lean startup
Secrets to Success in Building a SaaS Company
Most SaaS companies plateau between $5M and $20M ARR for the same reasons. Here is what separates the ones that break through.
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lean startup
How to Be an Entrepreneur Without Leaving Your Job
In 2009 I started taking advisory clients at $800 a day, four days a month, with a four-client cap. No plan. That is how the fractional practice started.
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product management
Empowering Teams and Leaders Through Transparent Leadership
When I bought out the Embarc exec team, I told the remaining team the truth about where we stood. That honesty was the first step in rebuilding.
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product management
Finding Simplicity: Reflections on The Laws of Simplicity
Arkadium had a new ad unit that raised revenue and quietly destroyed the user experience. A complexity problem disguised as a monetization decision.
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agile software development
Agile Transparency: Empowering Teams through Scrum
Transparency in a product team means making trade-offs visible before decisions get made, not after they go wrong.
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customer development
How Online Communication Can Affect Work Relationships
At PermissionTV, engineering and PS sat in the same office and still managed a complete communication breakdown. Not through malice. Through Slack habits.
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