// field notes

Notes on revenue, from the inside of early-stage GTM.

What I see and hear working fractionally with founders, on sales foundations, ICP, and the mistakes that quietly cost the most.

The Only Three Reasons Any Business Buys Anything

Revenue, cost, or risk. Every credible value proposition sits on one of these three points. Here's how to work out which one you can actually prove.

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Maximising Forward Deployed Engineers: Going Beyond The Technical Value

Technical skill is table stakes. Here's how to engineer business fluency and time to value into the FDE motion.

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The $175k Mistake: Hiring a VP of Sales Too Early

The real cost of a premature VP of Sales hire is rarely what it looks like on the offer letter. Here's the maths, and what to fix first.

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6 Mistakes Founders Keep Making

Field notes from 20 months as a Fractional Revenue Leader, on the moment that repeats itself almost word for word, whichever founder I'm talking to.

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