BUSINESS PLANNING & SYSTEMS Stop running your business from memory. Start building systems. If you must remember every order, follow up with every customer yourself, and personally supervise every task, your business needs better processes. Start small this week: ✅ Document how you handle orders. ✅ Create a checklist for recurring tasks. ✅ Record customer enquiries and follow-ups. ✅ Set a time to review your progress. You don't need expensive software to get started. A simple, documented process is better than a process that exists only in your head. Your business grows stronger when your processes become repeatable. What's one process you need to document this week?

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If there was an "on-base percentage" for venture capital, what would it look like? It might involve looking at a firm's exposure to the world's most consequential tech companies. Not just an arbitrary mark at an exit, where they may or may not have taken liquidity, but the subsequent compounding of those investments over time; using public markets as a sorting mechanism for quality. For this ranking, we started with venture's greatest success stories, and worked backwards to find out who invested, when, and what fraction of their managed funds the investment represented. The resulting list reflects the long-term performance of each firm's most successful portfolio companies, relative to capital deployed. Other interesting features: • Two firms in the top 10 were founded by the Draper dynasty (@shv and @DFJvc). • Luke Nosek is a co-founder of two of the firms in the top 10 (@foundersfund and @gigafund). • Founders Fund created more value than the bottom 22 firms put together, at $95.2B, primarily thanks to @SpaceX and @PalantirTech. • If you rank by value alone, the top five firms are: Founders Fund ($95.2B), @sequoia ($82.6B), @Accel ($56.0B), @BessemerVP ($48.4B), @NEA ($33.0B). • Seven out of the ten best performing funds were technically emerging managers, and four were debut funds. (@iaventures I, @FirstMarkCap I, @Techstars Bullet Time I, @Lowercase I, Founders Fund II, @firstround II, Founders Fund III) The top 10 firms are: 1 — Sutter Hill Ventures, founded by Paul M. Wythes and Bill Draper (William H. Draper III), in 1964 2 — Founders Fund, founded by Peter Thiel (@peterthiel), Ken Howery (@KenHowery), and Luke Nosek (@LukeNosek), in 2005 3 — IA Ventures, founded by Roger Ehrenberg (@infoarbitrage), in 2010 4 — Gigafund, founded by Luke Nosek (@LukeNosek) and Stephen Oskoui (@oskoui), in 2017 5 — Lowercase Capital, founded by Chris Sacca (@sacca), in 2010 6 — Pelion Venture Partners, founded by Jim Dreyfous (as Utah Ventures / UV Partners), in 1986 7 — Union Square Ventures, founded by Fred Wilson (@fredwilson) and Brad Burnham (@BradUSV), in 2003 8 — Benchmark, founded by Bob Kagle, Bruce Dunlevie, Andy Rachleff, Kevin Harvey, and Val Vaden, in 1995 9 — Bessemer Venture Partners, founded by Henry Phipps Jr. (as Bessemer Securities; VC arm formalized later), in 1911 10 — Draper Fisher Jurvetson, founded by Tim Draper (@TimDraper), in 1985 Read the write-up here: blog.joinodin.com/p/the-top-… Read more about the methodology and get the full report here: top50.joinodin.com/

lower ur cortisol: > start a linkedin outbound agency > pick a niche > fix your profile > warm your account > build a list > write the dm > follow up twice > reply fast > stop checking your inbox every 10 minutes linkedin outreach from start to finish... 1. pick a niche look at your best client result and go after companies that look like that client same industry. same size. same job title doing the buying it should be narrow enough that you could name 10 of them right now 2. fix your profile your headline says who you help and the result they get "i help freight brokers book 20 shipper calls a month" works. "growth consultant" doesn't use a real photo of your face and a banner that repeats the headline 3. warm your account BEFORE you send anything a quiet account that suddenly sends 100 dms a day gets restricted so spend 3 to 4 weeks using it like a normal person. connect with people in your niche. comment on their posts. post once or twice a week 4. build a list of 500 in sales navigator filter by job title. company size. industry. location then turn on "posted on linkedin in past 30 days" so you only get people who actually open the app and will see your dm 500 is enough to find out if the message works before you spend time building more 5. write the dm in 4 lines saw [something that just changed]. usually means [the problem it causes]. we got [a similar company] [a result] in [time]. worth me sending [something small]? filled in it looks like this: "saw you just hired 2 new account execs. usually means the pipeline has to double to keep them busy. we got an aeo agency 12 qualified meetings in 2 weeks. worth me sending how we set it up?" no intro. no compliment. no link. under 400 characters write 3 versions with a different result in line 3. after a week keep the one getting the most replies 6. follow up twice first follow up 3 to 4 days after the dm. the second one 7 to 10 days after that no reply after that means you move on to the next name 7. reply fast a positive reply that sits for 2 days goes cold send every interested reply to ONE place like a slack channel. give it one owner. answer within the hour and book the call while your dm is still fresh in their head congrats on the easiest way to get clients in 2026

