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@thesamparr This is awesome. Congrats on your success @NotGoKGreen!

About 2 or 3 years ago, I tweeted out, who has a good accountant? We got 300 people who replied. I thought it’d be cool to call 300 of these accountants and create a website where we just list them all and get all the information about who they are, their rates, speciality, etc…and let people leave reviews. I didn’t wanna do all the calling. There was a woman, @NotGoKGreen, who replied and said she would do it. Fast forward to today. She is the majority owner of a website called Sam's List, which is where business owners can find a good accountant. It’s on track to do half a million in revenue this year. She was living in Georgia at the time and recently dropped everything to move to New York. I love when people go all in on building!

@Shpigford @joshpuckett @Shpigford any of those recs work for updating existing tired rails/tailwind site with a fresh design?

favorite AI design tools/resources that play a regular part in my process as of this singular moment... 1. interfacecraft.dev - Incredible resource AND tools from my buddy @joshpuckett. Probably the most craft-oriented designer I know who's also fully embraced AI as part of their process. Lots to learn from and lots of great tooling to nail UI details. 2. ui.sh - From @adamwathan and @steveschoger. The /ui skill that comes with this helps immensely with following good design principles and helping your UIs stay more consistent. Also has a killer interactive component that generates multiple iterations of an idea so you can narrow in on exactly what you want. 3. mobbin.com/mcp - "Pull 20 different error notification states to find common patterns among mobile apps" 4. claude.ai/design - Incredible tool for generating design systems for use in your apps and in marketing materials. Hard to overstate how good this is. Honorable mention: impeccable.style - I've seen a lot of folks talk about this but just haven't had a chance to try it yet. (These could all get thrown out the window tomorrow, as is the nature of AI progress.)

@PalmerLuckey postaldetox.com

It is time for the United States Postal Service to ban junk mail. Unsolicited spam calls are already prohibited by the FCC. Emails are heavily regulated by the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003. Junk mail is the majority of mail, 100 million trees per year. Enough!

Just tell me what the product costs I really dont want to get on the phone

The last 20% isn't most of the work, it's all of the work.

One of the top questions I get from prospective business buyers: what do multiples actually look like, and how have they moved over time? We're one small data point in a very big M&A ocean at @PIONEERCAPADV — but here's what 68 of our closed deals from 2022 through 2026 YTD look like when you plot purchase price against multiple paid. A few honest caveats before anyone reads too much into the chart: • The dataset is incomplete. Banks don't always share the underlying business valuation with us, so a meaningful chunk of deals had to be excluded. • Much of this was retroactively compiled from closing files, lender correspondence, and our own notes — not pulled clean from a system of record. • 68 deals is a respectable sample for one shop, but it's still one shop. Treat it as directional, not definitive. With that said — the trend lines are interesting. 2022 sits cleanly in the 2.5x–3.5x band. 2024 starts to spread upward. 2025 has the widest distribution, including a 7x SaaS outlier and the largest deal of the dataset, a consumer products transaction priced in the low-4x EBITDA range. 2026 YTD is clustering in the 3.5x–4.5x range with several notable points above 4.5x. Full breakdown in this week's edition of the Pioneer Buy-Side Brief — link in the comments.

@chandlerreed What's your cold email stack?

Our tech stack is punching way above our weight class right now. Two people generating the lead volume of a team twice our size. Cold email to warm lead to cobroker handoff. Rinse and repeat. The network does the rest.

@FreightAlley In. Shoeboxed has a lot of trucker customers.

Love this - truckers virtual hackathon. Calling it the DASH: "Driver App Shortage Hackathon" One week to develop something that makes life better for truck drivers. Gonna get some VCs as judges to write the first investment check. Who's in?

@noahkagan Thanks for sharing Noah, the transparency is super cool

Claude Code is drunk today

2026 will be the year of the acquisition entrepreneur - the business buyer that wants a better life for themselves and their family and wants to pursue the American dream 🇺🇸 My team is here to support you. We have helped over 140 business buyers accomplish this journey in the last 4 years If you’re under LOI and are looking to connect, please feel free to reach out via email at deals@pioneercap.com

@Shpigford Ship it Josh. Ship it real good.

determined to launch 2 products this week that i’ve been overthinking and rebuilding repeatedly. gotta rip the bandaid off.

You ever notice that some people say "lifestyle business" like it's some sorta slur?? One that pays well, gives you time back, and doesn't require you to sacrifice your health and relationships for a 0.1% chance at an IPO. How embarrassing. A small team, maybe 3 to 5 people, doing maybe $2 to $5 million a year, profitable from day 1, that you can sell one day for $10 million and set yourself and your kids up forever. Yeah, a business designed around your actual life. And who knows, can give you the flexibility to swing for the fences if you want. Gross!

How to make money on the internet: 1) Build an audience 2) Do business with them

@Shpigford @RumoredAI bought mine for Shoeboxed.com!

i've been heads down lately working on a new thing: @RumoredAI and today it's available! everyone's familiar with SEO and everyone's becoming more familiar with AEO/GEO (which is optimization for AI). yes it's interesting to know what terms/phrases surface your business, but what nobody has tackled is what to do when AI is getting your business *wrong*. and we found that AI hallucinates business facts for quite literally every brand. rumored.ai surfaces what AI is saying about your brand, what it's getting wrong, how you compare to your competitors and (most importantly) the exact things to do to fix those issues. you get a ridiculously in-depth interactive threat report covering 12 sections: from executive summary and active threats to competitive analysis, schema audit, and a prioritized action plan with copy-paste fix prompts. this isn't a subscription (yet?). it's a one-time purchase of an in-depth audit of your business. launch price is $25. but the price goes up by $25 each time someone purchases. 📈 have been testing this with a lot of companies and the response has nearly universally been 🤯. i think you'll love it.

@Shpigford Sweep the leg Josh

feels like a good day to launch something.

@thesamparr nope.

Like it or not... In my experience, low production jenky ads almost always outperform more well thought out, highly produced ads. I want to be wrong. Because highly produced stuff is fun to make. Anyway have a diff experience/result?

you've heard of fractional CFOs, but now you can have a fractional co-founder who's an expert in AI. hire me to embed w/ your team, find where AI creates real leverage, and ship it. not in months, in weeks. 22 years. 80+ products. millions in sales. initialcommit.co

@alexhillman where do you host your vm's?

hype reminder: you don't need openclaw for this it's the full power of Claude Code (with subscription) in a cheap VM with my CLI wrapper github.com/alexknowshtml/… Give this repo to Claude code and it'll set itself up, hardest manual part is setting up the Discord bot but it can walk you thru that too.