Annual planning has a tendency to look very similar across companies. Equally, if you take a look at the advice consultants and other experts tout this time of year, it’s pretty much the same as well. Examine financials and operational data from the past year, make projections, set goals and develop a plan for achieving […]
I was recently contacted by Victoria Finkle, a business writer for Inc. Magazine, to help analyze the financials of the fast-growing, San Francisco-based tech company, Buffer. Typically, very little financial information can be found on privately held companies like Buffer, but thanks to the company’s ongoing commitment to radical transparency – a core value […]
Once a business is past the start-up phase and ready to grow to the next level, something key changes about the nature of its foundation. Specifically, it has to be rock solid. You might be thinking that every organization needs a rock solid foundation at every stage and, of course, you’re right – but only […]
Let me tell you about two business owners. One couldn’t sleep at night. She was concerned that her company’s growth was getting out of hand. She wasn’t sure if she could afford to scale the business and didn’t know what scaling meant in terms of cash and profitability. She made the decision to […]
There’s a quote people like to attribute to Albert Einstein (it actually belongs to William Bruce Cameron, a sociologist, who, perhaps, wasn’t as meme-worthy as Einstein). Anyway, without further ado: “Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.” CEOs can be buried under an avalanche of data. Virtually […]
