I’ve always been a design guy. Always more comfortable on the front-end.
I could tip-toe my way around back-end code and carefully fit my HTML and CSS around it. But actually wiring up a database...
Have you figured out your “people” strategy?
Meaning, your strategy for hiring your first teammates without wiping out your cashflow or taking on serious debt?
And your strategy for scaling your te...
You’re spinning in circles.
“Should I change my product? Shut it down? Stay the course? Pivot? If I go this way, then what might happen? And if I go that way, what will be different?”
Product indec...
When you're designing the user experience for a software product, like a SaaS, these UX and UI hacks can help users leapfrog past the onboarding phase.
Update 2019: Since the time I wrote this article, I launched a new product called Sunrise KPI, which makes it much easier to collect all of your key metrics in one place and have your numbers email...
Do you use Drip for email marketing automation tool? I do. My team and I love it.
The automation. The possibilities!
There’s a lot you could do with Drip, but you’re probably wondering what you sho...
This happens all the time, right?
Distractions. Those fires you just have to put out right now, as fast as you can(!) you can get right back to working on your business.
What if distractions were ...
Entrepreneurship is hard.
Tell me something I don’t know, right?
But seriously. This shit’s hard and seems to get harder, even as you reach new levels of success.
There are the external forces tha...
I wrote an article about something—a word, really—that’s been popping in my mind a lot this year. That word is:
Anti-Agency
The more I work to refine my productized service business, the more I re...
Smart entrepreneurs are terrified of risk.
That’s a good thing. In fact, I believe entrepreneurs should actively develop this fear. Nurture it. Use it.
In 2016, I decided to start building a new so...
It occurred to me that honing my skills as a manager of people is probably the biggest area of focus for me personally in my business these past few years. I also receive a lot of questions about ...