Field Notes

From Stages and Size to Circles and Paths

Phil Zuckerman

For some time now, I’ve been thinking about the stages of business growth. Not just in the abstract. Not just as a tidy framework. But as a real question: How...

From Stages and Size to Circles and Paths

Phil Zuckerman

For some time now, I’ve been thinking about the stages of business growth. Not just in the abstract. Not just as a tidy framework. But as a real question: How...

Building at the Speed of Soon-to-be 75

Phil Zuckerman

Over the past several days, I have found myself returning to a simple realization: Toppertunity is evolving not through assertion, but through attention. Each meaningful change has come not from...

Building at the Speed of Soon-to-be 75

Phil Zuckerman

Over the past several days, I have found myself returning to a simple realization: Toppertunity is evolving not through assertion, but through attention. Each meaningful change has come not from...

Building an Impact Index (and What Broke Along ...

Phil Zuckerman

Over the past 48 hours, we set out to answer a deceptively simple question so that we can better understand what resources might deliver impact to entrepreneurs — at least...

Building an Impact Index (and What Broke Along ...

Phil Zuckerman

Over the past 48 hours, we set out to answer a deceptively simple question so that we can better understand what resources might deliver impact to entrepreneurs — at least...

What We’re Learning

Phil Zuckerman

Over the past several weeks, I’ve been quietly inviting people to use Toppertunity while I observe. I’m not pitching it, not narrating it, and not explaining it unless they get...

What We’re Learning

Phil Zuckerman

Over the past several weeks, I’ve been quietly inviting people to use Toppertunity while I observe. I’m not pitching it, not narrating it, and not explaining it unless they get...

Building the “Save to My Library” Function at T...

Phil Zuckerman

This week we built something small. A button. But underneath that button is identity, memory, and agency. We added a “Save to My Library” function to Toppertunity. On thesurface, it...

Building the “Save to My Library” Function at T...

Phil Zuckerman

This week we built something small. A button. But underneath that button is identity, memory, and agency. We added a “Save to My Library” function to Toppertunity. On thesurface, it...

Building Toppertunity in Public

Phil Zuckerman

There is no shortage of advice for entrepreneurs. There are podcasts, books, newsletters, masterminds, frameworks, growth hacks, AI prompts, playbooks, and systems promising clarity, scale, relief, or freedom. The question...

Building Toppertunity in Public

Phil Zuckerman

There is no shortage of advice for entrepreneurs. There are podcasts, books, newsletters, masterminds, frameworks, growth hacks, AI prompts, playbooks, and systems promising clarity, scale, relief, or freedom. The question...