When I first started with Schedulefly we didn’t want to seem small. We tried to look bigger than we were, which was a team of three guys. We had business cards. We had titles. We had a phone system that said “dial 1 for sales and 2 for customer support,” but the phone rang to […]
Read MoreThe first time I ever heard the phrase “Need to have versus nice to have” was at the company I worked with before starting Schedulefly. We sold a software product that sales people used to help prepare themselves for sales calls – kind of like cliff notes – to quickly get up to speed on […]
Read MoreI posted this 3.5 years ago. These quotes are timeless… ————– “You have to think long term when you choose your investors. It’s like marrying into a family. They have to trust you explicitly. And vice versa.” “If you are going to raise money, start your pitches with your worst prospects. By the time you […]
Read MoreI recall an episode of Shark Tank where the entrepreneur had a company that was doing quite well and had a bunch of loyal fans and a trendy product – but were definitely an unknown underground kind of company. I don’t remember the exact revenue numbers this guy shared – but I think they were […]
Read MoreSeems like every week I get at least one email from someone trying to sell us something that Schedulefly would use – software usually. In most cases – it’s a sales pitch that sounds as if it were sent to 10,000 other businesses too – they just inserted my name at the beginning. I ignore […]
Read MoreMeherwan Irani got an MBA and spent 15 years in corporate America, working for other people. He was not unhappy, but never jumped out of bed in the morning excited to head to work. So in 2009 as the economy was collapsing, he and his wife Molly took a leap of faith and decided to […]
Read MoreCris Eddings co-owns Chuck’s Fish (two locations) and 5 Bar (five locations). His restaurants are very popular and very highly rated. He and his team follow their own compasses and don’t pay attention to conventional wisdom when it doesn’t align with what they believe. So they do things like raising the minimum wage for non-tipped […]
Read MoreWe posted this video a year ago, but I wanted to re-run it. Luke Pearson (Lift Films) did an incredible job of capturing the passion and pride Andrew Ullom takes in his work as a pastry chef at Beasley’s Chicken + Honey in Raleigh, N.C. I love his comments on why he and his team […]
Read MoreMic Heynekamp of Eddyline Brewery was in our book, Restaurant Owners Uncorked, and told me one of the most interesting stories I’ve ever heard about opening a restaurant. He and his wife, Molley, drew up a $1,000,000 business plan to open their first place. It included new equipment and everything conventional wisdom says you need […]
Read MoreAs we’ve mentioned before, we don’t have sales people – nobody trying to convince restaurants to use Schedulefly. Why would we? How do we know if it’s right for them? We don’t know how they operate, what issues are important, etc. Or if the timing is right. Maybe they want to deal with scheduling a […]
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