James Colgan’s Beyond the Build Newsletter

Welcome to Beyond the Build — a newsletter for founders, product leaders, and investors who care about building SaaS companies that scale sustainably.

I write from the trenches of 20 years in product leadership at Microsoft, Slack, Spendesk, and Envoy—plus my current work advising dozens of early- and growth-stage startups.

Each issue unpacks what actually moves the needle: product-led growth, product-led sales, strategic clarity, and the unit economics behind real traction.

No fluff, just practical insights you can apply this week.

We’re not just shipping code. We go Beyond the Build to massively scale.

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