Boost Sales Team to 3x More ICP Meetings Weekly
Is your sales team hitting 3x more ICP meetings a week? by @Timothy_Hughes https://t.co/wnQyykiAAs @DLAIgnite #SocialSelling #DigitalSelling #Sales #SalesTips #SalesLeader #Salesforce #Leadership #Marketing #MarketingStrategy #MarketingSuccess #SalesEnablement https://t.co/8KIclOUA82
War and Inflation Likely Cancel Fed Rate Cuts This Year
Markets were expecting two to three rate cuts from the Fed this year until Trump’s War in Iran began to wreak financial havoc. With inflation picking up, it looks like we might not get any rate cuts at all this...
Never Discount without Securing Value in Return
Founders: Don't give discounts without getting something back: - Longer contract term - Case study rights - Expansion commitments - Reference availability Every concession should have compensation.
Traditional Marketing Fails in the AI-Driven Era
if you're running traditional marketing playbooks in an age where OpenAI acquires TBPN, you're ngmi. The game has completely changed
Direct Feedback Fuels Team Growth; Withhold It, Hinder Progress
If you’re not willing to give direct feedback, you’re robbing your team of their ability to improve.
OKRs Align Factory Teams and Drive Outcomes
📘 My favorite leadership read this week. What’s on your list? 📚 Add this to your list: 𝐌𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 (𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟖) by 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧 𝐃𝐨𝐞𝐫𝐫 💡 OKRs for factories? Yes—align teams, focus effort, ship outcomes. Helpful resource: 🔗 https://t.co/uilX0d7TBd https://t.co/ehv86DTFh9
Every Day Delays Cut Collections; Automation Recovers 200% More
an invoice at 30 days has a 95% chance of being collected in full. at 60 days it drops to 70%. at 90 days, 45%. at 120 days, 20%. every day an invoice ages, money evaporates. companies that start collection efforts after...
Must‑Read VC Guides Every New Investor Needs
10 venture capital guides I wish I had on day 1 of being in VC👇
AI‑Driven Game Jam Offers $20K Grand Prize
🕹️ THE VIBE JAM IS BACK! I present you... 🌟 2026 @cursor_ai Vibe Coding Game Jam #vibejam Sponsored by @boltdotnew + @cursor_ai Start: Today! Deadline: 1 May 2026 at 13:37 UTC, so you have a whole month to make your game! REAL CASH PRIZES: 🏆 Gold: $20,000 🥈...
Productivity Edge Is Short‑lived; Act Now
Rory is correct. For startups extreme productivity is already tablestakes amongst your peers. For larger orgs there's maybe a year of edge in it against your big competitors before it's just adapted or died. In no world do you have...
CIO Chat Tackles Leadership Burnout – Join Thursday
#CIOChat Good chat today. Join us at 2pm ET next Thursday. Topic: Leadership Burnout Hope you enjoy our movie tie-ins to intro next week’s topic. Please suggest topics and invite your IT colleagues. Every Thursday at 2pm ET. https://t.co/kNW8VcHSy6
OpenAI Buys TBPN, Ends Its Advertising Arm
🚨 OpenAI acquires TBPN "TBPN under OpenAI will wind down its advertising business, which saw co-founders and hosts John Coogan and Jordi Hays read commercials aloud radio-host-style and don racing jackets emblazoned with sponsors’ logos." https://t.co/vXnrhPGD9j
Ditch “Bookworm”—Embrace the Fierce “Bookbeast”
We need to rebrand the term bookworm. It sounds weak and lame. Don't be a bookworm. Be a bookbeast or a bookbaddie.
Align Your Marketing Systems, Turn $250k Yearly Into $250k Monthly
My client went from $250k a year to $250k in a single month. Same offer. Same audience. She didn’t add anything new. She aligned the marketing systems she already had. If you’re a female founder earning $150k–$500k, I want to teach you...
Leading AI Integration Across Go, Dart, Flutter, Genkit
My remit changed and now I also lead our product and engineering for Go, Dart, Flutter, and Genkit. I like this post about principles our @dart_lang and @FlutterDev team are thinking about for thoughtfully bringing AI to the stack. https://t.co/7dhU7bw7Oj
No Deal Imminent; Hormuz Likely Stays Closed This Weekend
I hope I’m wrong, but I don’t think we’re anywhere close to having a “deal” or the strait of Hormuz opening anytime soon. This 3 day weekend could be a absolute sh-t show and almost expect it to be...
