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Risk Mitigation Starts Before Growth: Stress-Testing the Downside in PE Portfolio Companies
Risk mitigation in PE portfolio companies often starts with the wrong question: “What could go wrong?” The better frame is always tied to data, i.e. “What…
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How Would You Fix LinkedIn? One Change Only.
Name any ONE thing that LinkedIn should do to be useful again (better than sending game invites). Following my comments for the best ideas.
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The Operator Gap: Why Execution Experience Matters More Than Ever
The dreadful outcome of zoom fatigue or back to back meetings for years in this economy today are millions of task coordinators and strategists with light…
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Exit Readiness as a Competitive Advantage: Why Preparation Wins in Compressed Markets
Amidst the historical SpaceX IPO yesterday and Anthropic/OpenAI filing this month as well, exit readiness is a hot topic on everyone’s mind. Public and private markets…
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Marketing’s Identity Crisis: Why Growth Leaders Need Business Fluency, Not More Channels
Most mid-market and PE-backed companies I talk to are still running marketing like a creative cost center, while their boards are asking revenue questions the marketing…
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The New Enterprise Playbook: AI-Native Growth, RevOps, and Digital Transformation in 2026
Self-served enterprise, founder-led sales, product-led sales, hands on technicians on the field, product demos, workshops, hackathons, MVP builds over calls. The landscape in 2026 is futuristic…
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Agentic AI in Practice: Lessons from SaaStr on Scale, Reliability, and Human Oversight
I watched the Jason Lemkin and Amelia Lerutte presenting their bot net over at SaaStr AI. First, mad respect for Jason and team for going deep…
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Late-May M&A Signals: What Stricter Private Equity Underwriting Means for the Mid-Market
I covered the late-May M&A activity in this week’s Growth Shuttle Insider because it shows where PE underwriting is getting stricter in practice. The broader mid-market…
