Studio Life in Hospitality
Hospitality Software Was Built for Someone Else
Hospitality software was built for retail and bent to fit. Why the industry got hand-me-downs, and the category nobody has built yet.
Insights
Field notes from building ventures and advising operators.
Executive Playbooks
Cloud Cost Optimization Is Engineering, Not Billing
Cloud cost optimization is an engineering discipline. Where the recoverable 20 to 40% actually hides, and how to sequence the work by ROI.
Founders & Funders
Startup Fundraising Is a Purchase, Not a Milestone
Startup fundraising sells a permanent piece of your company to buy temporary time. What the round is for, read from the cap table.
Studio Life in Hospitality
Your Restaurant Tech Stack Breaks at the Same Seams
Every restaurant tech stack tears in the same four places. The layers, the seams, and what a stack built for the shift would do instead.
Executive Playbooks
AWS Cost Optimization Checklist for Scaling Teams
AWS cost optimization, item by item. Right-sizing, Savings Plans, Spot, Graviton, storage tiering, and the tradeoff each one carries.
Founders & Funders
How to Raise a Seed Round Without Losing the Company
How to raise a seed round from the seat of a co-founder who gets diluted with you. What the money buys, what it costs, and when to start.
Studio Life in Hospitality
Hotel Technology Integration and Why It Keeps Failing
Hotel technology integration fails for structural reasons, not lazy vendors. Why PMS, POS and channel systems stay apart, and what to do.
Executive Playbooks
Reduce Cloud Costs Without Losing Engineering Speed
Every way to reduce cloud costs trades money for something else. Which cuts are safe at your stage, and which ones quietly cost you more.
Founders & Funders
Series A Fundraising Buys a Different Kind of Proof
Series A fundraising underwrites a machine, not a story. What the lead tests, how diligence runs, and what to do when you are not ready.
Studio Life in Hospitality
Restaurant Software Integration Is Not a License Fee
Restaurant software integration is not a license cost. Price the labor, the errors, the connector fees and the stale decisions instead.
Executive Playbooks
FinOps Is an Operating Discipline, Not a Cost Tool
FinOps is not cost cutting or a tool you buy. It is the discipline that makes engineers accountable for the cost of their design choices.
Founders & Funders
Pitch Deck Is a Trailer, Not the Film Investors Buy
A pitch deck has one job, to get the next meeting. What each slide has to prove, what to cut, and what a weak slide quietly signals.
Studio Life in Hospitality
All in One Restaurant Software vs Best of Breed
All in one restaurant software or best of breed? The honest case for each, plus four questions that settle the choice for your site.
Executive Playbooks
Cloud Cost Management Needs an Owner, Not a Tool
Cloud cost management is not a tool purchase. What native, third-party and open-source tools do well, and the two jobs no tool will ever do.
Founders & Funders
How to Pitch Investors When They Are Triaging You
How to pitch investors is a question about the room, not the deck. What the first 90 seconds decide, and what the follow-up asks reveal.
Studio Life in Hospitality
Hospitality Management Platform Built for the Shift
What a hospitality management platform would actually do across the guest, the workforce and the property, and why nobody has built one yet.
Executive Playbooks
Azure Cost Optimization Starts With Your Licensing
Azure cost optimization is not an AWS checklist. Hybrid Benefit, reservations, savings plans, Advisor, and where the money actually sits.
Founders & Funders
Startup Valuation Is a Price You Have to Grow Into
Startup valuation is a negotiated price, not a calculation. Round size, dilution and fund math set the number long before any model does.