Posts
I’m in the process of organizing all my past posts by category and from most important to least. These aren’t time stamped blog posts, but lessons learned in building companies. I’ll often go back and update them as I evolve my thinking. More to come.
Tools
These are the tools I use in every phase of the journey. They take time to understand, practice, and adopt but are the same tools I come back to no matter the issue.
- The Brief – How To Make And Launch Anything
- Customer Journey – How To Make And Use One
- Business Updates – How To Write Them
Starting Companies
How I start new companies or products / services. It doesn’t matter if it’s a new company or new initiatives inside of an existing one. The process is the same.
Running Companies
What I’ve learned in taking companies from $0-50M in revenue. I update these over time as I learn more.
- Raising Money – Should you do it?
- Marketing – Without hiring marketers
- Delivery – The place startups fall down in winning
- Finding Your Quadrant – How to differentiate to win
- Market Narrative – How to find your tidal wave
- No Surprises – What This Really Means
- Growth – How To Manage It
Building Teams
How I try to build and empower teams. I haven’t grown teams fast enough to say that developing talent doesn’t matter. This is how I do it.
- Who Owns What – How To Organize Startup Teams
- Developing Functional Teams – your building blocks
- Style Of Play – What And How To Develop One
- Project To Hire – How To Hire And Get It Right
- Team Off-sites
- Coaching Your Team
- CEO Said Syndrome
Personal Side
People don’t talk enough about the personal struggle of leading people. These are the stories and struggles I’ve gone through in leading others.