by Stephanie Bennett | Aug 6, 2026 | Operations
Someone hands you a business plan. Maybe a founder built it over a weekend with ChatGPT. It reads clean: a TAM slide, a five-year revenue model, a competitive matrix with checkmarks in all the right boxes, and a hiring plan that somehow lines up perfectly with...
by Stephanie Bennett | Jul 30, 2026 | Operations
Institutional knowledge loss doesn’t show up on a P&L. It shows up in a Slack thread from 14 months ago nobody can find, and a new hire asking the same question three different people already answered. You’ve seen the pattern. A new account manager...
by Stephanie Bennett | Jul 23, 2026 | Operations
If you’re weighing Atlanta startup resources against what you’d get in a bigger market, Atlanta holds up well. Access to talent, a growing investor base, a supportive founder community, and cost of living that lets you extend runway further than most...
by Stephanie Bennett | Jul 9, 2026 | Operations
Operational breakdown signs rarely appear all at once. They build slowly, showing up as friction and missed handoffs months before anything actually breaks. Most founders see them but don’t recognize what they’re looking at. Here are the most common...
by Stephanie Bennett | Jul 2, 2026 | Operations
Startup scaling operations is the infrastructure most founders build too late. Most startups scale their revenue first. That’s expected. You run lean, do things manually, move fast. But there’s a moment in almost every high-growth company where the...
by Stephanie Bennett | Jun 25, 2026 | Fractional Leadership, Operations
The title exists in a lot of job postings and even more LinkedIn bios. But “fractional COO” means different things depending on who you ask. Some are pure strategy. Others are heads-down in operations every week. Most are somewhere in between. If...
