The First Weekly
November 17, 2023
When I was at NYCHA, I sent out a Friday memo every week to my whole team that gave some top-line highlights from me, along with a giant table of updates on everything everyone was working on – what had moved, what was stuck and rolling over week to week, etc. I kept at it because it made me sit down and review the entire universe of stuff every week, and assuming anyone read it, gave folks a really quick way to see what was going on around them (we had a LOT of irons in the fire at any given time).
Fast forward to last week, I read on a blog post that the weekly email is some kind of best practice! No time like the present to start following best practice, right?
Revenue
Section titled “Revenue”-
New revenue this week: NYU Dorms ($17k) - Yay!
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2023 ARR: $301,130
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2023 New customers: 11
And because we’re headed toward end of year:
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Old revenue collected this week: B+W Q2 ($4k) - Yay!
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Outstanding invoices as of Nov 1: $156,188.10
This Week’s Highlights
Section titled “This Week’s Highlights”-
Sales wins - Before we could even sufficiently celebrate AEA, Marc landed NYU!
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GGRF meetings off the starting blocks - Kudos to Marc, Erika, and Jessica Luk-Li on getting face time with all the major players. Fingers crossed, and seems like we have a lot of learning/cogitating to do
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Wrapping up phase one of HOE - Big-ol thanks to Reuben on doing something like 60 interviews to get us to this point.
On Deck for Next Week
Section titled “On Deck for Next Week”-
Willdan 2024 wish list - reviewing Willdan priorities. Important hurdle for contract negotiation.
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Head of Engineering interviews - we’ve reached all-hands level with this search. Thank you, Chuck, Jason, Robin, and Erika for pitching in!
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Regaining balance on releases - need to keep seeing progress toward a testing and release process we can live with for a while!
And here’s what’s on my radar screen - what am I forgetting?