Eliminate Key‑Man Risk to Make Your Business Sellable
Key man risk is why most small businesses never sell. If your company depends on you, buyers apply a discount or walk away. In some service firms, the discount hits 100%, which means the business has no standalone value. Document processes, hire leaders, and shift from operator to owner. Are you building a company, or a job with overhead?
Master M&A Basics and Profit Strategies – Free PDF
Mergers & Acquisitions 101 M&A and how you can profit from it Here’s what you’ll learn: • What Is M&A? • Why M&A? • Types of M&A Deals • How M&A Works • Benefits of M&A • The Risks • Who Drives M&A? • The Hard Truth • Serial Acquirers 📚 Grab...
Adaptability, Collaboration, Learning Define Value in AI Era
The employee is no longer defined by hours, titles, or office walls. What I see across AI driven organizations is clear: value now comes from adaptability, collaboration, and continuous learning. This is the evolution leaders must embrace, not resist. Are you preparing your...
Prioritizing Client Refunds over Profit Builds Trust
Why I told my employer to give a client their money back by @Timothy_Hughes https://t.co/l6WPjtF7eI @DLAIgnite #SocialSelling #DigitalSelling #Sales #SalesTips #SalesLeader #Salesforce #Leadership #Marketing #RevOps #SalesEnablement #MarketingStrategy https://t.co/gq0sgyx50W
Supreme Court Ruling Unlocks Government Tariff Refunds
Here's almost everything I know about tariffs in light of yesterday's Supreme Court ruling. Watch til the end to learn how to get your company's refund from the government. https://t.co/GFmQbceVox
Stop Flag Overload: Prioritize What Truly Matters
“If everything’s important, then nothing is important.” How many red flags are quietly staring at you from your task manager right now? 🚩 In this week’s episode of the Your Time, Your Way Podcast, I break down: • Why overdue flagged tasks create...
Culture, Not Strategy, Determines Transformation Success
70% of business transformations fail. Not because of strategy. Because of culture. Big vision announced. Great slides shared. Everyone agrees. Two weeks later? Same behaviors. Strategy sounds good in meetings. Culture shows up on Monday morning. If leaders don’t model change… If incentives don’t shift… If standards aren’t enforced… Nothing changes. Without cultural alignment,...
AI Firms Claim to Replace Engineers While Courting Them
it’s weird that foundation model ai companies simultaneously are: - pitching putting engineers (and everyone) out of work - while selling to those same people strange moment in time
AI Creates Jobs Faster than We Acquire Skills
There are new jobs being created every day by AI. The problem is that most of us aren't skilled enough to get those jobs.
India Skips One‑Sided US Deal, Outpaces Indonesia
Thursday, Indonesia’s Pres. Prabowo signed a one-sided US-Indonesia trade deal. Indonesia was slammed with a 19% tariff, while nearly all IDN tariffs on the US were eliminated. In contrast, P.M. Modi has wisely not signed a U.S.–India deal. INDIA LEAVES INDONESIA IN...
Sachs: Trump's Tariffs Are Taxes on Americans, Not Aid
Distinguished Columbia Prof. Jeff Sachs on Trump’s tariffs: “Trump is charging taxes on Americans. [Yet] he fantasizes that [he's charging taxes on] other countries… and he somehow believes this is helping the US economy.” https://t.co/iWEXdB8QFT
Lead Your Team to AI Literacy with This Guide
Weekend reading for this Saturday >How to Develop AI Literacy in Your Organization? A Useful Leadership Guide https://t.co/aiB5P99ido #AI
Top SF Talent Demands $500K‑$1M Salaries, Others Quit
You can but you have to pay them $500K to $1M+ per year now, that's the compensation of top talent in SF etc. Anything below that is generally sub-par If you do find someone good that works for $100K-$250K/y, they'll stay for...
S/4HANA Performance Woes Stem From Data, Not Infrastructure
SAP claims S/4HANA runs best on their infrastructure, but performance issues are rarely infrastructure-related. The real culprits are usually data volume, software configuration, or customizations. #SAP #ITInfrastructure #Performance https://t.co/l4zImu7UXw
Netflix Could Owe Warner Bros $
Doesn't @netflix owe @warnerbros $5.8 billion if the Trump administration fails to approve their merger, Netflix board member @AmbassadorRice ? https://t.co/P0FhHvuPid
Trump’s Brief Pledge to Avoid WB Sale Fizzles
Donald Trump’s vow to stay out of the WB sale lasted all of a couple weeks. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-21/trump-threatens-netflix-with-consequences-over-rice-board-seat?taid=699a45d18e21f400010da132&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_content=business&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
Influencers Mislead: OpenClaw AI Consulting Isn't Easy Money
Part of the issue is that certain influencers are pitching OpenClaw and AI consulting as “easy money.”
