Open Decision-Making In my experience as the founder and CEO of two startups I have had numerous opportunities to observe decisions being made: technical decisions about how to build products, personnel decisions about whom to hire, business decisions about how to market and sell our products, strategic decisions about company direction and financing, and many others. In some cases I believe we made the decisions in an effective fashion, but in other cases I was unhappy with either the result or the process. In looking back over those decisions I have found a framework for decision-making that explains both the successes and failures. This essay describes the framework;