Per ACLU report, ICE deported three US citizen children and denied access to legal counsel. Scared to find out if this is also not the bridge too far for Trump voters. This could’ve happened to my family when my parents and I were LPRs, but my younger brother was a US Citizen.

Last call to join the SMB/ETA golf league! Play at your own courses, just one round every 2 weeks starting May 1. Your best 6 out of 8 rounds count, so you can miss up to two rounds. Sign ups close today, and we already have 38 participants!

These are incredible margins. What a great time to exit too. It also supports Jon Matzner ‘s whole thesis around eating competitor margins as he builds out Sagan.

Wednesday morning vibes… Oh-WAH-AH-AH-AH

SMBros/eComBros who voted for Trump because he’d be good for (their) business right now: 🤯🤯🤯

In today’s “so you want to be a small business owner” moment, cops had to arrest a random guy who was passed out high inside one of our company cars. He tried to claim that we gave him permission to sleep in it…

Today’s recording session of The Intentional Owner with Sam Rosati may have to be done over my cell phone hotspot. Turned the WiFi off at my old place and new place WiFi gets installed on Thursday 🙄 I hate moving so much.

Well, Sam Rosati and I have now recorded 12 episodes of The Intentional Owner podcasts (10 have been released so far) and I'm having a ton of fun. But would always appreciate any thoughts/feedback you may have if you've given any of them a listen!

I've posted three Excel video tutorials (sponsored by The Operator Accelerator). Topics: - QuickBooks to Excel Reporting - Building a Weekly Revenue Forecasting Tool - Using Toggles in SMB Deal Modeling All in my blog, thanks to Chase Murdock and John Seiffer for sponsoring!

New wifi at my new place, try and stop me now

The Subie can handle a little job fix…and you can see the remnants of our team party last week + my golf game this weekend.

I’ll use this to justify taking big time leverage with a PG and going all-in on one small business. (Jk — watch the video, it’s good but does not really apply to illiquid assets.)

Some wild opinions in the responses, many illegal. For fairness, we set a policy for advances: - 1 yr min tenure to be eligible - advance of up to 25% of last paycheck - deducted over next 6 paychecks in equal installments - advances can be requested once per 6 months max

Is gas the only common purchase that is priced to 9/10s of a cent? Seems like an annoying price grab every retailer could do without much pushback.

If you’re planning to raise investor capital or be an investor, this one is for you.

We’re back with more podcasts. Check it out — how we think about the first 90 days post-close, one of the most common questions I get.

Always fun to chat with Lisa & Sarah at Live Oak. We bounced around a ton of topics in this one, hope you enjoy!

Pretty excited about today’s episode of The Intentional Owner - Kaustubh Deo - Guesswork Investing and I were joined by our first guest, Chase Murdock, CEO of the Decada Group. Give it a listen!