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What’s Fear Got To Do With It?

H. Friedman Search

The only way is to take a good look at your book of clients and ask yourself, Are they your clients or the firms clients? If they arent yours, the next question is, Can you build new and better clients because of the new platform you will be representing? What Is Fear? Fear is based more in your head than it is in reality.

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Automattic acquires relationship manager Clay to add an identity layer to online tools

TechCrunch: M&A

Clay’s software, launched in 2021 , is something of a smarter address book or personal CRM, letting users organize the people they know and keep up with their latest updates by pulling in data from services like LinkedIn, Facebook, WhatsApp, and X, as well as address books and calendars.

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💡 What Barbie Taught Me About Business, Family, and What Really Matters

Beyond M&A

I didn’t expect a book about Barbie to leave me close to tears. But Barbie and Ruth by Robin Gerber – the story of Ruth Handler, the fiercely driven co-founder of Mattel and the creator of Barbie – is perhaps the only business book where the ending felt tragically sad. It’s what gives the book its emotional honesty. Late nights.

Business 130
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How to Sell a Business in Puerto Rico (Without Losing Your Mind or Millions)

How2Exit

From running a cheese factory to building a supermarket chain, his hands-on entrepreneurial background shaped how he approaches dealmaking in Puerto Rico today. Pre-sale readiness is underrated – Many businesses, especially sub-$3M in revenue, don’t keep formal books. Sloppy books erode it instantly.

Business 130
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Monetizing Analytics Features: Why Data Visualizations Will Never Be Enough

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your embedded analytics. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.

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Go1 snaps up speed reading app Blinkist to expand in enterprise learning

TechCrunch: M&A

First, it is snapping up Blinkist , a startup out of Berlin that had built a platform to discover and read abbreviated versions of longer non-fiction books — “Blinks” that typically take no more than 15 minutes to read or listen to. Blinkist’s last valuation was $160 million in 2018 , when it raised $18.8

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Fixing Tech Teams Is Often Cheaper Than Fixing Tech Problems

Beyond M&A

He was exceptionally strong in creativity, risk-taking, and building things from scratch. We’ll send you: A personalised report A snapshot of how you complement—or conflict—with each other A free copy of People First , our guide to building stronger tech teams What Conflicts Have You Faced? The problem? Want to See How It Works?