Category: Building a business

  • Update on 2024 tour: highlights from the TechExit.io conference

    TechExit.io Toronto 2024 โœ… Some of my favorite things about last weekโ€™s event? ๐Ÿค“ As a Numbers nerd Listening to Diane Horton, who moderated the “Valuations – What’s your company really worth” panel (feat. the great insights of Megh Gupta, Ed Bryant and Russell Samuels) l beat a drum near and dear to our hearts at…

  • AI won’t save your product

    AI won’t save your product

    Sorry, that ๐—ฬถ๐–บฬถ๐—…ฬถ๐–ฟฬถ ฬถ๐–ปฬถ๐–บฬถ๐—„ฬถ๐–พฬถ๐–ฝฬถ brand new AI feature wonโ€™t save your product… There I said it. In fact, adding random features that none of your customers asked for really does more to alienate than attract. When we started ARRow, we had a lot of assumptions about who our product would be for and how we…

  • Sales Forecasting – Where Should I Start?

    Sales Forecasting – Where Should I Start?

    Answering some burning follow-ups from last week! In my last article, we went over why forecasting is so important to the entire organization and not just sales. Once you’ve decided to introduce a forecasting model, a whole lot of follow-up questions pop up, such as:๐Ÿค” where do I begin?๐Ÿ˜ฅ what? there’s more than one forecasting…

  • Sales Forecasting – Why should I care?

    Sales Forecasting – Why should I care?

    A little personal back story! ๐Ÿ‘€ Before building out ForecaaS Software, I was a sales and revenue operations consultant, working with a multitude of different SaaS based and tech companies to help them develop the processes and methodology to run more effective teams. Accurate forecasting is a topic near and dear to me (one might…

  • Which hat are you wearing today?

    Which hat are you wearing today?

    Whether you choose to or not, a lot of hats get worn as a founder but this new one Iโ€™m wearing intentionally and proudly:ย a new producer for Matt Gerry and his awesome YouTube channel, @CodingWithTheForce! I first came across his videos to help with some tricky bits in the early days of developing ARRow and…

  • Announcing the ForecaaS Suite

    Announcing the ForecaaS Suite

    As mentioned last week, for our big logo-series finale, rounding out the team is the Rookie of the Year, ForecaaS CPQ! Configure-Price-Quote (a.k.a CPQ) is the process used by sales teams to determine the configuration of a product, it’s pricing and providing the quote โ€“ especially necessary in SaaS where the number of product bundles…