What Growth Founders Need to Add to EOS
EOS is a proven operating system—a framework built for stability, not for answering the novel questions that arise when founders are building for growth. If you have big ambitions and unanswered questions, you need to bolt on something more. It starts with the right mindset and the right tools.
Journey of a Founder: Series B to Series C—Scaling Challenges and Leadership Imperatives
Every startup that reaches Series B has proven something, but sustaining growth, scaling teams, and building durable systems is a whole new test. What changes at this stage, and how do founders evolve to meet it? In this founder/operator roundtable, we dive into the next phase of the journey: from Series B to Series C. We cover what shifts in mindset, systems, and leadership.
Event 2—Part 2: Hosted by John Gauch and Jimmy Malik.
Journey of a Founder: Series A Is a Reckoning—Operator Imperatives for Getting to Series B
The Journey of a Founder series continues. You’ve raised a Series A. You’ve got early traction and capital to grow. But now the real work begins. What does it feel like to lead a company through this phase, and what actually helps you reach Series B? In this founder/operator roundtable, we explore what happens after the early wins, from hiring and trust-building to evolving your founder role and avoiding the ops pitfalls that can sink momentum. This is the messy middle, what I sometimes call “the reckoning.”
Event 2—Part 1: Hosted by John Gauch and Jimmy Malik.
Navigating Startup Fundraising: Insights from an Experienced COO
If you're new to startup investing, or developing a fundraising plan and want to make sure you're not missing anything important, this blog post is for you. Read about essential startup fundraising strategies: crafting pitches, building investor relationships, exploring funding options, and more.
What I Need to Know to Make Investor Referrals
These are the six things I need to know to make investor referrals for CEOs and founding team members when we haven’t worked together before. Answering these six questions is also a valuable shorthand for quickly vetting any new business idea.
How Startups Can Make the Best Use of Lawyers
No startup wants to get bogged down in legal management. A principled proactive approach can keep your legal house in order and avoid pitfalls that will slow the company down. Apply the framework described in this blog post to strike a balance between cost, speed and quality for legal services.
How to Learn Jobs to be Done
Find out how to get started with Jobs to be Done, do your first JTBD interviews, get colleagues on board with the concept, and deepen your outstanding of the framework, methods and tools--to start and grow a business and align a team.
Estimating Product Market Opportunity
I often scratch my head trying to understand the market opportunity described in many startup investor presentations. I’m not saying it’s easy to measure by any means, and in this post I lay out an alternative way to to think about and calculate this popular figure.