Meeting
Chris/Andy Founder Accountability Session
Gist
Chris and Andy Milligan held their regular founder accountability call. Andy walked through an agency valuation/exit-readiness diagnostic he purchased, and Chris pushed back on hiring a head of ops first, arguing a part-time project/account manager (US-based, camera-ready) should come before that, drawing on his own experience with Dawn. They also covered Andy's podcast repositioning around healthcare marketing ICPs, a screenshot-analysis industry report project, and Chris debated whether to renew his EO membership, leaning toward not renewing and instead growing his agency leaders lunch club and content-day events.
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What came out of it
Decisions2
- Chris is leaning toward not renewing his EO membership for the coming term.
- Chris plans to make the agency leaders lunch club his recurring baseline networking event, run monthly regardless of venue.
Risks and blockers4
- Andy's proposed first strategic hire (head of ops) may be premature given the business's current revenue size, per Chris's pushback.
- A near-shore hire with weak English/communication could undercut client trust despite being competent.
- Chris flagged he's been over-indexing on building internal tools with AI (like a CMS) instead of higher-leverage work like outreach and content.
- Chris has not posted to LinkedIn, sent email newsletters, or hosted events in weeks, which he flagged as drift from his usual cadence.
Open questions3
- Will Chris ultimately renew or drop his EO membership, and can he replace its value with something homegrown?
- Should the agency lunch club be rebranded away from Tiven's concept/name to be fully Chris's own brand?
- What is Andy's exact 30-day plan to prepare for the Atlanta trip in October?
Next steps6
- VendorAndy will send Chris the login/document for the agency exit-readiness diagnostic tool.
- MeChris will remove the 'under construction' text and fix the inconsistent logo colors on the BLDR staging site.
- MeChris will pre-schedule multiple agency leaders lunch club dates on his calendar to invite people ahead of time.
- MeChris will pursue booking two video content days with interested hosts who have space and networks.
- MeChris will follow up on getting the video content day added to a partner's large event registration.
- VendorAndy will follow up to get introduced to the WebFlow contact who might fund an event.
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