The Founder Files

Now let's talk about why 1% of $100M isn't actually the win you think it is. Last week, we walked through how to calculate your Total Addressable Market — the top-down approach, the bottom-up approach, and why the number has to land between $100 million and $30...

The entrepreneurship playbook wasn't written for moms. Here's how we rewrote it — starting with the math and the non-negotiables. The entrepreneurship playbook wasn't written for people with kids who somehow need to feed a starving family, get them to hockey practice,...

Everyone is talking about AI taking over. How it is changing search. How it is changing how buyers find vendors. How it is going to make half of what you are doing right now obsolete. And then someone tells you to overhaul your website, learn prompt engineering, add...

And mistaking one for the other is costing you more than money There is a moment in the early life of every small business when the finances feel completely under control. Your accountant files the taxes. QuickBooks is (mostly) up to date. You know roughly what came...

Last week, Beth was sitting in a mastermind full of sharp, ambitious women who have built something real and are hungry to build something bigger. She brought up P&Ls. The room went quiet. Not the kind of quiet that means everyone is thinking. The kind that means...

Victoria and I agreed on a lot. But our arguments? Those are where we made our money. We cried. We fought. We went to our respective corners and came back swinging. And somewhere in the wreckage of those conversations, we almost always landed somewhere better than...

Why every female founder needs to obsess over the expense line — not just the top line. She had a beautiful business. On paper. Consistent revenue, a growing client list, and a system that was genuinely working. She was a sales consultant who had cracked the code on...

Victoria and I were 24 hours away from signing the worst deal of our lives. The acquisition offer sat on the table. Life-changing money. The buyers kept calling, increasingly exasperated. Our lawyers had the paperwork ready. All we had to do was sign. But something...

I still remember the exact moment Victoria and I finally admitted what we'd been avoiding for weeks: our business was in a death spiral. We were sitting in our conference room, staring at numbers that made us physically sick. For a company used to 50 percent...