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Ownership · 1 min read

Build vs. buy is the wrong question

The real question is which tools run your business, and who should hold those.

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Process · 1 min readOff spreadsheets in six weeks

How we take a business from a fragile spreadsheet to an app it owns, one week at a time.

Jonah Price
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Costs · 1 min readThe real cost of a SaaS seat

A $40 seat is never $40. Add the seats you forgot, the tier you were pushed into and the tools that glue it together.

Maya Okafor
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Ownership · 1 min readWhat owning your code actually means

Ownership isn't a philosophy. It's a repository, a database and a hosting account with your name on them.

Dev Ramanathan
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