Decision Forks

What is stopping a working pilot from reaching production?

Should you launch the thing that takes revenue from your best business?

When do you reverse a position, and what does a year of waiting cost?

How much does this bet commit before anybody outside the company acts on it?

How much of your decline can the agreed explanation actually account for?

What did the decision you did not take actually cost?

How long does your next chief executive actually get?

Is the company worth more in pieces, or only worth reporting in pieces?

What would it cost to leave, and what does waiting cost if you leave anyway?

What made the first product work, and how much of it does the second one inherit?

Has the thing your headline number stands for kept up with the number?

What did the cut buy, and what would buying it back cost?

How long can you carry the capacity before the demand has to arrive?

What is your backlog actually worth, and when does it arrive?

What has not been put into what you operate?

The leverage is fine until it is not: what does the covenant require, and when?

What does being public cost you, and what does it buy that staying private does not?

Customers still use it and it does not pay; what does retiring it cost?

How much dilution buys how many months, and what do those months have to produce?

What is worth doing out of the light, and what does the debt to get there demand?

The system works and cannot be changed, so what does rebuilding cost against carrying it?

How much of the price to make contingent, and what the earn-out costs when it is paid or fought?