About Dave Crane

I built Doggie Beer Bones from 2010 through its sale in 2024. Co-manufacturers, production runs, reorder points, which vendor to call when a shipment slipped. All of it lived in my head, and for years that was fine. Then it was the thing slowing everything down.

Running alongside those 14 years were 16 at Qualcomm, where I built and managed operations and systems at global enterprise scale as a Senior Systems Analyst. Before either, I was a Motor Transport Operator in the Marine Corps. I spent a stretch of it running parts and a budget for a 5-ton shop, which was my first real lesson in what happens when nobody writes down how something works. That combination of enterprise rigor and small business hustle is what keeps my frameworks practical instead of theoretical.

Now I work with owners who are where I was. The business works because you're holding it together, and that's exactly what puts a ceiling on it. What I do is get how it runs out of your head and onto paper, so it can be handed to someone else.

Every engagement starts the same way: an honest look at how the business runs today and where the time and money are actually going. From there we build something that holds up without me.

Our first conversation is free, and it's the right place to find out whether we're a fit.