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I help ambitious people raise capital, get board seats, take companies public. Bluesky Capitalist... Author of 4 best selling business books
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What happens when you put 70+ small business M&A deal makers in a room? Lots of fun and deals. Looking forward to speaking later. #dubai

Met an Australian grandmother yesterday doing a global trip to visit her family scattered around the globe. She was most concerned about visiting her son in NYC having been repeatedly warned that the US was no longer foreigner friendly and she wasn't sure she would get past immigration. :(

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There's a clear correlation with salaries here. Apart from psychologists who are normally well paid. Are they the exception to the rule, or just delusional?

"I guess irony can be pretty ironic sometimes" www.bbc.com/news/article... Poundland sold for £1

Not just me then!

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The measure of wealth is freedom

Stuff happens. You get to choose how you react to it. Choose wisely

If you only build what your customers ask for, you'll always be reactive instead of market-leading

What made your SME successful in the first 5 years will become your biggest obstacle to scaling past $10M

Wealth isn't your net worth. It's your ability to make decisions without consulting your bank balance

The SME scale paradox: You need scale to get the best talent, but you need the best talent to scale

Private markets have their rules. Public markets have different rules. Choose your game wisely

What made your SME successful in the first 5 years will become your biggest obstacle to scaling past $10M

🚀 Testing Bluesky scheduler integration - working perfectly! (for now...)

What made your SME successful in the first 5 years will become your biggest obstacle to scaling past $10M

If you only do what you have to do, you will always have to do what you're told to do

If you only do what you have to do, you will always have to do what you're told to do

If you only do what you have to do, you will always have to do what you're told to do

What made your SME successful in the first 5 years will become your biggest obstacle to scaling past $10M

What made your SME successful in the first 5 years will become your biggest obstacle to scaling past $10M

Auto-scheduler working well then...

What made your SME successful in the first 5 years will become your biggest obstacle to scaling past $10M

What made your SME successful in the first 5 years will become your biggest obstacle to scaling past $10M

What made your SME successful in the first 5 years will become your biggest obstacle to scaling past $10M

What made your SME successful in the first 5 years will become your biggest obstacle to scaling past $10M

What made your SME successful in the first 5 years will become your biggest obstacle to scaling past $10M

What made your SME successful in the first 5 years will become your biggest obstacle to scaling past $10M

What made your SME successful in the first 5 years will become your biggest obstacle to scaling past $10M

What made your SME successful in the first 5 years will become your biggest obstacle to scaling past $10M

Is there a doctor in the house? youtu.be/GpccqfJzDds

In the boardroom, leadership isn't about having all the answers. It's knowing which questions unlock better thinking.

Interesting thesis. Do you think this is true?

Just leave this here...

Still testing my funky little Bsky scheduler. The images were misbehaving, but if the AI gods are shining upon me, this image should be somewhat related to the words I'm typing... Good enough!