placement year to her successful stint as a remote worker for nearly 15 years, Alice's journey is a treasure trove of insights and practical knowledge.

• Understand Alice's philosophy that contracts are just conversations and shouldn't be daunting.
• Get to know her plans for helping small business owners to make better use of contracts.
• Delve into her work-life balance strategies.

Jon recently worked with Alice on one of his client's SaaS businesses. She helped create a far better process and starting contract for the team. They're now far more confident about negotiating high-value deals with customers that outgrow self-service plans.

This episode will leave you equipped with a renewed perspective on contracts, negotiation, and remote work.

​Listen to the interview or read the transcript​

​Learn more about Looking Glass Solutions​

Check out Better Proposals

One of Better Proposals founders, Adam Hempenstall, grew up in Southwick, near Brighton.

At the end of last year Adam shared that their revenue was over $2.5 million per year with over 8,000 customers and a team of 24. It took them 6 years of working 100% remote to reach this.

As well as building a great product that "helps you make professional proposals in half the time", they take marketing seriously.

Hundreds of thousands of people each month find Better Proposals when searching for terms like "web design proposal template". Over 200,000 of them in total have signed up for a trial or subscribed to their mailing list.

Better Proposals is currently ranked 18th on our list of successful Sussex SaaS. Know some we're missing? Disagree with the rank? Hit reply to let us know.

Also let us know if you're a customer of BetterProposals. Jon would love to ask you a few (easy!) questions.

9 Local Events:​
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​Show and Tell — Weds 14th, 12:30pm — The Skiff

5 minute talks + Q&A. Any member can talk ... or just come along to watch. Work projects, side hustles, introductions, requests for help or collaboration

Questions: find @tom or @carolinebeavon on Slack

= DOODLE CLUB — Weds 14th June, 6:30pm — The Skiff

A monthly night of guided sketchbook doodling and arty fun. + you'll get a free sketchbook to get you started (just let us know you are coming so we order enough).

Questions: find @carolinebeavon or @Jo on Slack

​How to Level Up as a Developer — Weds 14th, 6–8pm — Pizza Pilgrims / Hybrid
At PHP Sussex Simon Downes will talk: “From hobbyist to Senior Developer and beyond; in this talk we’ll be taking a look at how levels can be defined and how you can progress your career through those levels. We’ll be talking about both the technical and soft skills you’ll need, as well as how to obtain them.”

​The Farm Freelancers Networking (weekly) — Weds 14th, 8–11pm — Battle of Trafalgar
Freelancer or want to be? Come and chat with lots of other freelancers and swap work leads, get help for any problems you might have, and just enjoy making jokes with people who understand being self employed.

​JavaScript Brighton — Thurs 15th — 8–10pm — The Walrus pub
Come along and meet like minded individuals, to discuss any and / or all aspects of the JavaScript world

​CARNiVAL — Sat 17th — 12–5pm — Lighthouse
BRiGHTBLACK are running a FREE event for all women and marginalised genders of colour to play around with and understand digital creative tools for making the stories we want to, the way we want to tell them. From live performance, film to music, video games, VR, AR, animation + more.

​Cinematic Synthesis: A Journey into Generative AI — Thurs 22nd — 9am-10am — The FuseBox
Rise and shine with Wired Sussex and delve into the fascinating world of Generative AI in our special breakfast session. This event is an introduction to the powerful tools and possibilities that AI opens up in creative storytelling and is the perfect opportunity for both beginners and seasoned professionals.

​Brighton R — June Meetup — Thurs 22nd — 6pm-9pm — Location TBC
No details yet, but the R group doesn’t meet very often so it’s worth keeping an eye on their page to see where they meet.

​Brighton JUG — Summer Social — Thurs 29th — 6pm-8pm — 13–14 Foundry Street
We will be taking a break from our usual schedule of talks to get together with our sister group, Brighton Kotlin, with an IRL social and kick off the summer with a few drinks at the Foundary pub in Brighton

Every reply we get makes a difference!

If you like what you read from us, let us know and we'll see if we can power through to 50 editions of Brighton Dynamic. And do send us your tips - which people, companies and events do you think 2,000+ people like you would like to hear about?
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Until next week,

Jon, Caroline & Paul

PS Keep an eye out for details of a new gathering of people working on software businesses. Some details in this tweet from Jon.

If you liked this you might like to:

• ​Try working from The Skiff - meet the coworkers you always wanted.
• ​Work with Jon - build a £1 million a year software business.
• ​Work with Caroline - communicate information with graphics.
• ​Work with Paul - make your Google Ads more effective.
• ​Join us at Brighton Farm - meet freelancers at the pub on Wednesday evening.

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