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I know a thing or two about scaling service-oriented small businesses having spent years evaluating those acquisitions

If you own a service business and need someone to think through how to scale, shoot me a note: info@oryx-horn.com

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Raising $550K for a self-storage + car wash deal in Dayton, OH. 12% Preferred Return + 10% Equity Kicker. 506(c) raise – Accredited Investors only. Details 👇

@pestctrlguy most markets in the US are buyers' markets atm - if you have an economic argument against being out-negotiated, you should continue to push. Absent that, not sure it's worth it

We are under contract on a house. The inspection showed: - a 52 year old furnace - a water heater that needs the expansion tank recharged - the house has no gutters - the sewer lines has roots growing through it We submitted these objections to the buyer a week ago expecting them to fix 1-2 items or offer concessions. We have until today to come to an agreement or the contract is void. They stalled all week and this morning offered $500 off the price of the home. What are you doing in this situation?

we are witnessing the greatest commoditization of the MVP creation process of all time. Ironically, never before has a strong software engineering toolkit been more valuable. Demand for experts who can take a product from MVP to full-scale product will grow exponentially over the next couple of years...product architecture and systems design will be in greater demand than ever. I cannot wait for what the future holds

Interestingly, I've been reviewing CIMs and have seen quite a few roofing businesses that have scaled from zero to almost 9 figures seemingly overnight. What gives?

One question I often ask as I read CIMs: why don't owners typically sell and lease back the land on which their businesses are situated? It seems that would be a great way to generate cashflow to potentially scale their businesses - what am I missing here?

Would you rather acquire 3, $300K SDE businesses for 2x each or 1 900K SDE business for 3x?

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Spoke to a colleague who owns a roofing company. Apparently there is a swath of home services businesses that are 1099 exclusively🤯. Tight SOPs needed to maintain work product but generally winners win based on their local brands

@shabs61 @AnythingLFC_ The club is a victim of its own success!

@SMBWhisperer @AnythingLFC_ And who's to blame for that?

What was the problem with today's performance from Liverpool? 🤔

Instead, ChatGPT will force everyone to level up their research. The era of critical thinking based on the deep research foundation is here

Yesterday I fed a prompt into Deep Research that would otherwise have taken 4 hours to complete. It was done in 10 minutes. Watching it work through the reasoning process was most interesting of all. I do not fear for analysts' work

Pretty incredible what $20 a month will give you.