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Thoughts on entrepreneurship, startups, technology, and building companies.

What I Learned Starting a Business at 16

The lessons from my first pressure washing company that shaped everything after.

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Building a Tech Incubator: The Blackbox Holdings Story

How we find legacy markets, disrupt them with software, and build companies around those products.

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Selling Your First Company: A Founder's Guide

What I wish I knew before selling The Pressure King to private equity.

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Disrupting the E-Signature Market with DuckDuckSign

Why we built another e-signature platform and what makes it different.

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The Future of CRM is AI-Powered: Building Roladexter

How AI transcription is transforming contact management and relationship building.

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The Nonprofit Software Gap: Why We Built Alignmint

Nonprofits deserve better tools. Here's how we're building them.

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Blackbaud Alternative: Why Nonprofits Are Looking for Options

Blackbaud dominates nonprofit software, but at what cost? A look at alternatives.

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Nonprofit Accounting Challenges: Why Standard Software Falls Short

Nonprofit accounting isn't business accounting. Here's why standard tools fail.

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QuickBooks for Nonprofits: Why It Falls Short

QuickBooks is great for businesses. Here's why it struggles with nonprofits.

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Donor Management Strategy: Building Lasting Relationships

Effective donor management is about relationships, not transactions.

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Document Intelligence: Why We Built Docusuck

Getting data out of PDFs and documents is painful. Here's how AI changes that.

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Disrupting Corporate Gifting with BizGift

Corporate gifting is a $300B industry stuck in the past. We're modernizing it.

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AI and the Music Industry: Empowering Artists with Band Voyage

How technology can help artists take control of their careers.

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The Nashville Live Music Scene: A Local's Perspective

Why Nashville's music scene is unlike anywhere else in the world.

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Finding Opportunity in Legacy Markets

The playbook for identifying and disrupting outdated industries with software.

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Running Multiple Companies: Systems and Sanity

How to manage multiple ventures without burning out.

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When to Close a Startup: Lessons from Amish Payments

Not every idea works. Here's how to know when to move on.

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Why I Don't Take VC Money

Venture capital isn't the only way to build companies. Here's why I bootstrap.

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Contract-First Company Building: Let Customers Fund Your Startup

Get paid to build your product, then turn it into a company. The contract-first model.

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Custom Software Development in Nashville

Nashville's business community deserves world-class software. Here's how we build it.

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What Rock Climbing Taught Me About Entrepreneurship

The parallels between scaling walls and scaling companies.

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Finding Interesting Problems with Interesting People

Why the who matters as much as the what in building companies.

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