Assess, Decide, and Act Cycle
Over the last two years, I’ve been active in my local emergency response volunteer community. I’ve participated in several mass casualty training exercises (e.g., earthquakes, plane crashes, collapsed building structures). In several of those exercises,
What SaaS CFOs Do
The topic of when, how, and why to hire your first CFO has come up not once, but three different times this week. Once a business crosses $2 million in sales, there is a strong
Charlie Munger & Mental Models
Warren Buffett’s right-hand man is Charlie Munger. I’ve read transcripts from several of Munger’s speeches, and I really love the multidisciplinary way he approaches investment decisions. When he cites the idea of market niches as
You Win Some, You Learn Some…
Most people see the world through the lens of success vs. failures, or winners vs. losers. While our world certainly has competitive aspects to it, it’s worthwhile to ask the following: Is it useful? Is
The Sniff Test
I’ve worked with a number of high-performing CEOs over the years. The best of them all had a unique skill that’s far less common with founder CEOs. It’s the ability to manage via the “sniff
Nail It, Then Scale It
A lot of SaaS companies are focused on scaling their business. There is a time and place to scale; and most of the time, founder CEOs get the timing wrong. The tech community ethos is