Matt Williamson

This piece was originally published on The Next 10,000 Hours blog. At Windsor Circle, we define team not by who is on the payroll or inside our four walls, but truly by everyone who is working to build the Center of the Retention Automation Universe.    This includes our employees, our service providers (attorneys, accountants, landlords, etc.), interns, and most certainly our investors. We have worked hard to find investors who share our values, see the same opportunity that we do, and who could add far more than just their dollars to our efforts.    The Two Day Board Meeting… What the? ...

This piece originally appeared on Windsor Circle CEO Matt Williamson’s The Next 10,000 Hours blog. Every quarter, Windsor Circle holds a “Team Day,” where we leave the office for a day and do three things: Volunteer in our community,  Learn about “the science of teamwork,” and,  Goof off a bit at Bull McCabes, our favorite watering hole.  In this last science-of-the-team session, we enlisted the services of Duke Corporate Education, and specifically the talented executive director, Leah Houde.        It’s important to do two things here:    Mind the Gap—Just be aware. We all have that little voice inside our heads...

Matt Williamson is CEO and co-founder of Windsor Circle, a fast-growing, Comcast Ventures-funded marketing analytics startup in Durham. This piece was originally published on his blog, The Next 10,000 Hours. Tim Oakley, CFO of Appia and former CFO of iContact (pictured here), is one of the Triangle’s best entrepreneurial executives. With multiple exits and financings under his belt, and a commitment to servant leadership, we are fortunate to have him mentoring and guiding a generation of entrepreneurs (like me!) in the Triangle (the New Entrepreneurial Hub of the South). Tim also formally does executive coaching at the Carolina Clinic at UNC. As Windsor Circle goes through the...