
Inflection Point
Some of our thinking about business, optimizing companies, and Inflection Points

Acqui-Hires and the Decline of Venture Capital
Acquihires represent an existential threat to the VC model, essentially transforming every venture investment into callable equity, thereby destroying what makes VC profitable in the first place.

The AI Divide: Why AI Won’t Replace You. (Someone using it will.)
AI is not coming for your job. But someone who knows how to effectively use it might be.

Combatting the AI-Driven SaaS Slowdown
AI is contributing to a slowdown in sales for established B2B SaaS companies. We look at some of the evidence and explore mitigation approaches for SaaS companies.

Is Data Really the New Gold?
What is the next step in value-add for SaaS companies? Insights from MIT on leveraging data to drive deeper benefits for customers.

Inflection Point Data – What’s Currently Impacting Tech Businesses
A look at 10 critical factors that are driving the need for growing companies to adapt or change around the tornadic inflection points they currently face.

From Burn to Earn: Sales Strategy in the Age of PE-Style VC
The shift in VC’s approach to funding and governance requires startups to build and manage their sales organizations in a new way.

From Unicorn Dreams to PE Demands
The VC Shift Reshaping Startups
The venture capital (VC) landscape is undergoing transformation, adopting practices associated with private equity (PE). Here’s why, and the implications for start-ups.

A Competitive Analysis Model
This Competitive Analysis Model offers a standardized approach to evaluating competitors based on their ability to innovate disruptively and their effectiveness in bringing products to market.

The Guiding Phrase of Product Success: “So They Can…”
Completing the phrase: “So they can…” forces alignment with customer outcomes throughout the organization.

Tariffs are Just the Latest Crisis: Building Supply Chain Resilience in a Perma-Crisis World
Tariffs are just the latest chapter in a 30-year saga of supply chain disruption. Here we examine the five key tenets of building supply chain resilience.

The Opportunity of Economic Uncertainty
Current challenges like trade issues, unpredictable market conditions, fluctuating investor sentiment, and shifting customer demands actually represent an opportunity- to build the long-term resilience that would help your organization weather both current and future storms. Here are five key strategies to employ in uncertain times like these.

Transitioning from Founder-led Sales to Scale without Foundering
The transition from an ad-hoc founder-led approach to sales to a scalable sales team is a make-or-break inflection point for early stage B2B tech companies. Here’s how to navigate the transition without foundering on the rocks.

AI for SMBs: The Tool You Need, But Not the Answer You Think
How SMBs can Overcome Their Critical Challenges in AI and Successfully Integrate it into Their Long-Term Strategies

Making Continuous Customer Research Practical
There is a practical way to implement the continuous discovery research that can increase retention (up to 25%- Forrester), revenue growth (4-8% above market- Gartner), and profitability (60% - Deloitte). Here’s how.

Foundational Behaviors of Strategic Product Management
Highly successful product managers don’t just focus on execution—they balance vision, innovation, and business strategy…

IP for AI: A Tragedy of the Commons?
Current intellectual property law is surprisingly inimical to AI-generated innovation. This posture is likely to become untenable in the near future.

Evolved Leadership for a Multigenerational Workforce (Leading with character, not coercion)
Managing teams populated by Gen X, Millennials, Gen Z, and Boomers requires evolved leadership. Here’s how the generations differ and what those differences mean to how you lead a workforce with varied dispositions.

The Power of Independent Directors for Early-Stage Tech Companies
We discuss the strategic importance of independent directors for early-stage tech companies and first-time CEOs, describing how to enhance credibility, gain objective oversight, and balance investor dynamics.

What To Do When Your Tech No Longer Supports Your Growing Business
Companies often outgrow the systems and solutions adopted early on. Here we examine six proven strategies for retooling that companies can adopt to decisively move forward and avoid paralysis through analysis.

The Ecstasy & Agony of Resellers
In this four-minute read, a veteran of reseller relationships speaks from experience to reveal the five key Benefits and three significant Risks of this business acceleration technique.
