The Unstuck Entrepreneur
For early stage founders who feel stuck between traction and scale. Helping you fix what's broken so you can have repeatable revenue. 5x founder/4 exits for 28 yrs with $400M in total exit value. Now investing and building my 6th startup.
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The Stage You Thought You Finished is Probably the One You're Still In (opens the original)
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Where I am right nowFor the next articles , this section will be a constant. I hope to be as personal as I can be so I’ll start with a little update about me.This past week, I spent more time in our Tre’dish warehouse than at my desk. I was dispatching and standing in the middle of it all as orders went out. Now that the summer is over, we’re getting more recurring orders than ever and with them come new operational problems. You can’t spot an operations problem in a spreadsheet, but you can see
Dear Founder Who Feels Lost (opens the original)
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I know this feeling. I don’t mean the tidy version people talk about at conferences, the one where you lose your way and find it again by the end of the story. I’m talking about the real one. The one where you look up on an ordinary day and realize the plan you started with is gone and you are not entirely sure when it left.You had a plan. A good one. You thought about it for some time before you committed to it. You knew what you were building and who it was for and roughly how it would go. And
My 1st Forbes Article as a Contributor: How AI Is Changing the Pre-Seed Funding Playbook for Founders (opens the original)
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A little bit of news to share…About a month ago, I was invited by Forbes to become a Forbes Contributor, writing about startups, entrepreneurship, AI, innovation and how the landscape for founders is rapidly evolving.My first reaction was, that's pretty cool. I do have a LOT of things I can write about over a 30 year entrepreneurial career.I've
You Have Revenue and You're Still Stuck. This Is the Map Out. (opens the original)
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A founder sat across from me not long ago and said the thing I’ve heard in some form more times than I can count. We have revenue but we’re stuck. Nothing is compounding. What’s wrong?I could hear in the way he asked that he already sensed the answer was going to be uncomfortable. He wasn’t panicking. He was doing the harder thing, looking at a company that appeared to be working from the outside and asking whether it was actually pointed in the right direction. That is usually the mark of a fou
Do This if You Don't Have Repeatable Revenue Yet (opens the original)
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Just recently, one of our readers sent a message saying he noticed that our posts shifted to fundraising. There was no complaint in it, just genuine curiosity about what had changed. If you’ve been noticing that as well, we’re actually happy you noticed. That tells us you’ve been following our work.The posts shifted because it’s primarily following my journey as we’re building our startup Tre’dish while at the same time providing value to other founders like you. Unstuck is designed to follow my
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