> we truly have no one in the company who has been here before, and that is a problem.
I have bad news: Nobody has been there before.
Perhaps they have managed $10M rev companies before, but they haven't managed your $10M company. No matter what, the prescription is going to be the same:
1. Make serious, solid decisions,
2. Get some of the right
3. Get some of them wrong
4. Course-correct the wrong ones.
I'm taking a wild guess here, but is there any chance the real problem is that you are a bunch of friends? ie, that there is no one with final authority? If so, that will not be solved with a hire.
Anyway, good luck. We should all have such high-quality problems. (btw, currently bootstrapped to 1/10th your number. Prior company founded was an $80M VC-funded company.)
I have bad news: Nobody has been there before.
Perhaps they have managed $10M rev companies before, but they haven't managed your $10M company. No matter what, the prescription is going to be the same:
1. Make serious, solid decisions,
2. Get some of the right
3. Get some of them wrong
4. Course-correct the wrong ones.
I'm taking a wild guess here, but is there any chance the real problem is that you are a bunch of friends? ie, that there is no one with final authority? If so, that will not be solved with a hire.
Anyway, good luck. We should all have such high-quality problems. (btw, currently bootstrapped to 1/10th your number. Prior company founded was an $80M VC-funded company.)