First Step to Implement EOS: The Accountability Chart

August 21, 2013

The last chapter of Traction contains a step-by-step guide to implement the Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS). Over the last two days, my management team and I worked through the first 3 of 7 steps. The first step is the Accountability Chart, accompanied by the People Analyzer and the GWC (Get it, Want it, Capacity) worksheet. […]

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Entrepreneurial Operating System

August 20, 2013

Today, my management team and I kicked off a big internal initiative to implement the “Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS).” EOS is the brainchild of Gino Wickman and is outlined in the book, “Traction: Get a Grip on your Business.” I was introduced to Traction a few months ago as part of my onboarding process within […]

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Synchronous Systems

August 19, 2013

As a first year graduate student at Georgia Tech, I was introduced to Strogatz’s book entitled, “Sync: How Order Emerges From Chaos In the Universe, Nature, and Daily Life.” The book introduces an area of scientific research that analyzes how different systems can spontaneously erupt in synchrony. Example systems include:  fish schools, lightning bug beetles […]

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Allen Nance’s Breath of Fresh Air

August 17, 2013

I first learned of Allen Nance and What Counts a few weeks ago during his keynote at B2BCamp (my recap of the event is here). He’s started contributing back to the Atlanta startup ecosystem through his insightful blog. Today he posted a great fresh perspective on ideas to strengthen the Atlanta startup ecosystem. Here are […]

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Attention to Costs in a Startup

August 16, 2013

Startups are mainly about revenue growth. You start at zero and build from there. It is ridiculous to talk about the profitability of an early startup’s financials. Revenue growth is what matters most. Revenue solves all problems in a startup. That’s one of the biggest attractions for people to work in startups. It’s all about building. […]

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Disruptive Innovation in Technical Computing

August 15, 2013

In our technical computing market, disruptive innovations occur like clockwork. In fact, some of Clayton Christensen’s original studies of disruption included examples from computing (e.g. the hard disk drive). One of the biggest conferences in our market, Supercomputing, has a track each year for recognizing our industry’s disruptive innovators. AccelerEyes was named a disruptive innovator […]

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Disruptive Innovation

August 14, 2013

I’m a huge fan of Clayton Christensen. I think he is one of the great business minds of a generation. He is best known for popularizing the concept of disruptive innovation. Prior to his work in disruptive innovation, the popular belief was that firms lost footing because they could not keep up with other firms […]

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Startup Blindspots from Quora

August 13, 2013

I recently ran across this Quora post that spread like wildfire through entrepreneurial circles, discussing common startup blindspots. I liked it so much I wanted to pluck out the best part to share with you. An idea is not a design A design is not a prototype A prototype is not a program A program […]

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Terms of Convertible Note Financing

August 12, 2013

A few days ago, I posted the documents that we used to raise a friends & family convertible note round. At the request of Knox Massey, who played a leading role in the 2013 Invest Georgia VC Fund & 2013 Georgia Angel Tax Credit, I’m pulling the salient terms of the convertible note documents into this […]

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Startup Lessons from Pioneers on Resourcefulness

August 11, 2013

“Fix it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without,” an old pioneer adage shared by Gordon B. Hinckley I love that adage. My ancestors on my mother’s side were Mormon pioneers. Some had wagons. Some walked across the plains (about 1,300 miles) pulling all their belongings by hand in carts. They were […]

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