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
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
Major-league franchises aren't trophies — they're a long-duration asset that beats stocks risk-adjusted, and private equity is now manufacturing the liquidity that was always missing.
New England Patriots President Jonathan Kraft Expects NFL ROI to Beat Stocks (Sportico, 2024) · Sportico
Acquire a business with real estate for near-zero capital by pairing with a REIT buyer
Acquiring Minds: Phil Miller, $100K store to Pawville (11 locations, PE exit) — Acquiring Minds · Acquiring Minds
Enter a market whose biggest cost is customer acquisition — when you already own the customers.
Michael Rubin on Building Fanatics Into a Billion-Dollar Empire (Boardroom cover story) · Boardroom (Rich Kleiman)
Before entering a market, ask: is it big and interesting, can we make it better, and is it a good business to be in?
Michael Rubin on Building Fanatics Into a Billion-Dollar Empire (Boardroom cover story) · Boardroom (Rich Kleiman)
Close SMB deals faster by bypassing the broker and negotiating directly with the seller
Acquiring Minds: Joe Wynn, $600k SDE, 90% seller note — Acquiring Minds · Acquiring Minds
Use third-party approval requirements to negotiate aggressively on price and structure when buying a distributorship
Acquiring Minds: Joe Wynn, $600k SDE, 90% seller note — Acquiring Minds · Acquiring Minds
A research org wins by concentrating compute on a few big bets and disbanding the rest — not by letting a bottom-up credit market allocate it.
Why Google failed to make GPT-3 + why Multimodal Agents are the path to AGI — with David Luan of Adept · Latent Space (swyx & Alessio)
Quarterly community-giving program as both ritual and culture-binding mechanism.
Patrick Terry on School of Hard Knocks (full episode) · School of Hard Knocks Podcast
Build something so authentically yours that no one can compete with you
How to Get Rich — Naval · Naval
Find the right market, product, and personal fit before optimizing how hard you work.
How to Get Rich — Naval · Naval
Build monopolies by combining network effects, zero marginal cost, and scale economies
How to Get Rich — Naval · Naval
Unite building and selling—in one person or two founders—to create an unstoppable venture
How to Get Rich — Naval · Naval
Treat your marketing team as part publisher — build a systematic content production engine
Inbound Marketing: Get Found Using Google, Social Media, and Blogs · Brian Halligan and Dharmesh Shah
Transform your website from a product brochure into a magnetic industry resource
Inbound Marketing: Get Found Using Google, Social Media, and Blogs · Brian Halligan and Dharmesh Shah
Stop interrupting prospects — earn their attention by publishing content they want
Inbound Marketing: Get Found Using Google, Social Media, and Blogs · Brian Halligan and Dharmesh Shah
Arrive at VITO's phone call as an expected contact, not a cold interruption
Getting to VITO (The Very Important Top Officer) · Anthony Parinello
Choreographed six steps that lead customers from insight to your solution as the natural conclusion
The Challenger Sale: Taking Control of the Customer Conversation · Matthew Dixon and Brent Adamson
Map three macro signals to Bitcoin's power-law channel to size positions with precision.
Bitcoin is UP 50% Against Gold (Most People Missed This) — Bram Kanstein · Bram Kanstein
Audit your protocol's legal exposure before regulators do — in six structured questions.
Why North Korea Is Winning Crypto Crime | Ari Redbord — Bankless · Bankless
Anchor your liquid portfolio in self-custodied Bitcoin, then use ecosystem instruments as accumulation fuel
Peter Dunworth: $300 Trillion Is About to Flow Into Bitcoin — Robin Seyr · Robin Seyr
Exit large positions profitably by selling fixed percentages at pre-set price targets
TAO Is Waking Up… Here’s What I’m Watching — JM Crypto · JM Crypto
Escape anxiety spirals by zooming out to the level where stable confidence lives
21 Harsh Truths About Why You’re Still Lost - Mark Manson — Chris Williamson · Chris Williamson
When inputs are abundant, recyclable, and substitutable, control collapses — strategy shifts from holding scarcity to building capability.
The Best Thing That Could Happen to the Energy Industry · Matt Tilleard
Pull the highest-leverage short-term lever first to buy time for the long-term transformation.
How to Pull the Emergency Brake on Global Warming · Mohamed A. Sultan
Spot financial bubbles by combining FOMO psychology, crowd dynamics, historical pattern-matching, and the market-cap-to-GDP ratio.
Is the AI Bubble About to Burst? · Henrik Zeberg
Age-and-stage-appropriate financial education: sequence concepts to match cognitive development
How Parents Raise Bad Investors · Louise Hill
Time in the market beats timing: children's ISAs are the safest equity investment that exists
How Parents Raise Bad Investors · Louise Hill
Separate what children owe the household from what they can sell back to it
How Parents Raise Bad Investors · Louise Hill
Your mortgage broker should know your life plans, not just your last payslip
UK Mortgage Expert: The Key Things You Need To Know · Anthony Emmerson
Turn a salary ask into a 90-day evidence campaign before you set foot in the room.
HR Expert: How To Negotiate A Pay Rise · Wayne Clarke
Second-time founders don't follow passion — they follow what the market is already paying for
From Council Estate to Multimillionaire at 27 Years Old · Timothy Armoo
Central government should handle global-scale decisions and devolve everything else to those on the front line
Labour MP: This Budget Just Tax The Rich! · Liam Byrne
Track the multiple of national wealth to wages to measure true inequality
Labour MP: This Budget Just Tax The Rich! · Liam Byrne
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
When parental wealth is the primary gateway to adulthood, the whole economy stalls — not just the unlucky individuals.
The Wealth Gap No One Talks About · Eliza Filby
Debt isn't the risk in property investing — not using debt is.
The New Rules for Building Wealth in 2025 · Rob Dix
Finance depends on performance and narrative — remove the theater and the market ceases to exist
The Problem With Passive Investing Nobody Talks About · Philip Roscoe
Partnership structures align risk with decision-making; corporate structures dissociate them
The Problem With Passive Investing Nobody Talks About · Philip Roscoe
Index investing optimises returns while surrendering the governance power that could fix the system
The Problem With Passive Investing Nobody Talks About · Philip Roscoe
Markets are human constructs, not laws of physics — and can be redesigned
The Problem With Passive Investing Nobody Talks About · Philip Roscoe
The equity premium is not pi — it is not a constant and cannot be looked up
The Golden Age of Returns is Over · Mike Staunton & Paul Marsh
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
Soft behavioural nudges are insufficient when suppliers actively re-complexify around them
The Mortgage Trap Hitting Millions of Homeowners · Tarun Ramadorai
Society obsesses over the financial extremes and ignores the vast vulnerable middle
The Mortgage Trap Hitting Millions of Homeowners · Tarun Ramadorai
The mortgage market profits from borrowers who forget to refinance on time
The Mortgage Trap Hitting Millions of Homeowners · Tarun Ramadorai
A 1% annual fee doesn't cost 1% — it costs a quarter of your final pot.
Do We Need To Change Our Minds About Index Funds? · Tim Harford
Separate your public identity from your beliefs so you can update when evidence demands it.
Do We Need To Change Our Minds About Index Funds? · Tim Harford
Master theory, history, psychology, and business — then everything else follows
If You Understand This, You'll Never Fear a Market Crash Again · William J. Bernstein