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Friend asked for advice on hiring his first employees. I set a 60 min timer and ✍️ https://t.co/m6VQQgcfmU

based advice!

Career advice: • Bias for action • Talk to the room you're in: kick acronyms and buzzwords to the kerb • Over-communicate project status • Bullets, not paragraphs • Talk slower • Share everything you know • Build a consistency muscle___L... See more

1. Cold emails: - go for quality, not quantity send to 20 people; if no reply, change email and resend. repeat until 2 replies. - share the outcome E.g. for @listingbott I'd send this "100 backlinks from relevant directories in one click"

random things i've learned about m&a: ​ - corp dev is 80% intelligence gathering and 20% being interested in doing a deal: you can't easily tell which one you are dealing with - ask them to hop on a plane and meet; that's how you know they are serious - if you don't get to speak to the decisio... See more

Got lunch w a new hire today cuz a mutual asked me to take care of them The best piece of advice I could give is actually 2 things: 1. Do deep work, ur coworkers r prob shallow work addicts - 4 hours of deep work is probably equivalent to 16 hours of shallow work ... See more

if i knew these lessons 5 years ago, i'd be up $10M. sharing so you don't have to learn the hard way.