COVID-19 Economic Recovery & Metrics
When I work with a new CEO client, I do two things. First, I ask them to explain the business to me in qualitative terms — Who is the customer? What problem do you solve …
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The COVID-19 Scalability Problem
Most of my client work over the past decade has been centered around helping software companies scale up to become bigger companies. My work helps clients create surges in market demand and then adapt to …
Great Depression 2020? (Part 2)
In a previous article, I shared a little history about the Great Depression of the 1930s and explained why the causes of the depression back then would be unlikely to repeat today. However, in the …
COVID-19: Local vs. Global Optimization
In looking at the COVID-19 response globally and here in the United States, I can’t help but remember a concept I learned in calculus class around local versus global minimums and maximums. While I don’t …
The Trend Is Your “Friend”
I’m told there’s a saying on Wall Street that goes, “The trend is your friend.” I’m not a banker nor an asset manager, so I can’t vouch for its validity in that context. However, I …
Coronavirus: Who gets a hospital bed?
Background: By day, I’m a CEO coach for founders of SaaS companies. By night, I volunteer with my county as an emergency worker, search & rescue team member, and emergency medical responder. Much of my …