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Muji vs Red Bull: What strong brands refuse to do

- January 29
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I Paused Execution to Think Long-Term

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Why I started wearing a hairband on my wrist

- January 15
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- January 8
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I misjudged time

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One KPI for 2026

2025
- December 18
- #76
A Year-End Reset for the Founder Who Thinks Long-Term

- December 11
- #75
My Biggest Inspiration in Business (and What Founders Forget Today)

- December 4
- #74
We change our tools, and then our tools change us

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- #73
How to Work With a Co-Founder (Part 2)

- November 20
- #72
Choosing Co-founder? Read This First

- November 13
- #71
Love him or hate him, but you can’t ignore him.

- November 6
- #70
Celebrating 70 editions + a gift for you

- October 30
- #69
How Smart Founders Actually Decide (Part II)

- October 23
- #68
Eliminate Stupidity Before Chasing Brilliance

- October 16
- #67
You’re Running 2 Businesses, But Managing Only One

- October 9
- #66
Your Team Isn’t Telling You the Truth

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- #65
10 Fundamentals: Behind the Scene

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- #63
Rest in Peace

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- #64
How to share your doubts with team without losing authority

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- #62
People: Asset or Liability?

- August 28
- #61
Customer Delivery Slowing Your Growth?

- August 21
- #60
3 Mistakes About Revenue Growth

- August 14
- #59
I never thought of this until someone tried to buy my company

- August 7
- #58
Don’t hire to grow. Design to grow.

- July 31
- #57
2-Question Business Audit

- July 24
- #56
7 Revenue Levers: Diagnose Before You Scale

- July 17
- #55
Revealing Unsaid Lessons Behind My Two Exits

- July 10
- #54
180 Degree Turn

- July 3
- #53
What if you’re just tired?

- June 26
- #52
You lose profit through unseen cracks, and here’s how to discover it.

- June 12
- #50
A Gift For You: 12 Ways You Can Exit Your Business, Successfully.

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- #49
How to Reduce Key-Person Risk in Delivery

- May 29
- #48
3 Phases of Business Wealth (Most Founders Get Stuck at #1)

- May 22
- #47
Why Great Management Outperforms “Leadership” Every Time

- May 15
- #46
Famous for One Thing

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- #45
Busywork. Liability. Asset. What Are You Really Building?

- May 1
- #44
Why You’re Still the Bottleneck (Even With a Team)

- April 24
- #43
Exit #1 Was Luck. Exit #2 Was Strategy.

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- #42
Are You Paying the ‘Growth Tax’? [+ Valuation Tip of the week]

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Revenue Engine: Old formula vs. New formula

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I Built a 200-Person Company. My New One Has 0 Employees (Here’s Why)

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Why Your Ideas Stay Stuck in Your Head [+ Tip of the Week]

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How I’m building a monopoly in my 3rd business

- March 13
- #37
Clients ghosted Jay until he changed these 5 words

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- #36
My acquirer slashed my post-sale commitment from 12 months to 30 days. Here’s why.

- February 27
- #35
Why great hires fail in startups — and how to prevent it.

- February 20
- #34
From 17-hour days to 4hr days + 22% growth

- February 13
- #33
Why Founders Delay Their Own Success

- February 6
- #32
[Part3] The 6-week guide to implementing your Operating Model

- January 30
- #31
[Part 2] The system that saved my sanity (and my company)

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- #30
[Part 1] Why adding more people makes everything slower (and how to fix it)

- January 16
- #29
From Bali, With a Humbling Lesson…

- January 9
- #28
How to Micromanage (And Not Be That Boss)

- January 2
- #27
The 15-minute ritual that powered my 2 businesses

2024
- December 12
- #26
The Revenue-Profit Matrix: Are You in the Danger Zone?

- December 5
- #25
How I Lost My Big Client and Team (I Never Saw It Coming)

- November 28
- #24
Why Your Innovation Efforts Stall – and How to Fix Them

- November 21
- #23
From Founder’s Brain to Company OS: A Tactical Guide

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Growth, Rapid Growth, Hyper Growth

- November 7
- #21
Make Clients Never Leave: 4 Steps to Become Irreplaceable

- October 31
- #20
How to run Strategic vs Operational Meetings differently

- October 24
- #19
How I Doubled a Client’s Revenue in 12 Months with Unusual Revenue Growth Strategies

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- #18
The First 72 Hours: How to Set Your Newly Promoted Leader Up for Success

- October 10
- #17
Train Your Tech Sales for Consultative Selling

- October 3
- #16
The Science of Trust: How to Transform it into Profit

- September 19
- #14
What’s Holding Your Business Back?

- September 12
- #13
The Million-Dollar Blindspot: Turning Financial Foresight into Your Superpower

- September 5
- #12
Beyond Barbie and Big Mac: The Surprising Secret of Business Models

- August 29
- #11
Maximizing vs. Satisficing

- August 22
- #10
Don’t scale your business. Scale your business model.

- August 15
- #9
Seal the Deal: The Power of Stakeholder-Centric Proposals

- August 8
- #8
High Employee Turnover? Implement the Stay Interview Strategy

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80/20 of Tech Sales: Multiply Revenue, Minimize Effort

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Flywheel Effect: How to accelerate your business growth

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How to Maximize Value of your Business

- July 11
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Rapid & Responsible Growth: Your 3-Minute Guide to Scaling Smart

- July 4
- #3
7 Must-Have Skills for Tech Founders: Are You Missing Any?

- June 27
- #2
Lessons from selling my tech company.

- June 20
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From Engineer to Entrepreneur to Exits

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