SMBs compete best on speed, agility, and transparency. Aspen Egan grew up at Blip—and Blip has grown up right alongside her.  In the last 6 years, Aspen has gone from HR intern to Senior Manager of Business and People Operations. In that time, she’s helped see the company through huge periods of growth. She’s overseen […]

A practical guide to growing teams without killing the culture that made you successful. Building people operations for a growing startup is the ultimate Goldilocks problem.  Too little structure creates chaos. Too much kills your culture.  Finding that perfect middle ground is the key to your team being able to excel in the places that […]

How can you build a product roadmap that actually ships? Focus on friction points, customer POV, and balancing big wins with the sure bets. For product teams, constrained resources are a double-edged sword. On the one hand, budget limitations mean you can’t execute on as many ideas at once. But at the same time, they […]

Your greatest competitive edge isn’t in the features you build, it’s in how well you teach your customers to use them. The most successful businesses don’t just hand products over and tell users to figure it out.  They teach their customers to succeed.  After all, if you give a man a fish….well, you know the […]