Your Software Was Built for the Company You Used to Be

And why the mismatch is quietly costing you more every quarter By Steele Consulting Your business is twice the size it was three years ago. Different customers. Different...

The Hidden Tax of Vendor Lock-In

How to measure what you’re actually paying for staying — and how to stop paying more By Steele Consulting Every CFO at a growing company has had this exact meeting. It’s...

The Documentation You Wish You’d Written 18 Months Ago

The Documentation You Wish You’d Written 18 Months Ago Five documents that save real pain — and the four that don’t By Steele Consulting Every operator who has lived through...

How to Prepare Your Tech Stack for an Exit

How to Prepare Your Tech Stack for an Exit The 24-month playbook that keeps your valuation intact when the buyer’s advisor arrives By Steele Consulting Most founders start...

The Founder’s Tech Bottleneck

The Founder’s Tech Bottleneck When every technical decision runs through you — and how to get out from under it By Steele Consulting You’ve become the person every technical...

Acquiring a Company?

The 5 software questions you need answered first By Steele Consulting Most acquisitions that fail don’t fail on the math. They fail on integration. And the single most...

Internal Software vs. Customer-Facing Software

Why they’re different games — and building one like the other is how projects fail By Steele Consulting A common conversation with a new client goes like this. The client...

How to Kill a Software Project Before It Kills You

How to Kill a Software Project Before It Kills You The 5 signals that tell you to stop, and the playbook for actually doing it By Steele Consulting Every business owner who...

Tech Due Diligence

What buyers actually look at when they look at your software By Steele Consulting If you’re planning to sell your business in the next 12 to 24 months — or even just take on...

What to Do When Two Reports Say Different Things

A diagnostic for reconciling — and why running it more than once means you need something else By Steele Consulting Every business hits this moment. Two reports come back on...

Break big things into small things

https://youtu.be/wFrMsfLeREw Pacing is an essential component of project management. It refers to the rate or speed at which tasks and activities are completed throughout the project's life cycle. Effective pacing is critical for project success as it ensures that...

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Let your humanity show. Connect!

Keep your humanity while serving and delighting customers. You don't have to have split personalities; You can be kind and be in business at the same time. https://youtu.be/ry--j92SSZQ Building connections with customers is crucial for the success of any business,...

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Why Brainstorming is so Important!

Brainstorming is a powerful technique that has been used for decades to generate creative solutions to complex problems. It involves a group of people coming together to generate ideas and solutions to a problem, with the aim of finding the best possible solution....

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