A great business hits you in the head with a 2x4 — usually because one input in the equation is free or anomalous.
Go From $10k to $1M in 3 Years With This Strategy | Mohnish Pabrai · Codie Sanchez
Score market geography before evaluating any business-specific metrics in a service acquisition
Owned and Operated: I Have $5M, Do I Buy an HVAC Company or a Security Business? · John Wilson
Quantify recurring vs. reoccurring revenue split before any acquisition decision
Owned and Operated: I Have $5M, Do I Buy an HVAC Company or a Security Business? · John Wilson
Three public data sources let you model a septic market before spending a dollar on entry
Owned and Operated: Why Septic is the Most Underrated Business in America (Epic Septic) · John Wilson
Shadow-shop every competitor in your radius before launch to quantify the answer-rate gap
Owned and Operated: Why Septic is the Most Underrated Business in America (Epic Septic) · John Wilson
Use three explicit triggers to decide whether to consolidate acquired brands before the complexity becomes unmanageable
Owned and Operated: The REAL Reason Rebranding Can Add $5M/Year · John Wilson
Reveal whether a franchise fee buys you a launch pad or a lasting competitive edge.
Acquiring Minds: Phil Miller, $100K store to Pawville (11 locations, PE exit) — Acquiring Minds · Acquiring Minds
Acquire, remodel, and rebrand underperforming businesses to triple revenue in three years
Acquiring Minds: Phil Miller, $100K store to Pawville (11 locations, PE exit) — Acquiring Minds · Acquiring Minds
Identify rare compliant real estate first, then evaluate the business sitting on it
Acquiring Minds: Phil Miller, $100K store to Pawville (11 locations, PE exit) — Acquiring Minds · Acquiring Minds
Map every role in a small acquisition target to know exactly where human capital risk can crater your business
Acquiring Minds: Joe Wynn, $600k SDE, 90% seller note — Acquiring Minds · Acquiring Minds
Underwrite variable-revenue businesses to their stabilized earnings floor, not peak years
Acquiring Minds: Joe Wynn, $600k SDE, 90% seller note — Acquiring Minds · Acquiring Minds
High margin, near-total cash conversion, zero capex — a royalty business should be valued like SaaS, not retail.
Jamie Salter on Brand Strategy & AI — Reuters Momentum (AC15) editorial interview · Reuters (interviewer: Arriana McLymore) — reupload via DWS News
Build compounding trust so your reputation becomes a deal-flow asset others pay to access
How to Get Rich — Naval · Naval
Build monopolies by combining network effects, zero marginal cost, and scale economies
How to Get Rich — Naval · Naval
Filter every hire and partner through Intelligence, Energy, and Integrity—no exceptions.
How to Get Rich — Naval · Naval
One customer testimonial outperforms a hundred sales pitches—collect, deploy, and systematise proof
The Sales Bible: The Ultimate Sales Resource · Jeffrey Gitomer
Anticipate every executive's justification checklist before they raise it
Getting to VITO (The Very Important Top Officer) · Anthony Parinello
Compare sovereign offerings as products to find where your tax dollar delivers maximum ROI
God, AI, and the Coming Violence | Will Manidis — Hidden Forces · Hidden Forces
Score seven irreplaceable human value categories to determine which roles survive AGI
The New Jobs AI Will Create — The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News · The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News
Evaluate romantic partners on building compatibility, not on finding perfection
21 Harsh Truths About Why You’re Still Lost - Mark Manson — Chris Williamson · Chris Williamson
Evaluate partners and allies by setting minimum standards, not maximum wish lists
21 Harsh Truths About Why You’re Still Lost - Mark Manson — Chris Williamson · Chris Williamson
Design platforms for safety, ownership, and respect by default — not as afterthoughts bolted on after harm.
Going Viral Taught Me the Internet Is Broken but Fixable · Deja Foxx
Coach your manager to fight for you — hand them the case, don't fight across the table
How To Get A Pay Rise: Career Coach's Proven System · Yota Trom
If a £500 note were lying on the pavement, someone would already have picked it up
The Economist's Guide To Getting Rich · Erik Angner
Evaluate government announcements by long-run commitment, not short-run numbers
Your Taxes Are About to Go Up (Again) · Helen Miller
Headline fiscal numbers overstate real impact — always find the net after behavioural and compensating effects
Top Finance Experts React to the UK Budget 2024 · Paul Johnson & Claer Barrett
Every tax is ultimately paid by people — the question is which people and how obviously
Top Finance Experts React to the UK Budget 2024 · Paul Johnson & Claer Barrett
Distinguish capital that builds value from capital that merely shuffles ownership.
