Scalability and technology consulting advice for SaaS and technology companies — from the AKF Partners team.
If you have a premium product, at a premium price, it’s unlikely you would sell it out of a rundown, poorly lighted store that smells vaguely like stale meat.…
Technical due diligence of products is about more than the solution architecture and the technologies employed. Performing diligence correctly requires that…
Sorry, False Alarm...
The Law that Almost Wasn’t
In 1965, psychologist Bruce Tuckman published his theory of group dynamics. This theory describes the stages (or phases) through which a team progresses…
North Korea’s recent antics involving ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons are scary. While we seem to be edging ever closer to nuclear war – closer perhaps…
I’m a huge Malcolm Gladwell fan. Gladwell’s ability to convey complex concepts and virtually incomprehensible academic research in easily understood prose is…
Last month, a bot developed by OpenAI (co-founded by Elon Musk) beat the world’s best, pro Dota 2 players. This is another milestone accomplishment in the…
We have a saying in AKF Partners that “an incident is a terrible thing to waste”. When things go poorly in a firm, stakeholders (shareholders, partners,…
We all suffer from various cognitive biases, those mental filters or lenses that alter or warp the reality around us. With the election of 2016, one particular…
We hear every day that more and more jobs are disappearing, yet the technology job sector cannot keep up with the unprecedented demand. So why are women…
AKF often recommends to our clients the adoption of business metric monitoring – the use of high-level user activity or transaction patterns that can often…
