How to Crowdsource Your Fundraise with Sweater CEO Jesse Randall
When you start a company, funding should be at the top of your mind. However, not every class of funding is available to everyone and the opportunity for funding can become slim. That’s where companies like Sweater come in. Listen in as Eric speaks with Jesse Randall, CEO and Founder at Sweater, about the difficulty […]
How to Make Your Employees Happier with Motivosity CTO Jesse Dowdle
One of the most difficult aspects of running a business, especially a startup, is finding and retaining exceptional talent. With the great resignation, many employees have asked themselves if they feel valued, fulfilled, and excited about their job. With retention playing such a key role to your startups success, it’s important to understand what happiness […]
Welcome To Chaos To Clarity
Welcome to Chaos To Clarity, a podcast about entrepreneurship, growth, and the journey to success. On this show, executive coach and host Eric Weiss sits down with great leaders to discuss the chaos of holding together a growing company as it nearly comes apart at the seams and the guidance they received to walk the […]
War and Peace: Changing Your Leadership to Meet a New Economic Environment
As we enter a recession, the tech industry is in turmoil. Term sheets have been pulled, valuations cut, and founders scramble to reduce their burn rate. How do we understand, plan and assess for this economic paradigm shift?
Engineer Your Organization: How to Turn Your Talent Pipeline Into a Team Factory
During heavy growth phases, we can sometimes spin up multiple new teams each month. We may try to onboard and organize those teams consistently, but more often they form organically, take on their own identity and culture, and mutate significantly from the teams you managed when your company was small.
Being able to quickly spin up effective teams is not only necessary to grow, it’s an existential imperative. After reaching product-market fit, the #1 reason growth stage companies fail is due to mismanaged growth.
The Talent Crisis: How to Build an A-Team Talent Pipeline in the Post-Pandemic World
Whether you know it or not, talent is your #1 problem right now. The COVID-19 lockdown has accelerated the Digitization of Everything. Every human interaction has gone online, so the demand for software engineers has exploded. With the transition to remote work, Big Tech has eaten up all the great talent.
Want to Really Innovate? Talk to More Customers: A Winning Playbook for Customer Interviews
If I had to pick one thing that every product team should do that would unlock the most inspiration, insight, and growth, it would be customer interviews. When clients ask me what they should be doing to build better products, I always tell them “Just start talking to customers!” Once they do, it becomes a wellspring of enlightenment, inspiration, and innovation.
Eric’s Comprehensive Reading List for Agile Software Development Teams
I’m a voracious reader. When I approach any challenge with my teams or clients, I always look for a book or framework that helps frame the problem and guide me to the best solution. Here is my essential list of books for every agile practitioner.
Case Study: ecoATM
In this case study, I’ll show you how I coached a large, over-burdened engineering organization to take ownership of and improve their leadership, teamwork, process, and operations.
Case Study: Sendlane
In this case study, I’ll show you how I coached a fast-growing marketing automation platform to overcome three key existential crises at once.