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Problems, not symptoms.
Writing on building, scaling, and running SMEs. Operating systems, B2B consulting, AI for SMEs — by Dancho Dimkov.
If you're a 10–50 person SME founder feeling more exhausted as revenue grows, the problem is probably structural. Seven signs your business has crossed the line — and what to do about it.
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Honest comparison of the three operating systems most often considered by SMEs in 2026. Side-by-side table, deep dives, and a four-question decision framework.
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The B2B consulting industry is unusually good at hiding its failures. Five questions to ask any consultant before you sign — and what their answers tell you about how the engagement will actually go.
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If you can't take two consecutive weeks off without daily check-ins, your business depends on you personally. A 12-month month-by-month playbook to fix it — decision rules, metrics, delegation, processes, leadership layer.
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The three roles sound similar. They're radically different. Full-time COO, fractional COO, or consultant — a decision framework with costs, when each wins, and how to avoid the €50K mis-hire most SMEs make.
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Most SME process documentation fails the same way. Here's the version that works: 20 specific processes across 4 clusters, one page each, written for the person doing the work. Plus the one-page template and the cadence.
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Cold email isn't dead — mass cold email is. LinkedIn automation isn't dead — obvious automation is. An honest status-of-the-industry report from 600+ campaigns at BizzBee: five approaches that work, four that don't, and the structural shifts that made the old playbook stop working.
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A bad €50K hire costs €120K–€150K once you count all six buckets: compensation, hiring cost, ramp write-off, opportunity cost, morale drag, customer damage. The honest math — and the four patterns that cause most SME mis-hires.
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SMEs fail at AI because they start with tools instead of problems. The seven places that actually pay off in a 10–100 person business — meeting notes, support triage, proposal drafting, sales research, spreadsheet automation, knowledge search, financial anomaly flagging.
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Most SMEs track 15–50 weekly metrics. Almost all are vanity. The five that actually change decisions: cash runway, CAC/LTV, net revenue retention, team delivery velocity, forecast accuracy. Plus the three-test filter that kills every other dashboard line.
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