Leadership
Working With Founders
A founder once slid my six-pager across the table and called it a fantasy. What five founders taught me about trust, bluntness, and conviction.
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Expert advice for leaders in software companies. Covering leadership, team performance, operational efficiency, and growth strategies to help you scale.
Fractional
What Is a Fractional Executive, and Why the Good Ones Are Not a Cost Play
Most buyers treat a fractional executive as a cheaper exec. The ones who hire for pattern recognition instead of the discount get far more back.
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Marketplace
Four Bets on Agentic Commerce
Major e-commerce players are now trying to crack buying inside an LLM. Four companies. Four completely different bets. They cannot all be right.
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Product Management
How to Run a Product Review Meeting
Steve Kaufer ran TripAdvisor's product review personally. Four minutes. Real specs. No slide decks. Here's how it worked - and how to build your own version.
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fractional leadership
How Fractional Started (Before It Had a Name)
In 2009, I was charging $800 a day, working four days a month per client, and had a hard rule: no more than four clients at a time. Nobody called it fractional. The model was already there.
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AI
The Big LeClawski: How I Built AI Agents with OpenClaw
I built a team of AI agents to run my fractional advisory practice. They handle tasks autonomously, on a seven-year-old laptop. Here's exactly how I did it, what broke, and what it costs. With profound apologies to Claire Vo, Lenny Rachitsky, and the Coen Brothers
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