AÂ take-away from this great book. A year ago my long time friend Sean Tierney joined our company as our Dir. of Sales. After a few weeks he hands me a book and said something to the effect of “whether you know it or not, this is how you run the company”. I read most of …
The Authority should reside with the Responsibility. Read More »
It is pretty telling what sort of business most PE and VC’s are in when they send out blanket lead gen emails. It’s a business for them and startup founders are the customer. Shared this with some friends privately and of course a few got the same blanket email. Hi Joshua, I believe you’ve connected …
Let’s play a game: You have two lenses on the table in front of you. If you pick up the lens on the right and examine a random business you see it from the techpress/VC/SV point of view. If you pick up the lens on the left you see it through, I’d argue, a more …
Or healthcare, or stock options, or anything else listed in an employment contract. At Pagely we are a distributed team spread all over the world, working different shifts in different timezones. They are some of the most passionate and dedicated people I know and I am fortunate to work with them. As a business owner …
Over the life of our business Pagely we’ve seen a few term sheets from potential acquirers (None that we’ve accepted). There are few things I’ve seen in all of them that as a founder stuck out to me. Cash is not really Cash until it is in your hand. We’ll use some made up number’s here …
Acquisition terms you may see when considering an offer. Read More »
This is not a post about legal weed in Colorado and Washington. This is a post about the current status of our company Pagely and more specifically about how fucking thrilled I am to have our new CTO Josh Eichorn join our team. There is some often regurgitated saying you hear that goes something like …
This is a talk I did in Nov of 2011 on building a business organically. About 250 people in the audience. Was a good time. I gave the same talk to a different audience at WordCampPHX 2012 a few months after this. [vimeo width=”650″ height=”447″]https://vimeo.com/51979256[/vimeo]
I too built this model. I too was in awe when my Dad drove me about 1hour north of Salt lake to Hill air force base to see one for rea when I was about 12. [Read the article] The quote below was from a book written by a pilot of an SR-71. It resonated …
We sort of pride ourselves at Pagely for being the “first” in just about everything we have done. The merits of the first mover advantage have been hotly debated if not outright dismissed. However Brad Feld says be a niche first mover. Several people challenged this idea in the comments and there are many investors …
First mover or Fast follower; never having to say “me too” Read More »