Welcome to In Pursuit of Scalability blog!

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

3 Startup Offers You Shouldn’t Accept – How Compensation Shortcuts Hurt You

I have dealt with hundreds of employment agreements, promotions, and other compensation arrangements. And I tend to help my friends too, so my dataset includes both sides of the table. Given how the compensation information is easily accessible, I am often...

Scalable SaaS Best Practices: The Legal Agreements Discipline

SaaS is a beautiful business model. Over the last fifteen years, I got to build four companies in the B2B SaaS space. I love the efficiency of the model! Frankly, building companies would be so much more expensive without the cost efficiencies SaaS products bring. ...

Social distancing is not enough to open our offices. We must address two other issues first.

Updated 7/14/2020 to reflect new studies. Our inboxes and other channels are still flooded with random office social distancing advice and posts about how to sit six feet away from colleagues. Sitting six feet away is easy to digest, but the research coming out of our...

When Is the Right Time to Hire an Operations Executive (COO, CFO, or VP of Operations)

The day-to-day execution and administration of a business often take an excessive amount of time, so the primary reason to augment your team with an Operations Executive is to maximize your CEO and other co-founders' contribution to the enterprise. I firmly believe...

Operations Leadership

Myths Why Startups Don’t Need COOs and Operations Executives

Myths Why Startups Don’t Need COOs and Operations Executives

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...

What Do Operations People Do?

What Do Operations People Do?

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,...

Lessons Learned

How To Be an Entrepreneur and Not Ruin Your Marriage

How To Be an Entrepreneur and Not Ruin Your Marriage

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,...

My Boss Doesn’t Answer My E-mails! What Should I Do?

My Boss Doesn’t Answer My E-mails! What Should I Do?

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...

12 Rules of Business I Learned from My Father

12 Rules of Business I Learned from My Father

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”,...

Talent Management

Startup Finance & Legal

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