Entrepreneur · Author · Founder of StringCan Interactive
Building better businesses. Living a more intentional life.
I write for entrepreneurs who’ve built something real but still feel too involved in every decision, follow-up and growth push. And for the families who feel that pressure at home.
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Why I write
I founded StringCan Interactive in 2010. It was my eighth company. Somewhere along the way I learned that the pressure of building a business doesn’t stay at the office. It follows you home, sits with you at dinner and shapes the family you’re raising.
That’s what this site is about. I write about the founder side of growth: what it really costs, why so many companies still depend on the owner to hold everything together, and how my wife Rachel and I have tried to build a family that gets the best of me rather than what’s left over.
Some posts are about business. Some are about marriage, parenting or planning a year. Most are about both, because for an entrepreneur they’re rarely separate.
Featured writing
Business
The Business That Only Moves When You’re Watching
I got sick in the middle of our busiest quarter about ten years ago. When I came back, I found out what my business actually ran on.
April 15, 2026
Personal
Why It Took Me Years to Understand What Growth Actually Costs
For most of my career, growth was the scoreboard. It took me years to realize it’s never free.
December 9, 2025
Family
Entrepreneurs and Marriage: How to Protect Your Relationship While Building a Business
I’ve scaled companies and made tough calls. I’ve also neglected date nights and assumed my wife just understood the chaos.
March 15, 2025
The book
Family 2.0
Harness Business Principles to Reboot Your Family in 4 Days
In 2015 I took what worked in my companies and turned it into a four-day retreat for my own family. We talked about respect, looked back at the year’s ups and downs, set goals together and had a lot of fun doing it.
Family 2.0 walks you through that retreat, step by step, for entrepreneurs who want more from home than what’s left after work.
My day job
I run StringCan Interactive
StringCan helps owner-led B2B companies find where revenue is leaking inside their growth system, fix the bottlenecks and build more consistent pipeline. If your company still depends on what you personally remember, chase or decide, that’s usually where we start.