Founder Essays

Founder Essays.

One essay, every week. Written by a founder for founders.

    We won't send you spam. Unsubscribe at any time.
    girl on her laptop working from home

    6 Questions That Reveal Whether You're Actually Busy or Actually Productive

    Six questions to ask at the end of each week that reveal whether you are actually moving the business forward or just keeping it running.
    girl on her laptop working from home

    Busy Is Not a Business Strategy: How to Stop Confusing Activity With Progress

    Busy and productive feel almost identical from the inside. The difference shows up in the revenue line six months later. Here is how to stop confusing the two.
    girl on her laptop working from home

    What I'd Do If I Had to Make the Founder-to-CEO Shift Right Now

    A practical 90-day playbook for making the founder-to-CEO shift deliberately, from the calendar changes to the decision architecture to the identity traps to watch for.
    girl on her laptop working from home

    The Identity Shifts That Make the Founder-to-CEO Transition Actually Stick

    The founder-to-CEO shift is not about delegation. It is about five identity changes that have to happen before any operational restructure will stick.
    girl on her laptop working from home

    5 Reasons Your Quarterly Plan Keeps Falling Apart by Week 3

    Quarterly plans for service founders fail for five specific reasons, and four of them have nothing to do with how good the plan was.
    girl on her laptop working from home

    How to Structure Your Week as CEO of a Service Business (Without Stacking Meetings)

    The honest answer to how a CEO of a service business should structure their week is that it needs to look almost nothing like the week you ran when you were a…
    See What's Inside
    See What's Inside