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...

Your Company Is Paying for 47 Software Tools

Here’s what to do about that By Steele Consulting At some point in the life of every growing business, somebody asks the question that nobody wants to be the one to answer:...

Discovery vs. Delivery

Discovery vs. Delivery The two skills every software partner needs — and why most vendors have only one By Steele Consulting Every failed software project has a post-mortem,...