Trump’s Absurd Oil Advice Reveals Twisted Pretzel Logic
Trump's "advice" to nations that are suffering from the US-Israeli war of choice that closed the Strait of Hormuz: "Build up some delayed courage, go to the Strait and just take [the oil]. Iran has been decimated... so it should...
US Blames China for Harassing Panama‑Flagged Ships
The US accused China of harassing and detaining #Panama-flagged ships after the Central American nation struck down contracts with a Hong Kong conglomerate operating ports on both sides of the Panama Canal. https://t.co/l49JKUezz4
From Lehman Collapse to $25M Bootstrapped SaaS
In 2008, Lehman Brothers collapsed, and my job got regulated out of existence with it. In 2025, I hit $25M ARR with no VC funding and a team of under 35. I’m Adam, and this is my story of...
From Cost Center to Growth Engine: Mindset Shift Required
#CIOChat Q1: For decades IT was framed solely as a cost center focused on efficiency and uptime. Now AI, data, and digital products can + must drive revenue directly. What psychological (or other) shift has to happen in your org before...
Effective Leaders Communicate Purpose, Direction, and Progress
Good leaders must communicate the following: Purpose – why are we doing what we’re doing? Direction – where are we going? Progress – how are we doing? I call this trio PDP. The clearer the PDP is to the team,...
Advisors Overlook High‑Revenue Tactics Despite Referral Dominance
The typical advisory practice used 5 marketing tactics in 2024, up from 4 in 2022. Larger practices cast a wider net, with advisors with <$250k in revenue using a median of 4 tactics while practices with $5+ million in revenue...
Iran Conflict Could Waste Over One Billion Barrels
🚨 NEW POST 🚨 The Billion Barrel Cost of a Longer Iran War The total volume of unproduced Gulf barrels is set to rise above one billion barrels over full shock duration; lost production in April alone will absorb nearly the entire...
Know When to Exit: Cool Factor Vanishes Fast
Prominent media investor told me something a while back that stuck with me (paraphrasing): "two types of founders - ones who know when to sell and ones who hold on for too long. If your company trades on cool, better...
CMOs Fail When They Prioritize Deliverables Over ROI
I began my solo consulting journey in 2021. Since then, I have worked with A LOT of B2B SaaS CMOs... And once you see it, you can't unsee it. Now I get why so many of them don't...
Arrogance and Entitlement Stall Continuous Growth, Warns Nvidia CEO
Nvidia CEO: “you cannot show me a task that is beneath me.” The enemy of continuous growth is arrogance, zero sum mindset and a sense of entitlement. https://t.co/DpugJBDmtO
Speculating Anthropic's Next Media Acquisition via Prediction Markets
is there a prediction market yet for what media outlet Anthropic is inevitably going to buy
National Debt Is About Sustainability, Not Household Limits
Public debt isn’t like household debt. A family can hit a hard stop. A country can refinance, tax, grow, and revisit its budget year after year. The issue is sustainability, not a single scary number. https://t.co/T4l1gg78Xk
Leaders Fire to Protect Ego, Not Performance
FWIW When leaders fire subordinates it often has less to do with the failures of the subordinate (which typically have been long known) than the mounting vulnerability felt by the CEO. Short of embezzlement, you never see CFOs, CTOs and COOs...
AI Reads 10k Posts in Minutes, Writes Fast
TBPN gets bought. My AI picks up the news and writes about it fast: https://t.co/kiuZ7QXLzb You can't read 10,000 posts in 30 minutes. AI can.
Lowering Barriers Unlocks Biotech’s Biggest Potential
What if the biggest unlock in biotech is simply access? Douglas Crawford built MBC BioLabs to lower barriers and enable 500+ startups. Excited to have him at SynBioBeta 2026. Visit the @SynBioBeta website to read the full article. https://t.co/HEfhvmwZ8i
2026 Food Crisis Fears Ease Compared to 2022
VIDEO COLUMN: Another food crisis? The experience of 2022 after Russia invaded Ukraine, plus the increase in fertiliser prices, have prompted concern about another food price spike. But the situation in 2026 isn't nearly as concerning. At least, no yet. https://t.co/BjXPjnhMrG
OCIC Redemption Spike Covered by Quarterly Tender Liquidity
Blue Owl's non traded BDC, OCIC, received redemption requests for 21.9% of the fund. Is it cooked? No, it'll be fine. Here's why: 1) Portfolio turnover and 5% quarterly tender - OCIC tenders for 5% of its fund each quarter (20% per annum),...