CEO Warwick Smith Discusses Deal Strategies at American Pacific
Resource Expert Sean Brodrick interviews Deal-maker CEO Warwick Smith of American Pacific Mining Corp $USGDF $USGD.CA https://t.co/9vg3VBGu4A https://t.co/fs6rz3m196
California's Wealth Tax Threatens Innovation, Yet I Stay
The California wealth tax as currently written would be really bad for the state and its innovation economy. That said, even if it passes I'm not going anywhere. California has helped me create more wealth than I could imagine growing up on...
Closing the Loop: Feeding Production Feedback to Developers
ah, this is THE question: how to bring the feedback on changes back TO developers? i wrote this piece very recently on developer feedback loops in production: https://t.co/4GqKa1SCBA which includes this 3 min honeycomb demo from september: https://t.co/GNPVLI37YE
Most Health System Innovations Die Before Scaling
Many accuse health systems of not being willing to innovate. The truth? Lots of innovation is being explored all the time - you just don’t hear about them because most never make it to system-wide scale. For every 100 ideas that...
One Clear Priority Outperforms Ten Competing Tasks
Small workloads don’t beat big workloads. Focused workloads do. I’m beginning to see that one clearly defined priority outperform ten “important” tasks competing for my attention.
Product Economics Beat Niche: 8 Traits for E‑com Scaling
Best product characteristics for scaling in ecom: - High margin (80% gross) - Clear unique selling proposition - Can run variations without confusing the brand - Works on Facebook without needing education - Not easily replicated - Has repeat purchase potential or natural gifting angle - Can...
Build Resilient Models: Separate Data, Use Named Ranges
I used to lose an entire day just updating last month's numbers. Not because the model was complicated. Because I hadn't built it to survive the roll forward. Most models break the same way every month. A new account shows up that...
Prep Early, Focus Collaboration, Bring Hard Problems
First board meeting? Tips: 1. Send the board deck (or memo) 48 hours before. 2. Assume board members have read it, so you don't have go through everything they've already processed. 3. Bring your hardest problems and debates explicitly...
High Performers Struggle with Regulation, Not Laziness
Most high performers do not have a discipline problem. They have a regulation problem. You are not lazy. You are overloaded. Burnout is not a character flaw. It is a biological response to chronic stress, constant stimulation, and lack of recovery. That is why nothing feels...
AI War Room Lets One User Command Multiple Researchers
A YC-backed team just turned 1 week of research into 12 minutes. It’s called Spine Swarm. You can ask it any question, and it runs a whole team of AI researchers while you watch. You can guide them in real time...
Latham Steals Additional Wachtell Partners in NY Talent War
Scoop: Latham poaches more partners from Wachtell in New York, in latest moves in M&A legal talent wars. https://t.co/aE9xDa5Hzk
Found AI Research Tool Offering Pay‑Per‑Use, Structured Reports
I always wanted an AI deep research product with the following characteristics: 1. I set the price and it runs for as long as I'm willing to pay 2. Ability to produce reports or structured data 3. Great data validation...
Admin Raises Section 122 Tariff
New tariffs levied - twice in less than 24 hours. Now Section 122 used to levy 15% across the board instead of 10%. That gets the effective tariff rate closer to what it was before the ruling by the Supreme...
You Can only Juggle Two of Three Priorities
Can you have a full-time job, and devote the time necessary to build a startup, and spend quality time with family every day? At least one of those things will suffer. You can have two Big Things but not three. https://t.co/uCnzbXtN3G
Upload Resume, Skip Manual Data Entry
when you upload your resume and it doesn’t ask you to enter the same info manually https://t.co/yg8OrzE01h
Seeking Vegas Family Office Investor Connections Next Week
If you’re in Vegas next week and want to network with family office investors, DM me.
