The Pragmatic Strategist

Opportunities in Chaos

As the old joke says, “There are two kinds of people in the world…” In my corner of the universe, there are those who love working in/with startups and those who don’t. Those to love it never question why someone else likes it. Those who have either never done it or who have low tolerance [...]

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20/20 Hindsight – Transitioning a Services Company to a Product Company

This is something I’ve been thinking about more and more recently. The fact that we started off as a services company is what allowed us to get started and to avoid having to rely on outside funding. But it was transitioning to a product company that allowed us to grow and scale, and to ultimately [...]

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Awesome Day

I find it amazing that the times when I typically realize I am having the best days are the days when I am peddle-to-the-metal, no-holds-barred, hair-on-fire busy as hell. Why is that? Today was spectacular… and I’m not entirely sure I can adequately quantify precisely why. I think the bottom line was that I had [...]

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