Align Virtual Staff KPIs with U.S. Employees?
Virtual staff KPIS. Should your virtual staff have the same KPI’s and bonuses as U.S. based employees ?
2026 Forecast: Economy Expected to Grow 4‑5% Real
“We are going to see a very, very strong economy this year. We could see between 4 and 5% real growth." - Scott Bessent, Jan 2026 https://t.co/JlonK53rXZ
Essential First Steps Before Buying a Business
LIVE - Buying a Business? What You NEED to Know First with Chris Papin https://t.co/2ry1qMoroe
GenAI Surge Prompts Cognitive Surrender in HR
The Rise of #GenAI and “Cognitive Surrender” @ABPsychologists https://t.co/v6WqYvT47J #HCM #HRM #HumanResources #HRTech #CHRO #FutureofHR
Iran War Undermines U.S. Strategy Across Asia
As the United States wages war with Iran, much of Washington has been consumed with a geopolitical debate about what it will mean for America’s strategic competition with China. But this abstract debate belies the harsh realities now facing governments,...
AI Now Files Your Federal Taxes, Accelerating White‑Collar Takeover
Wild. Perplexity Computer is now a tax accountant. Select "Navigate my taxes" on Computer and it guides you through your entire federal return. The AI takeover of white-collar work is moving faster than anyone predicted.
Virality Depends on Attention Structure, Not Just Creativity
#AD @nemovideoai Most people misunderstand why videos go viral. They frame virality as a creativity problem. In reality, it is a structural one. What matters is not just what a video says, but how attention is sequenced, sustained, and resolved. That is where NemoVideo becomes interesting.
US Current Account Deficit Steadies Near 4% of GDP
True, but also a bit deceptive. The spike in q1 overstated the "true" current account deficit, and the unwinding of gold and pharma front running depressed the h2 deficit. The underlying current account deficit is still...
Viral Posts Follow a Predictable Five‑step Structure
Viral content often looks random only if you don’t study structure. Behind a lot of strong posts and videos there’s a pattern: - a hook family - a framing choice - a pacing decision - a CTA - a distribution fit
AI Turns Companies Into Self‑Intelligent Organizations
NEW EPISODE: @jack & @roelofbotha unpack @blocks 40% staff cut and rebuilding the entire company as a mini-AGI. This isn’t “use AI to make people more productive.” It’s making the company itself the intelligence. If you’re a founder or operator wondering what...
Embrace Daily Failures: Lessons Shaping My Business
Looking back at my "failures" makes me grateful for them, but in the moment... holy fuck do they suck. I feel like I fail at something everyday, and it is always a lesson in how to do something better the next...
War Dominates March 2026, Markets Stay Surprisingly Calm
Beware the ides of March? That was true in 2026 as the month started with war, with questions about how long and to what end, and ended with war, and the same questions. Oil prices were up, stock prices were...
Pain‑first Narratives Melt Even the Coldest Buyers
I had a VP start a call ice cold. Arms folded. Short responses. Cold as ice. I didn't pitch my product. I didn't pitch my company. I walked her through a "problem deck." 5 slides. All pain. Zero product. By minute 20 she was telling me...
Profit Over Revenue: Diversify for True Business Freedom
I know founders doing $10M/year who are one algorithm change away from bankruptcy. I know founders doing $300k/year with 5 different traffic sources who sleep like a baby. Revenue is vanity. Profit is sanity. Diversification is freedom.
Market Odds Suggest US Troops Soon Despite Trump’s Vague Timeline
“We’ll be leaving very soon, within two weeks, maybe a couple of days longer to do the job. But we want to knock out every single thing they have." -President Trump (3/31) If this is true, why is Polymarket showing a...
ChatGPT Ads Prioritize Clarity Over Creative Hype
Interested in ChatGPT Ads? -> Data shows ChatGPT ads favor clarity over creativity (Adthena analysis) *The average headline clocks in at just 30 characters and around 5 words. *Body copy averages 116 characters and roughly 19 words. "The overall tone across these ads...
Turn Yes Into Action: Speed Wins Deals
Founders: Post-verbal agreement, maintain momentum: - Send contract same day - Schedule kick-off call - Intro to implementation team Treat 'yes' as the starting line, not the finish line. Speed reduces deal risk.