This event is exclusive to CEOs, owners, and leaders of second-stage businesses. 

Join us for the next GrowFL Breakfast Boost on March 24, 2027, at 8:30am at USI Insurance Services in Tampa, FL featuring Robin Weston, CEO, Compendium Technology Solutions.

What to Expect:

Every growing company hits the same wall: the technology decisions that worked at 5 employees start breaking at 50. The tools you chose because they were fast, cheap or familiar become the very things slowing you down.

In this session, Robin Weston of Compendium Technology Solutions breaks down how the technology purchase process should evolve alongside The Entrepreneur’s Journey. From the early days of founder-led, gut-feel buying to the inflection point where businesses need a structured, vendor-agnostic approach, Robin maps the common patterns, and the costly mistakes, he sees across mid-market companies throughout Florida.

It’s a framework for thinking about when, how and why your approach to evaluating and purchasing technology needs to mature as your business does. You’ll learn the warning signs that your current process has outgrown your existing technology.

Whether you’re running a 20-person team that’s duct-taping solutions together or leading a 200-person operation wondering why your infrastructure costs keep climbing, this conversation will give you a lens to evaluate where you stand, and what to do about it.

Robin is a vendor-agnostic technology consultant and the sole Trusted Technology Advisor in the GrowFL network

Key Takeaways:

• A framework for matching your technology buying maturity to your business stage — so you can identify whether your current approach is appropriate for where you are or a holdover from where you were.
• The specific warning signs that your technology purchasing process has outgrown your company — including the patterns that signal you’re overspending, under-evaluating or locked into vendor relationships that no longer serve you.
• A clear picture of how technology decisions compound as you scale — and why the cost of a wrong choice at 50 employees is fundamentally different than the cost of the same choice at 15.