by unthink | Oct 24, 2025 | Blog Post
We obsess over maximizing the number. The banker presents three offers. The first is $47 million, all cash, close in sixty days. The second is $52 million with an earnout. The third is $58 million, but you’ll stay on for three years reporting to someone who...
by unthink | Oct 23, 2025 | Blog Post
We skip the strategy session because we’re “too busy growing.” We hire before we clarify the role because we need someone “now.” We chase the new opportunity before we’ve mastered the current one because this one “feels...
by unthink | Oct 22, 2025 | Blog Post
What if the real cost isn’t what you’re missing—but what you’re abandoning? Every “yes” to the shiny opportunity is a “no” to the momentum you’ve built. The question isn’t what you might gain by chasing something...
by unthink | Oct 21, 2025 | Blog Post
Strategy doesn’t fail. People do. The conference room fills with confident voices. The strategy is sound—validated, researched, stress-tested. The right people occupy the right seats. The process architecture stands solid. Everyone nods. Everyone agrees. Then...
by unthink | Oct 20, 2025 | Blog Post
We’ve invented a calendar of false starts. Monday. The first of the month. Q1. January 1st. These aren’t beginnings—they’re permission slips we write ourselves to delay what matters. The founder who waits until Monday to make that difficult call. The...
by unthink | Oct 17, 2025 | Blog Post
The CEO insists on quarterly thinking because that’s how it’s done. The founder chases venture capital because everyone says you must. The team meets every Monday at nine because… well, that’s when meetings happen. We inherit rules like we...
