Blueprintsmb
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Ex Wall Street / current owner of small manufacturing business via ETA. Trying to learn and get better while making mistakes every day
Joined September 2023
(BEEP). Moderator: "Who just joined the Palantir post Q2 earnings management call with investors hosted by Goldman Sachs?". Voice: "Max Long"
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Rubenstein: "So were involved with this very famous short that didn't work out called Gamestop. " . Sundheim: "Painful. ".
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Imagine putting in $1.5mm of your own money to buy a $22mm business only to have such a terrible ownership transition where key family members quit while deleting key lead sources and data? Rough. Sounds like it's going well now but yikes.
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Yikes. 50 year companies I compete with shutting down. šØšØ
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My banking internship was formatting, getting coffee, keeping an eye on creative and delivering books to ceos at their hotels at 1am. I barely touched excel as a summer analyst.
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Zero shot this is true. I was actively involved with analyst hiring at a major pod back in the day and most 2nd yr banking analysts canāt model. The amount of generic Goldman Sachs formatted DCF derived price targets on 24 hour case studies was sad
How it started: New Moelis CEO āMy daughter is in banking too, letās make sure we improve our cultureā. How itās going: āFuck those intern man, 5 hour surprise modeling test, make them earn those return offersā
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I stopped playing FIFA on PlayStation when I got married a a decade ago (it was communicated I wld lose certain privileges if I kept a PlayStation). If I still played FIFA, I would not have the audacity to even attempt to do what Liverpool is doing this off season on the transfer.
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If you are as dumb as me and just keep grinding when things arenāt fun, I do feel sometimes good things can happen. The New England competitor Iām 100 pct certain will have to shut down if they donāt agree to give me their book of biz on some commission structure reached out to.
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Sometimes being a good friend is simply meeting a fellow SMB owner at 6am breakfast so he can vent.
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Buddy: "Yeah so these guys exited and got $$$$ each after selling to PE. Now they are doing an industry focused search on field services repair and service.". Me: "Why?". Buddy: "They feel it is fragmented, a durable service through cycles and multiples not high". Me: "Are these.
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Have never been to this website nor have I ever owned a gun. Why is this in my Gmail? š¤·āāļø
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I still peruse business listings. seeing a Steel ERECTOR and Adult Club (with owner financing probably because 50% of the SDE is cash income that can't be verified with tax returns) in the same row of listings made me laugh. A vestedBB broker just came in to see if I wanted to
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Common theme talking to other SMB owners lately. "When I started this adventure, I was a hold forever guy. If someone comes to me with a nice offer in the next 3-5 years, I'm out."
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Some charts that are emblematic of the head-spinning nature of 2025: Investors just recorded the biggest 3-month rise in risk appetite on record, according to Bank of America's July fund manager survey (1/3)
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It's not a "smart" capital allocation decision, but as I get closer to my 3 year anniversary of my deal closing, part of me is debating paying off my entire 7a loan early for piece of mind. Do I need to do it? Absolutely not but the 3 year mark is when the prepayment penalty goes.
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RT @AaronandML: The tariff fluctuations have bankrupted some e-commerce brands and will do the same for some Chinese factories. Email fromā¦.
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