Supreme Court Reaffirms Congress Holds Tariff Authority
Distinguished Columbia Prof. Jeff Sachs on the Supreme Court finally crushing Trump’s tariffs: “The powers to impose duties are congressional, not presidential... Today the Supreme Court stood up... and said the President of the US must abide by the law.” https://t.co/Dg8fWzEyAP
2025 US Job Growth Hits Decade Low Amid Tariffs
US job growth in 2025 was the weakest outside of recessions in the past two decades. US TARIFFS = TANK TIME. https://t.co/ONURMpns4b
Venezuela: Underrated U.S. Geopolitical Triumph
Politics aside, Venezuela has been an enormous geopolitical victory for the US that is probably understated and not well understood by most.
Nvidia's $30B OpenAI Stake Turns Hardware Into Equity
Nvidia reportedly invested $30B in OpenAI, its own major customer. The chip maker powering AI now has equity in the models running on it. When hardware becomes equity, your AI vendor list has a silent shareholder at the table. Source: https://t.co/KNtNLIRTOQ
Weaker Dollar Spurs Record Foreign Inflows
1. Chart in original post shows the weaker USD (DXY) gets, the more flows will move into USD assets...& DXY had biggest drop in 52 yrs in 1H25👇 2. So as long as DXY keeps falling 10-15%/yr, foreign** inflows will grow **37%...
Tariff Refunds Benefit Importers, Not Shoppers
A tariff “refund” mostly goes to whoever wrote the tariff check: the importer of record. That’s not the same person who paid more at the register. So refunds -- if they're offered -- might sound like consumer relief, but in...
LEI Chartbook Shows Strong Economic Indicator
The latest LEI chartbook is up, and it's looking pretty good, if you believe this kind of indicator that is -> https://t.co/jA0iOD7MzE
Effective High‑skill Immigration Policy Requires
One of my most important messages about high skilled immigration is that you have to do the policy right. And to do that, you have to accurately understand the economics of high skilled immigration and the practical realities and mechanism...
Smartness Means Anticipating the Future, Says Nvidia CEO
Nvidia CEO defines what it means to be smart and importance of seeing around corners https://t.co/isVrlJtjUp
Trump's Tariff Threats Persist, Undermining Economic Certainty
If you thought Trump would stop throwing around tariffs right, left, and centre after Friday’s ruling, think twice… I still think the impact is blown out of proportion by the media, but it does affect economic sentiment due to the lack...
From $15K Loan to Billionaire: Bet on Vision
He crossed out “elderly” and wrote “Black.” Robert Johnson took a $15,000 loan, pitched John Malone for 30 minutes, and built BET into the first Black-owned company on the NYSE. He sold it for $3B, became the first Black billionaire,...
Iran’s $20 B Boeing Order Vanished After Deal Collapse
Under the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, Iran ordered 110 Boeing jets — 80 for Iran Air (77W, 777-9, 737 MAX) & 30 737 MAX for Aseman signed in 2016–17…deal value $20 billion at list prices After Trump admin withdrew Iran deal...
Russia's Economy Surpasses Japan Amid Kuril Islands Dispute
As Russia and Japan arm wrestle over the Kuril Islands, Russia’s economy outpaces Japan. https://t.co/Y7wv29WjpH
Delay Hiring; Automate First to Avoid Drowning
Greg Isenberg thinks 2026 is about to create 10x the number of entrepreneurs. Massive SaaS layoff wave, everyone starts building. He's probably right, but most of these new founders are going to make the same mistake I made for 4 years... They're...
Future‑Fit HR: Own the System of Work
Why future-fit #HR means owning the system of work @TPShub https://t.co/Grx3J5T6uY #HCM #HRM #HumanResources #HRTech #CHRO #CPO #Hiring #Recruitment #PeopleManagement #Culture #Change #FutureofHR #HRCurator
Trump Hikes Global Tariff to 15%, Signaling Trade Upheaval
Trump raises his global tariff from 10% to 15%. All in one day. His geopolitics and geoeconomics. Is this it? Or will he do more that affects trade, supply chains, and logistics?
Jan Gas Futures Near $5, Could Slip Below $4.40
January Natural Gas vs. Lower Energy, Rates Goals - The January natural gas future (Jan27) is typically the tip of the price curve and will be tops in relevance around the US midterms, with a potential downward bias. Preexisting trends...