Blog tagged as Business Strategy

The Decision You Keep Delaying Is Already Costing You

You do not need more information. You do not need more time. You need to stop finding reasons to avoid the decision you already know you need to make.

You know what the decision is. You do not need someone to name it for you. It is the person who h...

Why Your Biggest Competitor Is the Version of You from Two Years Ago

The market that your strategy was built for no longer exists in quite the same form. The clients you built it for have evolved. The question is whether your business has evolved with them — or whether you are still fighting with yes...

The Strategy You Never Actually Had

Most founders confuse having a direction with having a strategy. One gets you moving. The other tells you where you are going and why — and without it, all the movement in the world just gets you somewhere you did not mean to be.

At the end of every year, the founde...

Why Smart Founders Make the Worst Decisions Under Pressure

Intelligence is not a pressure valve. The founders who make the best decisions in crisis are not the ones with the highest IQ, they are the ones who have built the right structures before the pressure arrived.

The funding fell through on a Tue...

Why Your First Ten Customers Are Your Most Important Business Decision

Most founders think the first customers are just revenue. They are not. They are a strategic choice that determines the direction of the entire business for years to come.

Every startup gets to make one set of founding decisions th...