Building companies

I’ve started eight companies. The eighth, StringCan Interactive, launched in 2010. Today StringCan helps owner-led B2B companies find where revenue is leaking inside their growth system, fix the bottlenecks and build more consistent pipeline.

I’m also the author of Revenue Rewired and co-host of the Revenue Rewired podcast with my business partner, Sarah Shepard.

Family 2.0

Like most families, ours had its challenges, and most of them came back to communication. So I asked a question I’d asked in business many times: why can’t we connect better?

In 2015 I turned what worked in my companies into a four-day family retreat. We talked about respect, looked back at the year’s ups and downs, set goals for the next one and had a lot of fun together. Other families have since gone through the same process.

That retreat became my first book, Family 2.0: Harness Business Principles to Reboot Your Family in 4 Days.

Why I write here

I write for entrepreneurs who have built something real but still feel too involved in every decision, follow-up, relationship and growth push. That pressure doesn’t stay neatly inside the business. It follows you home and makes growth feel heavier than it should.

This site is where I write about the founder side of that work: business, family and building a company that doesn’t need the owner to hold everything together.