by Victoria Sivrais | Sep 16, 2026 | Strategy & Growth
Both of us. Every day between Christmas and New Year’s. A full edit of the manuscript, front to back, one line at a time.Victoria gave up skiing with her family. I gave up the beach with mine. Our kids were home for one week and we spent it at a laptop. We had sworn...
by Beth Mazza | Sep 9, 2026 | Strategy & Growth
We paid our vendors as their bills came in. We didn’t look at the due date and didn’t even think about considering whether we had the cash flow to pay them. Our recurring revenue was annualizing at over seven figures so we were much more worried about getting the...
by Beth Mazza | Aug 19, 2026 | Strategy & Growth
We were so excited when we found him on LinkedIn. We finally had enough work to hire a junior analyst, someone to take pressure of the partners who were seriously underwater. He was sharp and hungry and the kind of candidate you feel lucky to catch. We...
by Victoria Sivrais | Jul 30, 2026 | Strategy & Growth
The call came at 7:45 on a Tuesday night. Just one quick thing. It was a legacy account. One of the first clients we carried over from our old firm when we left to start Clermont, and one of the reasons we had the nerve to leave at all. To get them to sign with an...
by Beth Mazza | Jul 8, 2026 | Strategy & Growth
The day I sold my first company, I didn’t pop champagne. I signed the documents, took the congratulatory calls, and went home to make dinner for four kids. Sometime after putting the kids to bed, I took a peak at my checking account. It had a lot more zero’s...
by Victoria Sivrais | May 20, 2026 | Strategy & Growth
Now go tell three people your idea. (And one of them cannot be your mother.) Over the past two weeks, we’ve walked through the Mommy Mayhem Matrix — the non-negotiables and flexibility requirements that tell you whether a business fits your actual life — and the...
