How can we better prepare for the future of business? It begins with investing in the future now.

Startup Lessons Learned from cooking.

Bitching is easy. Building is hard. Developers have perspective we can all learn from.

Businesses imitate what works. That's how new models are born. When the margins show a better way, others will follow.

We're a value-driven company and we're on a mission to help your company build better products.

I like to marry revenue and innovation when at all possible because I believe it to be closer to the definition. Here's why:

Solving problems at scale is monetizing Whack-A-Mole, but you first need for a strategic outsider - a peer from another department or someone like us - to help you study where you could be solving problems at scale.

If you are a vendor or a thought leader in a particular vertical you have surely faced a “pay to play” ethical challenge. If you haven’t, you may be lacking some self-awareness. “Pay to play” is the long-accepted rule, but should it be?

Unfortunately, it means that best path up may be to work for one of these companies with sub-par cultures. I have found that bad cultures lose their best performers after about 3-5 years.

Understand what makes Firm Studio run.

Fight inflation at your firm, and for your clients, by making (or mastering) tools. Tools are deflation oriented, they are that by their nature.