Felix Velarde

Average first-year growth for agencies using our framework: 164%. Most double or triple in 18-24 months. Several got acquired at well above market rate. Free 2-minute diagnostic: scorecard.felixvelarde.com

Your C-players aren't bad people. They might be great somewhere else. The day you make the call, someone will say "I don't know why you didn't do that months ago." They always do. scorecard.felixvelarde.com

Over time this quietly degrades everything. You can't scale with a team that's slowly getting worse. Fix it: - Write down what "good" actually looks like for each role - Stop interviewing on gut feel - Build a pipeline before you're desperate

Something nobody tells you about hiring until it's too late.

This is how I work with agencies now. Big goal on the horizon. Small, paced steps to get there. Five things per quarter. One per person. Your team doesn't need to see the whole mountain. They need the next tree. scorecard.felixvelarde.com

An hour later we stopped. He mentioned a tree full of birds further up. Then lunch at a family's home. Then a bench with the first view of Annapurna. If he'd told me the truth at the start I'd have stayed on the bus.

A Himalayan guide taught me more about running a business than 25 years of actually running one.

I used to come back from conferences and blow up my own company. Called them "change grenades." Same result every time: eye-rolling, nothing implemented, another grenade next week. Took 25 years to learn that 5 tasks per quarter beats 50 ideas on a Monday morning. scorecard.felixvelarde.com

Nucco Brain → Unit9 MomentumABM → Accenture Verb Brands → Croud Deeson → TPXImpact Different agencies. Different sectors. Same framework. scorecard.felixvelarde.com

@meetahsen I get them to thumb wrestle ;)

@felixv moltbook's a solid start but wait until you have to debug a multi-agent deadlock at 3am. what's your fallback when two agents claim they completed the same task?

I just made the Moltbook Agent video course free of charge – 14 chapters in 28 minutes, go make your own Moltbook / OpenClaw agent :) moltbookagents.net/course.html

The biggest thing stopping your agency growing is probably you. When every decision runs through the founder, the founder's capacity becomes the ceiling. Getting up earlier won't fix it. scorecard.felixvelarde.com

Pilot-induced oscillation: when a pilot overcorrects so hard the plane crashes. That's every agency I've ever seen. Too busy to sell. Then not busy enough. Panic. Repeat. Did it myself for 15 years before I worked out it was structural. scorecard.felixvelarde.com

Best business advice I ever got: 3% a month. Compounds to 100% in two years. $2M becomes $4M. 20 tasks a year. Five per quarter. One per person. Boring. Works. scorecard.felixvelarde.com

Avoid @goGreenGeeks like the plague – incompetent and incapable. Four days of hell so far - their "support" system is a Kafkaesque nightmare, and their ability to break things through idiocy is unmatched. Costly, frustrating and – after 17 years as a customer – relationship-ending. #shithosting #vpshosting #ctohosting

Every agency I've worked with hit the same wall at about twelve people and $1M. Nothing to do with talent or the market. The generalist model just breaks at that size. Took me 25 years to figure that out. Would've been useful to know earlier. scorecard.felixvelarde.com

Weekend project: Get your own AI agent on Moltbook. While the rest of Twitter debates whether agents will replace us, you could just... have your own agent. $35. Takes 20 minutes. We do the setup. moltbookagents.net/setup.html #openclaw #moltbookagent

403 people tried to buy a Moltbook agent setup at $179. We dropped it to $35. Same service. Your own AI agent, configured and live on Moltbook in 20 minutes. While agents are all over the news — get yours set up: moltbookagents.net

If you're genuinely into your coffees, this one is for you... #coffeelover #coffee #coffeetime #canada