TIME KILLS ALL DEALS.
Moving with speed and keeping momentum going throughout the deal process is the only way they get done.
“You mean the deer with the weird horns on ‘em?”
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90% of communication on the phone is all about tonality.
You need to be focusing on HOW you say things versus WHAT you say.
For the most part, every PE/BD/Outreach rep has the same “WHAT” in their cold call pitch: “we want to do a deal with you”, so you need to find a way to differentiate.
It sounds painfully obvious, but it’s so easy to tell when someone is confident, and when someone isn’t. Like I mentioned in a previous tweet, you have a split second to make that first impression to the CEO, especially over the phone, so you need to come off confident and tactical to grab their attention, build that trust, and ultimately push to move the deal forward.
Tonality is EVERYTHING.
“Preoccupations with consumerism was symptomatic of the new generations of warriors who had never experienced battle, and therefore lacked discipline and the purity of intent reminiscent of earlier generations.”
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In my seat as a board director, the PE firm has to approve large investments (software, new hires etc). This screenshot highlights my framework for evaluating these decisions:
✔️What is the total cash outlay (in this example, I'm assuming $500k and what's the expected net ROI
There is a super fine line between being committed to quality, but having the ability to abandon perfectionism.
Not everything is going to be perfect or go perfectly to plan, you will have to figure stuff out on the fly.
Don't die a slow business death from over-analyzing
Half hour long call with a CEO with the worst case of the hiccups you could ever imagine, talk about grit









