Naveen Katragadda @ConvexGrowth
Investor - Posts about buying and growing businesses. Minneapolis, MN Joined July 2009-
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1750x MOIC - total return Transdigm was able to achieve under Nick Howley 3 areas of focus they drilled into the culture to achieve that: - Price increase - Cost reduction - Getting new business If wherever you're doing is not contributing to either of these 3, then it's not…
Every SMB owner should take their business to market every year or so. And they should self list it. Whether they sell or not, just this process itself will add a lot of value to them and the business. Those conversations with potential buyers..you can't get that type of…
So this company discontinued a money losing product. And now they're worse off than before. How's that possible? What do you think?
The best thing you can do is the right thing. The second best thing you can do is the wrong thing. The worst thing you can do.. Is nothing. - anonymous #Entrepreneur
Feeling stupid about some NVDA covered calls I sold. Dang it! : )
You need to have multiple types of outreach for your business. People that say "no" to one approach say "yes" to another all the time! We get nos on cold outreach and are able to connect with them via network connection or LinkedIn outreach.
If a tree falls in the forest and no one's there to see..did it really fall? If you make a post and no one likes it, did the post really happen?
The trouble with AI posts is that even if you do get traction, it doesn't help you get business in the long term. Because it's incongruent with who you are.
Ask Young Americans to define entrepreneurship and 90% will say it's doing a startup. Yet 90% of actual wealthy entrepreneurs own blue collar businesses. Why do you think that is?
Introspection is overrated. Your mind hides most of your embedded thinking from you so that you can get on with life. We're evolved to think fast (Dan Kahneman's System 1). And you can't see the mental models you use to perceive the world because you're seeing "with" them…

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