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Double Down, Pivot, or Walk Away? (opens the original)
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I celebrated my wife’s birthday in Vegas last week. (Along with getting my Seattle house ready to sell, this is why the last couple weeks I have been quiet here).I’m not a big gambler, but I left Vegas net $ positive by being systematic at the blackjack table: disciplined “by the book,” selective about when to double down, and willing to walk away when up, fighting off the urge to keep playing with “house money.” We booked a couple of shows in advance: live comedy and Wizard of Oz at the Sphere
When Slower Growth Isn't a Sales Problem (opens the original)
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The twenty-deal comparison from last week’s post (e.g. Test 1) answers the question: has the buyer, the problem, or the trigger (e.g. the event that made them buy now) actually changed. If it has, two more tests/questions, one internal & one external, help discern what you’re really looking at.Test 2: Does Your Organization Actually Agree?Ask your product/tech, sales, and marketing leads, separately, to describe your current best-fi
The Twenty-Deal Test (opens the original)
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A healthy pipeline hides a lot. Deals are closing. The board deck reads fine. If that’s all you looked at there’d be no reason to ask anything else. But in speaking with venture-backed founders a couple of years past the scramble-for-any-customer stage an unsettling feeling comes up more than I’d expect: something about the deals lately feels different, and nobody can quite say what.A few explanations always come up, and each sounds reasonable by itself. Sales cycles stretched a bit, sure, but t
Seattle Tech Week Was About AI. The Best Parts Weren't. (opens the original)
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The panels were sharp, but what stuck came from hallway conversations, not slides.Last week I attended Seattle Tech Week for the first time, as a person, not as an operator running point for a company. That shift in vantage let me follow my nose: listen deeply, embrace some randomness in who I met, and skip the urge to walk in with an agenda or quantifiable outcomes.The framework that stuckThe clearest piece of thinking all week came from @Nizar t (PitchBook) and (Madrona), during a live podcast
Product-Market Fit Doesn't Break. It Accrues Debt. (opens the original)
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Last week’s piece on how companies quietly lose product-market fit picked up a reaction worth sitting with. A reader responding to it put language on something the original post gestured at but never quite named: “Drift is debt. Debt that goes largely unnoticed.”That’s a better metaphor than the one I used. A “close enough” deal, a softened pitch, a feature scoped for a customer who isn’t quite the ICP: none of it registers as a mistake, because none of it is one in isolation. Each is a small lo
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