I find winning ideas through validation not ’brainstorming’. Boring space of aging, here I come. No of people 65+ will double to 2040. It’s THE trend rn. Here’s how I came up and am validating the idea. (With AI) #businessvalidation #businessidea #businesstrends

What would it take to create the SpaceX of Nuclear, cutting costs by 10x? For rockets, the answer was obvious: Make them re-usable. What is the equivalent insight for reactors? 🧵

EBITDA ratios every investor should know:

Most of the businesses I love don't depend on superstar hires—they thrive on simple systems almost anyone can follow. Scale and bring down employee cost.

Urgency and focus. The more successful people I meet the more goated those two traits become.

1/ AI and Crypto (Part I): Decentralizing AI—Big Dreams, Bigger Hype? This is the first thread 🧵and article in a four-part series delving into the intersection of crypto and AI. Buckle Up!

In 1986, a young comedian walked off stage at Yuk Yuk's Comedy Club and vowed never to perform again. That same year, he was diagnosed with cancer. His name was Norm Macdonald, and his story would change comedy forever. Here's what happened:

Experimenting with a new biz validation stack: 1. Get new biz idea 2. Use AI to create 100+ blog articles about said idea 3. Track results with GA/Search Console 4. Collect emails from traffic 5. Launch new biz with built-in audience and authority

Intensity is worth so much more than what the average person thinks it's worth.

Want to start a business? Not sure what to do? Start with content. Always start with content.

It's incredible how far you can get in life by doing the boring things that everyone is capable of doing. Showing up on time, following up with people, working long hours, keeping focused... People overcomplicate success so much that they lose the plot.

Always optimizing for optionality is so much more awful and insidious than it appears. Something happens when you start focusing on one objective/project instead of the usual 2 to 3 I see most people wrestling with. You obviously make more progress faster on that one objective,

What happens to SaaS when it's just as easy to create a product as it is to write a blog pots? The future is marketing and stickiness.

Willingness to cold call is the defining characteristic of a successful deal flow system. That advantage vanishes in the next 12 to 18 months once AI gets good enough and everyone starts doing it.

We've been running different outbound approaches to find M&A deals over the past few weeks. I knew multi-channel would crush single-channel campaigns but didn't think adding a cold call as the last step would be so impactful.

Sent 639 emails to MSP owners and got a 9% reply rate. 7x our average. The level of personalization possible today is wild. - Sales Navigator: Build a targeted list - PhantomBuster: Extract owner and company info plus latest posts - Hunter.io: Generate & validate

I'm so bullish on what AI will become in the next five years that I wouldn't touch any knowledge work companies at this point.

I’ve MAYBE seen two good deals from brokers all year. Furthers my hypothesis that good deals mostly come through BD. Build a system, crank volume, go a little insane. 50 outreaches a day minimum.

After an incredible run at Trivest, I’m launching a new chapter as an Independent Sponsor focused on customer obsessed service companies in 🇨🇦🇺🇸 Same mission. More flexibility. Fewer Zooms. Onwards and Upwards 🚀 Shout out to all the inspiring IS and PE folks on here

on sourcing and whatnot (thanks for the prompt TK): I'll share some context and some beliefs (we are constantly asking ourselves "where are we wrong?" and "how can we make this better?")