Money
The cost of running a 10-person agency in Beirut
Beirut offers a structural cost advantage over US-EU hubs for digital agencies, but the savings come with friction that does not show in any line item.
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operations
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Articles tagged operations
Operations
Performance reviews for small teams: the minimum viable version
Most small teams copy enterprise review systems that are already broken. The fix is a weekly check-in and a quarterly forward-looking conversation.
Product
Feature flags that survived: lessons from LaunchDarkly, Flagsmith, GrowthBook
Why the A/B testing framing oversold the category, and what the market actually rewards.
Money
Services pricing: the floor, the anchor, the ceiling
Across legal, agency, and MSP services, pricing in 2026 has converged on a three-point structure — floor, anchor, ceiling — and the operators who document it follow the same
Operations
Outsourcing vs in-house: the math at scale
Why the outsource-vs-in-house decision is a coordination question, not a cost question, and how to find the real inflection point.
Money
USD invoicing from MENA: the mechanics
The four infrastructure paths for receiving USD into a MENA business, their failure modes, and a working stack for 2026.
Operations
All-hands meetings: who killed them and why
Why the all-hands meeting is disappearing from mid-stage companies and what replaces it: recorded updates, written memos, and async video.
Growth
Why Your Growth Stack Needs a Human-in-the-Loop (and How to Design It)
Why the most effective growth systems intentionally keep a human in the loop, and how to build that layer without becoming a bottleneck.