About Startups

Revenue is job one. Revenue goes first or the company is gone.
Fast serves new contract revenue.

“After we deliver on the contract and get paid, we can put in the logging we know we’ll need, work on the performance, write the documentation….”

Service companies stay there, Fast with new contracts as king.

Product companies have to transition.
Monthly Recurring Revenue (MRR) starts to challenge new contracts for priority, revenue is more secure, which leads to growth, hiring, and support.

What’s to transition?
Growth weighs down fast code requiring performance work, maybe new architecture.
Hiring requires training, sharing knowledge, meetings.
Support of MRR needs prevention, stability, testing, monitoring, coordination.

The transition to growth, from Services to Product, is about tackling the balance between fast and scale, between writing software and supporting software. This website is dedicated to that balance, fast enough and scalable enough on the way through 10x growth to 1,000,000x growth.

About jr101dallas

Long time software engineer and manager, jr101dallas, has experience in multiple companies transitioning from startup to growth, from Services to Product. Examining Practices to save time and move toward scale, in both business processes and in code, is a daily effort and passion. Sharing these ideas is a natural extension into this website.