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On Thursday night I was at Startups and Beer (shout out to Communitech for organizing), talking with some other founders.

Today will be my last blog post on the mistakes I made at Arlo.

As I outlined in my first mistake post, Arlo started as an internal tool and expanded from there.

We lost at least three accounts because our AI failed during customer demos, and we had no idea it would.

I'm taking a break from my weekly posts on mistakes made at Arlo to share some exciting news: I am co-founding a new company with Jacqui Murphy called

I have written two so far on product related lessons learned and I feel like it would be a good time to switch over to go to market lessons learned.

As I mentioned in my

While starting with a solution before understanding the problem is a well-known mistake, we entrepreneurs still fall into this trap when it presents itself differently.

While a bit overdue I wanted to take some time to write out a blog post covering the end of the KidsAbility Superhero Challenge.

I have enjoyed bringing everyone along on my journey to find my new role at EnPowered.

It has been a crazy three weeks since I announced that I was leaving Encircle.

Once one gets through the “why” question after announcing a big life change, the next follow up question is “what’s next” or “what are you looking for”.

After 4 years at Encircle, I have decided it is time for a new adventure.

I can remember the first day I met Phil Everson.