A thread on how real estate investors, developers and operators can make millions a year and pay almost nothing in TAXES by using depreciation, bonus depreciation, and 1031 exchanges. How it works:
On Aug. 27, 2003, @stoolpresidente and @barstoolsports released the company’s first newspaper issue. Seventeen years later, Barstool is valued at $450M after Penn National acquired 36% for $163 million in cash/stock in '20. A thread on the media, betting and comedy biz...👇
Instead of asking "how can I be helpful?" I wrote this doc to send to founders. A founder just told me "every investor should have one of these" – so here it is to copy! https://t.co/VUZ1sXfmfL
I wrote 30 Twitter threads in 30 days. The goal? Learn how to craft interesting threads, and grow a following. It (mostly) worked. - New followers: +2.5K (+100% MoM) - Top thread: 373K impressions - Top tweet: 2.5K likes Here's what I learned. Quick thread 👇👇
How to turn an important spreadsheet into a SaaS business, a thread 👇
1/ The investment management business is turning into the media business, but most investment managers don't realize it.
Here's the quick story of how we went from $0 -> $2m ARR in <2 years. We did this with founder-led sales, and this also helped us become profitable. We then used a lot of these same techniques to build out our sales team. Let's go.
💡 Startup Ideas💡 How do you find great ideas? How do you evaluate them? • @paulg • @sama • @eriktorenberg • @Austen • @cdixon • @lennysan • @shl 7 thoughts from 7 deep thinkers…
Giving away your work for free is like compressing a spring that releases when you finally put something up for sale. The longer you do it, the more energy is released. Steve and I compressed the Refactoring UI spring for over two years. It made $1,000,000 in the first month.
What companies have leveraged community as a large growth lever?
One of the requests I got after I published the Hierarchy of Marketplaces (https://t.co/mv5CyqLfRL) is to share the audio voiceover of the slides. Here is the voiceover for Level 1 - lmk what you think about the format. If useful, I'll do Level 2 and 3.
School: - Here’s what you’ll learn - Here’s what you’ll use to learn that - Here’s how you’ll show what you learned What actually works: - What do you want to learn? - What do you need to learn that? - How will you share what you learned?
At Not Boring... IT'S TIME TO MONETIZE. 💰 Made a Sponsor Deck, and sharing it, because: 1. I didn't know what I was doing so: - Others probably don't either, hope this helps - Would love feedback 2. Twitter is full of potential sponsors. - DM to get involved https://…
Last fall I bought a 4-plex in Nampa (a suburb of Boise) to turn into an airbnb with the help of 2 friends. Each unit is ~900 sq ft (2 bed, 1.5 bath). Purchase price: $339,000. We had to pay cash because it was in such poor condition. Here's a thread about how it all went: htt…
What’s a movie / series you’ve watched more than 5x?
🙇🏽♀️The Startup-Investor Matching Tool has me working. 😅From Sat to today, I've made 26 intros between investors and founders. 💸Can't wait to hear of more checks written! https://t.co/Tpfz824lyC
The first B2B game is going to create a new category. It’ll have to be different than normal games though for it to succeed in work culture. Probably less individually competitive and more co-op while scaling to 8-20 people.
Lessons on the Writing, Distribution and Newsletters. Synthesized from the webinar between @lennysan and @david_perell Lenny grew his newsletter to 28,000+ free subscribers and 1200+ paid subscribers generating a 6 figure income Truly 1000 true fans. - Time for a Thread -
This is how @bijan described his investment thesis in 2014. Solid six years later. https://t.co/4jyuB0fMvV
one of them should buy @makerpad asap
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