When a founder tells me what they're great at, I ask why. Then I ask why again. Five times. Someone who genuinely has that strength can explain it in detail, even after five questions. Someone exaggerating their abilities will struggle to give specific answers. Say a founder tells me: "I'm great at hiring and inspiring people." 1. Why do you think that? 2. Tell me about a time you did it. 3. Who would you hire first? 4. Why them? 5. How did you get better at it? When the strength is real, the answers get deeper and more specific every time. It works for experience too. "I built an Android operating system." Great. Were you leading it? Or were you one of 50 people on the team, and the one getting coffee every day? Police have used the same approach for a very long time to work out whether someone is telling the truth. So before your next pitch, run it on yourself first. Pick your biggest claim and ask why five times. If you can't get to the fifth answer, neither will the investor.

You see those provision stores where you sell everything, from biscuits to detergents, noodles and beverages? Sometimes, you can sell plenty of goods and still make very little profit. Six years ago, I facilitated a ₦1 million business support facility for Mama Ada who was into the sub-distribution of noodles. Three years later, her business had grown to the point where her credit request has increased to ₦10 million. From experience, It is more profitable to focus on one FMCG product and build a strong customer base around it. Mama Ada explained to me how she became the only wholesaler selling noodles in her local market. Most of the retailers in her neighbourhood buy from her because they can make over ₦1,000 in profit on a carton, depending on the brand. For her, she buys noodles in bulk and supplies retailers who depend on her for regular stock at a cheaper rate. She buys from distributors and his distributors need reliable sub-agents who can buy consistently, help them meet sales targets and earn rebates and incentives from manufacturers. So to keep the business growing, these sub-agents often need financing to increase their stock and meet demand. That was how I met Mama Ada. Her business generate regular cash flow because retailers need to replenish their stock frequently as demand increases. Today, her business has grown significantly from where it was when I first financed her. To those working in the bank or fintech across business development and credit financing, pay attention to FMCG distributors and their agent networks. One relationship with a distributor can open doors to several sub-agents.

Modern Warfare 4 REMOVED Beta Content for Seasonal Updates: 💥 Some APEX Attachments have been removed for Launch, including the ‘74U’ Conversion — stating ‘they will return soon.’ It’s done & ready, but now it’s saved 😭

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FlatOut 4 VR 1.0 Release! We’re officially out of Early Access and I’m so excited for everyone to jump into this. We’ve packed a TON into this release, including some surprises that I think longtime FlatOut fans are going to love. Here’s a little of what’s new: - FlatOut 2 physics and AI! We’ve brought over the FO2 code as an optional setting you can enable and try for yourself. Really changes up the game.
 - Two remastered FlatOut 2 tracks, with updated textures and lighting, plus the iconic Bullet GT with new liveries.
 - Improved FlatOut 4 AI, with a big pass on opponent behavior and fixes.
 - The Roboquest van, complete with physics-driven dice, and the experimental Scrapworks Mudslinger 450 motorcycle!
 - Huge multiplayer overhaul with bots, spectating, and passenger-seat viewing. Fill out races with bots and jump into someone’s car to watch the chaos while you wait.
 - Reworked VR menus with consistent point-and-click controls, mirror improvements, new horns, and lots of bug fixes.
 - Motion-rig telemetry support.
 - An in-game livery editor, plus a powerful open-source desktop editor with simple and advanced modes.
 - Steam Workshop liveries and custom vehicle importing. I can’t wait to see what everyone creates!
 - Awesome experimental features: weapons (shoot guns out the windows like you're playing GTA VI). These and the motorcycle are still being refined, so we’d love your feedback.

The majority of real product market fit in crypto has yet to be discovered and I still strongly believe that venture is the best way to get in on the ground floor

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