OCCASIONAL WRITING
Thoughts worth
writing down.
Notes from twenty years of building — product, fundraising, hiring. No schedule; written when something is worth saying.
The features you should never have built.
A founder of six companies on the features whose ongoing obligations outweigh the problem they solve — five that deserve a harder conversation, and an obligation test to run before you prioritize.
How investors will read your company before you walk in.
Investors form a view of your company before the first meeting. A founder of six companies on auditing the signals they read, finding the contradictions, and writing the rejection memo first.
When to hire your first real VP (and when it’s a fractional hire).
Hire a VP when a function needs sustained leadership and decisions bottleneck at the founder. A fractional executive fits a bounded mandate. A working fractional CPO/CTO on telling the two apart.
