You’ve posted your qualifications, got yourself a business license and are ready to start a new career as an independent tech consultant.   What makes you think that you will succeed in a field where others have, well, not succeeded? This fall,

If you spend any time with senior engineers, you get stories.  Stories of Work. Stories of Technology.  Stories of Friendship.  Stories of accomplishment Often, these stories are far more profound than the tellers intend.  They tell of mastery,

The arc comes to a close, even though the issues remain open.   At some point, the board has to make a decision – Take the path to the right, Take the path to the left, or Stand in the middle of the road, (which is a decision unto itself.

It’s not a typical employee relationship – CEO and Board. Sure, there’s an employee contract but it hardly covers all the circumstances of the job. Vinny, the CEO of SidePocket, has concluded that his board is out of step with the software market and t...

Things are never as clear as they seem.  Never as obvious.  Never as straightforward as you would like. It should be simple.  You get an idea.  You make a product.  You take it to the market.  Let your customers decide for good or for ill.

Sometimes talk doesn’t work. You’ve argued your case again and again. They hear your points, concede your argument but don’t accept your conclusion. What do you do? And when do you do it? And perhaps most importantly,

What’s success?  A million a month? A million a month in revenue for a young software firm? (Remember, this story comes from the 1990s, Podcastland.) It’s not a bad start. But what do you do with success? Throw a party? Lease a new office building?

Technology & Governance?  What’s the big deal?  It’s just politics.  Right? And why are we doing it with stories?  Why can’t we just give you the PowerPoints and be done with it? Because Tech Governance is a key part of our age.  Without it,

Finding investments.  Never as easy as you think.   It’s not the technology.  It’s the business.  And the two are often far from the same thing.   And when you go from technology to business, you often find decisions that are hard to make.

How do you make decisions about tech companies – especially tech startups?  It’s not as easy, or as straightforward or as rational as we might like to think.  Over the next 7 episodes, we will look at our long term CTO, Vinny,