When a deal is coming, the instinct is to get the code reviewed. Clean up the repo, tidy the architecture diagram, make sure nothing embarrassing surfaces in an audit. That’s rarely where diligence turns. Experienced technical diligence isn’t a code review. It’s a[…]

Founder-led technology decisions often work for a long time because the founder can hold the whole system in their head — the product, the trade-offs, the shortcuts, the plan — all in one place. The signal that something needs to change is rarely[…]

When something feels wrong with technology, the move usually sounds obvious: hire a CTO, fund the AI initiative, replatform. Those are conclusions. They’re rarely diagnoses. Most of the time the named fix treats a symptom while the real constraint — usually somewhere in[…]

Minimum Viable Products: An Introduction for Product Managers Imagine a restaurant testing a new dish before adding it to the menu. Instead of investing in bulk ingredients, redesigning the menu, and training staff on a complex recipe, the chef first introduces it as[…]

The chief technology officer (CTO) is one of the least understood and most broad of all c-suite positions.  The role also varies quite a bit at different company stages.  What one company expects of its CTO may be entirely different from what the[…]

I come across many businesses that are not grounded in basic high level architecture and design goals.  Basically, they simply leap from features to building stuff, most often this happens because everyone is in a mad rush to just get something working as[…]

If I tell you that you can purchase a brand new iPhone for $5, what do you think?  Yet if I tell you that you can hire an outsourced developer for $10 / hour, somehow we set aside our dad’s advice that “nothing is[…]

One of the most important product management concepts is getting to market sooner rather than later with the Minimally Valuable Product (MVP) and iterating or pivoting as you gather feedback and learn, especially if you are building new, innovative products.  This is simply[…]

David Fisher once wrote “What often characterizes visionaries is their lack of vision. It’s a popular idea that people of genius see farther and clearer than other people, but perhaps the truth is actually the opposite. Visionaries often don’t notice the enormous and[…]