The UK Is The Most Unequal High-Income Country In The World · Paul Collier
Judge high-conviction operators by their mechanisms, not their magnitude
Can 'The World's Craziest Investor' Teach You About Risk? · Lionel Barber
Don't fund what the market would do anyway — government money must add net output, not subsidise profits.
Ex-Government Economist: Politicians Are Lying About the Economy · Vicky Pryce
Three gates a business idea must pass before it's a real business
Deborah Meaden: Money Shouldn't Be Your Goal · Deborah Meaden
Diagnose where any actor falls between Trump backing down and consequences
TACO vs. FAFO: Geopolitical expert Ian Bremmer on acronyms describing Trump #TEDTalks · Ian Bremmer
New technology + rapid change = fertile ground for old scams in new wrappers.
The Truth About Investing · Patrick Boyle
Understand the business first, value it last.
This Is How You Build Wealth · Richard Coffin (The Plain Bagel)
AI destroys capital and code moats; distribution and authentic voice are what survive
AI AGENTS DEBATE: These Jobs Won't Exist In 24 Months! · Amjad Masad & Bret Weinstein
Stack your worst fears simultaneously to prove you can survive before you invest
“This Is Terrifying!” You’re NOT Ready For What’s About To Happen With AI | Jason & Brett Oppenheim — The Iced Coffee Hour · The Iced Coffee Hour
Predict policy outcomes by mapping political funders to their corporate interests
SIMON DIXON REVEALS How The Banking System Turned You Into a DEBT SLAVE — Simply Bitcoin · Simply Bitcoin
Design transport systems that work for human psychology by applying behavioral science to complement engineering and economic approaches
Transport for Humans: Are We Nearly There Yet? · Pete Dyson and Rory Sutherland
Navigate the six predictable stages of business growth from startup to unicorn while using valuation knowledge to make better decisions at each phase
What's Your Business Worth? The Entrepreneur and Advisor's Guide to Discovering, Monitoring, and Optimizing Business Valuation · Michael M. Carter, Daniel Priestley, Scott Gabehart
Apply ancient Zen principles to modern life through a practice that integrates sitting meditation with ethical action and everyday awareness
What is Zen? Plain Talk for a Beginner's Mind · Norman Fischer
Price strategically by creating value first, communicating it effectively, structuring prices to capture it, and managing competition through policy rather than reaction
The Strategy and Tactics of Pricing: A Guide to Growing More Profitably · Thomas T. Nagle, Georg Muller, and Evert Gruyaert
Invest in great businesses at fair prices using patience, rationality, and a circle of competence
University of Berkshire Hathaway: 30 Years of Lessons from Buffett and Munger · Daniel Pecaut and Corey Wrenn
Start your business with three sheets and a dream by leveraging constraints as advantages
The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur · Mike Michalowicz
Find outstanding growth stocks by investigating what competitors, customers, and suppliers really think
Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits · Philip A. Fisher
Describe, design, and reinvent any business model through nine interconnected building blocks
Business Model Generation · Alexander Osterwalder
Judge any activity by its alignment with intention, not by its nature
Nir Eyal on How to Be Indistractable - Brainfluence Podcast · Nir Eyal
A conscience check for product builders wielding habit-forming psychology
The Hook Model: How to Manufacture Desire · Nir Eyal
Within the broader AI solopreneur stack, Isenberg highlights a specific technique for validating and improving business...
Business Is Now On Easy Mode · Greg Isenberg
Distinguish genuine knowledge from pseudoscience using falsifiability as the test
The Logic of Scientific Discovery · Karl Popper
Use AI to kill bad ideas fast, deepen good ones, and fact-check your own biases before committing resources
How Gumroad's CEO uses ChatGPT - Ep. 1 with Sahil Lavingia · Sahil Lavingia