Category: Business Intelligence
Learn how small businesses use business intelligence to understand performance and make better decisions.
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Why Smart Founders Still Struggle to Set Priorities
Many founders pride themselves on intelligence, grit, and the ability to think fast under pressure. Yet when it comes to setting priorities, these strengths often don’t translate. It can feel jarring: how can someone capable of building products, rallying teams, and navigating complex markets still feel paralyzed when deciding what truly matters today? It’s common…
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How Founders Stay Calm: Why Calm Doesn’t Come From Time Hacks
If you’re an entrepreneur, you’ve surely scanned the room at a meetup and asked yourself how founders stay calm, while your heart is racing and you’re constantly making mental lists of the things you have to be doing right now and second-guess if what you’re doing is the best use of your time. As founders…
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Reactive vs Proactive Business: The ‘Everything Is Urgent’ Trap
Most founders will admit they spend more time responding than leading. Whether it’s an unexpected customer issue, a team conflict, or a supply chain hiccup, reactive behavior quickly becomes the default for founders, owners, operators, and early hires. So much so that urgency loses its meaning and everything feels immediate. This is especially true for…
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Why Busy Founders Make Worse Decisions and 4 Things it Impacts
Founders are wired for action, but that also means many busy founders make worse decisions when they’re vibing. We build, we iterate, we ship. But there’s a quiet cost to perpetual busyness that doesn’t get enough attention: being busy interferes with judgment. Functionally, the brain isn’t equipped to maintain high-quality decision-making when overwhelmed, chronically stressed,…
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Data Small Business Owners Need to Make Perfect Decisions: 15 Examples
Founders and owners hear a lot of talk about “big data,” usually framed as something transformative, expensive, and out of reach as an option for the data small businesses have. Most of that messaging is written for enterprise companies with dedicated analytics teams, complex systems, and budgets that make sophisticated data infrastructure realistic. For small…
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How To Decide What To Work on as a Founder: What Deserves Your Attention This Week?
It’s something we get asked often as a Business Intelligence company: tell me how to decide what to work on as a founder. As founders, operators, and builders, we live in the tension between aspiration and action. Every notification, request, and “urgent” email clamors for our attention. By mid-week it’s common to feel like you’ve…
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If Everything Is a Priority, Nothing Is: How Founders Lose Focus
When everything is a priority, nothing is. As founders, we’re conditioned to juggle a hundred demands at once. There’s always a list of priorities begging for attention, and the instinctive response most of us develop (unconsciously) is to try to address them all. It feels responsible. It feels productive. It can even feel heroic. But…
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Founder Firefighting: How Small Problems Masquerade as Emergencies
Ah, the timeless pain of founder firefighting. As founders, we quickly learn that our days get hijacked by “fires.” A customer bug here, a revenue dip there, a slack thread that lights up like a distress flare. Over time, this pattern begins to feel normal, and often, almost inevitable. But this lived normalcy masks a…
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A Hard Balance: Urgent vs Important In Small Business
It can be hard for founders and owners to draw a line when it comes to urgent vs important in small business. In the daily flux of running a small business, it’s common to feel like everything urgently demands your attention. When the phones are ringing, inboxes are filling, clients are pushing, and metrics keep…
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Stressed? 4 Devastating Reasons Why Everything Feels Urgent, And Why Most of It Isn’t
Everything feels urgent at work! At some point in their career, almost every founder or operator feels like everything at work is pressing, critical, or urgent. The inbox is full. Slack pings demand immediate attention. Meetings fill up your calendar. Tasks stack up faster than you can cross them off. When this happens, it’s easy…
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100 Different Industries With Business Intelligence Use Cases for Smarter Growth
Business Intelligence use cases are abound, yet the industry has a branding problem. For years, it’s been framed as something reserved for massive enterprises with data teams, custom dashboards, and six-figure software contracts. The result is that many startups and small-to-midsize businesses still assume BI is either overkill, too expensive, or something they’ll “grow into…
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Exclusive: Business Intelligence for Small Businesses and How to Make Clearer, More Confident Decisions
Most small business owners are already doing some version of Business Intelligence. They just don’t call it that. They call it “trying to understand what happened last month,” or “figuring out why sales dipped,” or “deciding whether the next hire should be a marketing contractor or a part-time employee.” In other words, BI is the…
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There’s Power in a Pivot (What You Can Learn From Garvescope’s Change to Business Intelligence)
Every startup hits that moment where the product starts teaching you more than you’re teaching it. To savvy entreprene-nerds, there’s an art and necessity to a business pivot. Garvescope was built to help filmmakers understand their data and build successful businesses, but somewhere along the way we realized the problem wasn’t pigeonholed to film: it…
