Business

There is nothing more valuable than your time. If you’re a startup founder that becomes even more important, especially if they are lean, mean and bootstrapped. When you’re starting things from the ground up, you have to be exceptionally focused. Coincidently, as your brand grows, there will this polar pull that grows exponentially faster than…

You can find a lot of discussions about the selling process, but you don’t find a lot of conversation of power dynamics. Background: In 2017 I sold my company to GoDaddy. I was an executive at GoDaddy for three years post-acquisition where I spent time with CorpDev talking to, and buying companies, and have spent…

A colleague used to say: Tony, you are exactly what they mean when they say “with enough brute force you can accomplish anything.” – A colleague I would laugh, but inside it would hurt. I remember thinking how it simplified, diminished, the work I was doing. It was always in the context of my ability…

Like many, I have found myself enthralled with what happened at BaseCamp this past week. Mainly because it affects me personally. No, I don’t work at BaseCamp, but I do have startups, have operated and exited a startup, and like Jason and David, share very similar beliefs in how to lead teams and build companies.…

Starting a company is excruciatingly difficult. I am convinced you have to have a predisposition for risk and punishment. No one cares, until they all care, and even that is short lived – nothing more than a blip on the radar in retrospect. That being said, running a company is in a different sphere in…

I once sat in a meeting where a leader was making a case to hire another 50 people on their team in the coming year. It’s the only way we’ll hit our targets, achieve our goals they exclaimed. I remember sitting there thinking – “wow, wonder what they’re all going to do.” A year later…