Being able to tweet out where I’m traveling in the U.S. and have interesting awesome people reach out to meetup is soooooo cool. I don’t think this would be possible without doing the social media thing, but more importantly doing the van life thing. Also - not tweeting generic

I’ve been living in Greenwich, CT for 10 hours and so far: - free overnight parking in downtown - $9 parking 9am-5pm - $5.81 latte Such an affordable, cute city to live in. So nice to stumble on an undiscovered gem

If you’re broke and destitute, do yourself a favor a) buy a van to live in b) move to Greenwich, CT c) park your van in front of the country club and offer van tours Someone will gravitate towards your crazy energy and offer you a job on the spot. Results may vary Rent in

In 3 months I am is hosting a manufacturing retreat in Atlanta Gathering 10-20 manufacturing business owners for a couple days to tour a couple large manufacturing companies and do some owner Q&A with relationship building time in between Does anyone know of a good sponsor for

Attention: U.S. manufacturers!! We are hosting a manufacturing business owner retreat in Atlanta, September 16-19th. Bringing together 15-20 other manufacturing business owners from across the country to go on 2 large manufacturing facility tours, and have intentional

Well done Rand Larsen

Acquired a furniture company today! I love including my family in these wins. So excited for the next chapter 💪

I've been asked a number of times: how can I come across more like a leader? Usually people have an idea in their head of what a confident "leader" looks & sounds like, based on people they've seen. I want to offer a different & very effective way to think about this that I've

SMB X community: Do we know any helicopter operators in Central Texas that can help with searching for missing people and kids in Kerrville? Help is needed

Inexperienced business owner: Hires someone they think will be great, notices a handful of red flags quickly, screws up basic things, doesn't have the right attitude, but they keep them for a few months hoping for change experienced business owner: Fires that person in the

Want to see the reality of buying a business? Here's 5 months of uncensored updates from an acquirer in our peer group… the wins, disasters, and near-death experiences most people won't share publicly. Keeping this anon for obvious reasons 2/13 Closed acquisition #2 three

Without responding with a full essay, I’ll say briefly: I have run free, highly curated peer groups I have run paid, highly curated peer groups. When people don’t invest *something* into the group, they have less desire to get something out of it. A hell of a lot of the value

I talked to Justin right after his Acquiring Minds pod was released. Posting to increase reach. Hoping he can find a solution with the assistance of Live Oak Bank.

Business owner in a peer group call today: “Literally everyone undercapitalizes their [acquisition].” “if I can offer any advice to anyone who calls me at this point, it is that whatever amount the bank is willing to give you in working capital, ask for more.” “ask for

A nice nugget today from Rand Larsen (Rand Larsen) from his Scalepath newsletter

Do I have any builders or owners in my network who work in the Orlando area? Pricing something in this market and could use some help on either intros or insight on some costs.

A peer group member of ours has a $70,000,000+ construction project in Orlando and he needs some recommended vendors in the following areas Concrete Fire line installation Asphalt Hauling Commercial plumbing If anyone can help him out here (by commenting/DMing me), that’d be