Anthony Fiedler
@fiedlerfyi
Anthony Fiedler
@fiedlerfyi
M&A and
SMB owners sharing deal flow, questions and concerns within the broader acquisition and operating spaces.
Fatherhood and Building Family
Being a better dad
Gordon Bell, Computer Scientist at Microsoft and author Total Recall - what if you never had to forget anything?
Bell kept a digital “surrogate memory” using what was called SenseCam for recording anything sound-wise.
Becoming easier and easier to keep track and log what we have. Now it is more about distillation of key things at the key times.
Memory and
Careers and Interviewing
Coach Erika on Lenny’s Newsletter (free article) to Discuss How to Pass Any First-Round Interview
Sections of example frameworks and interviews for phone and first interviews
Laid out STAR examples and difficult times
Keeping things brief, within 2-4 past years of projects
Staying clear, concise and detailed
For anybody starting a business, here's all of the tools that we use at aragon.ai. (We hit $1M ARR in 4 months, $4M+ ARR in 1+ years):
Admin:
• Clerky - incorporation
• Brex - credit card and banking
• Notion - personal task management, team kanban board, and company documentation
• Google Workspace
• Stripe - payments
• Slack
• Rippling - payroll
• Deel -
Startup Building and Writing and AI Creation
Tech stack for software as a service AI generator
Interesting take on private and public community municipality.
PE moving from LPs to bring inhouse on investments to be able to draw capital whenever they want - Blackstone / Berkshire with access off the balance sheet on permanent capital.
Interesting that as PE has been open to 401k individual investors, it has also become more opaque as governance will typically lack without the intermediary relationship of GP/LPs.
M&A and
Acquisitions, primarily digital or ecommerce
Focusing on Quality of Earnings and diligence services