I have and continue to accumulate many lessons learned while building SaaS, technology, entertainment, and professional services companies. And since knowledge not shared is wasted, this blog is the medium for me to share the best practices, learnings, and advice.
Sincerely,
Apolinaras “Apollo” Sinkevicius
I have been in operations for almost my entire 20+ year career and have had some incredible mentors along the way. I worked with half a dozen CEOs, a couple of companies co-founded, a bunch of CEOs I advised. Yet, I still prefer to be the operations guy and leave the...
As my regular readers know, I am a startup operations veteran with "battle scars" from numerous startups. Today, I am going to address some common misconceptions about startup operations executives. Let’s get to it! First and foremost, let’s get the lingo and caveats...
Your operations people are the reason customers are happy, vendors continue providing you with services, and employees have enough resources. The operations team is the "A-team" of vision logistics, and their #1 mission is to take care of the organization (feed it,...
The associated risks of starting a company are hard enough when you are young and unattached (though lack of experience and naïveté keeps you brave and motivated). But being in a long-term relationship, married, or a parent adds a whole new level of complications,...
The 1st version of this post I wrote 12 years ago. To this day, the post still is one of the top 10 most read on my blog. Back when I wrote it 1st, Blackberry was a serious competitor to Android and iOS. Now it is just meme stock. What has changed since then were the...
It has been almost a decade since I lost my father to cancer, but the lessons I learned watching him run large companies, creating new businesses, and turning around languishing businesses are still fresh in my mind. I credit him for my business ethics, “workaholism”,...
I have been digging deep and thinking about what I have learned throughout my career and what I want to focus on and further improve. Managing and developing people is the highest ROI skill that you can always work to enhance. Why should you care? Well, unless you are...
Let’s face it, when our companies are searching for the perfect product/market fit or working to scale a repeatable business model, we have plenty of fires to extinguish and opportunities to chase. Closing that next deal, managing another huge money-making project,...
When it comes to startups and fast-growing scalable businesses, sustainable growth companies are built by teams of shining constellations rather than just several bright stars. A team of people that can feed off each other and grow together will beat any company...
The page you requested could not be found. Try refining your search, or use the navigation above to locate the post.