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My government contract Secret Weapon. “The FAR” Studying the government's rule book FAR (Federal Acquisition Regulation) is boring and time consuming .. So if you ask me where to began your learning I would say these are my Top 8 sections.

Byron Allen, Founder of Allen Media Group, explains how treating business like a contact sport unlocks unlimited capital: Byron once borrowed $310 million on a Friday to acquire the Weather Channel. He paid it back in five months. When the lender hit him with a $28 million prepayment penalty for closing too quickly, he paid that too. His philosophy on why capital is never the real obstacle: "Business is a contact sport. You're nothing more than economic athletes. They will see your passion. They will see your stats. And they will always want you on their team because you make them money." The framing shift here is everything. Byron sees founders as athletes whose performance is being evaluated by people who need them to win. "You have unlimited amounts of capital available to you if your hustle is at the highest level." @RealByronAllen drives the point home: "Keep your hustle at the highest level because capital is always looking for you to get the money back and a return. There's trillions and trillions and trillions of dollars of capital looking for you. Go get it." The takeaway: Capital is hunting for operators who can put up the stats. Hustle at the highest level, and the money will find you.

I’m in love with this sentence: “Your laziness is disrespectful for the people who believe in you.”

Put lime on watermelon and watch what happens. Pharmacies don't want you to know this

17 year old Spanish student opened Google Maps and typed "roofing contractors near me." Found Maggie Roofing Contractors - 5.0 stars, 5 reviews and no website. A company doing $5,000-15,000 roofing jobs that nobody can find online. He pasted their name and reviews into ChatGPT 5.5. 2 minutes later - a complete website brief with tone of voice, page structure and SEO meta tags. Opened Emergent, pasted the brief - an hour later a live site with a "Scranton's Trusted Roofing Experts" header, services section and a "Call Now" button. Then he opened Gmail and sent them a link to the finished preview. Not a proposal - a finished product they could already see. The owner called the next morning. Because he'd been meaning to build a website for two years and never found the time. First week - 7 emails sent, 3 clients, $4,200. First month - $11,000. Five million businesses on Google Maps are still waiting for that email.

3 guys. Same apartment. $1.5 billion paid out by Roblox in 2025. They figured out the code doesn’t matter anymore. Roblox has 380 million monthly users. $1.5B paid to creators last year. Up 31% from the year before. The top 1,000 creators averaged $1.3 million each. The wall that kept everyone out was always Luau - Roblox’s custom programming language. You needed to learn it. Most people never did. Claude writes Luau. And it connects directly to Roblox Studio via MCP. One developer built a full mining tycoon - currency system, shop, rebirth mechanics, persistent data - in 2 hours. Zero scripting experience. Every line of code generated by AI. These guys live together. They share a kitchen and a game engine. And they claim to make millions doing exactly this. The barrier is gone. The window is open. Most people still haven’t noticed.

If you're on your last dollar and struggling to get customers, you need to raise prices, not lower them. If customers are scarce, you have to make them count. Do WAYYYY more for them. And charge WAYYY MORE to do it.

It took me 43 years to realize there are no adult. Just kids in adult bodies trying to figure it things out the best they can.

Boomers will tell you you’re not working hard enough.

“Asking is a moment’s shame; not asking is a lifetime’s shame” — Japanese Proverb

My brother did this and has been saying this for years. Everyone thought he was crazy. He got the last laugh.

I did one of these in Colombia, great experience.

A Turkish proverb says, “If a father bathes his children, both will laugh, and if a son bathes his father, both will cry.” Such is the painful beauty of life, where love comes full circle with time.

I am experiencing this first hand. Invigorating feeling building what you want

Gary Vee has been saying this for a minute. Shout out to the 🐐 Thanks Chris for confirming.

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 US Department of Labor proposes rule to open $10 trillion 401k retirement plans to crypto and alternative investments.

Kevin O’Leary thinks the highest paying job right now is customer acquisition on social media “I used to pay those guys $48,000, now I’m paying them $250,000 because you can measure their work based on customer acquisition every week” “Most of them become contractors, they make half a million dollars a year because they know how to take content, turn it into a 59 second ad on social and acquire 200 customers” “Those people in their early 20’s are so valuable now. If you know how to use your phone, somebody wants to hire you”

@MeekMill @CartuneNetwerk Congratulations. I use it as part of my daily routine.

Claude is helping me organize my whole music career and other businesses in days ... and it's moving my business forward at a high rate! Some tech youngbull I met on LinkedIn gave me a incredible template! Who else can help me with Claude

@JoseeFiol @NoRiskNoParty Thanks @JoseeFiol @NoRiskNoPremium you are correct there are a lot of gatekeepers but also fairly easy when you have a product like yourself. If I was importing roofing supplies I would start with DLA, GSA and also look at territories near Guam and Indo Pacific region.

@NoRiskNoParty Check @ecoffie it may be helpful hermano!

Government contracting update for the people following this journey. You all know my goal for 2026. Become a government contractor and only chase contracts in the six figures and up. In government land, that part is the easy part. Here’s where we are right now. We have submitted three bids. One got cancelled. The second one I lost and it was ugly. I was four times higher than the highest bid. That was a straight mistake on the estimate. The third one hurt in a different way. We estimated it correctly, I felt good about it, then a company I had never even heard of won it by coming in about 50 percent cheaper than everyone else. My honest assumption is they do not understand the scope. But the government does not care about assumptions. They care about the number. So we keep going. I am going to keep journaling this in public until I get my first award. I want to destroy the gatekeeping around government contracts and show regular contractors how to get in. The era where only the big dogs play this game is ending.

@hananyss Thanks for the idea I just added skills from this repo for my bot

My claw bot has installed so many skills from this repo. Truly the most fun I’ve had in months!