Operating notes
Short, usable pieces on operating cadence, goals, and investor communication. No growth hacks, no frameworks you will abandon in three weeks.
An honest way to choose a CRM as a founder: the four criteria that matter at under thirty people, where each category of tool breaks, and how to decide in an afternoon.
Read the piece →The short list of CRM features a founder-led team genuinely needs — and the long list of enterprise features that will quietly cost you a week of setup.
Read the piece →Deal health scoring, follow-up tasks written for you, stage SLA timers and forecast analytics — now live on the Operator and Command plans.
Read the piece →A practical weekly operating rhythm for founders: one planning block, one review block, and a written update — plus how to keep it alive past week three.
Read the piece →A repeatable structure for monthly investor updates — metrics, wins, misses, asks — plus what to include, what to cut, and how to keep sending them.
Read the piece →How small teams get the focus benefit of OKRs without the ceremony: how many objectives to set, how to write key results, and how to check in weekly.
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