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Happy birthday, Samantha Gee! Here’s to another year of great conversations and the kind of calendar magic that makes everyone wonder if you secretly have three clones. We hope your day includes excellent coffee, zero mysterious inbox fires, and cake with no committee approval.

Happy Father’s Day to the dads, grandfathers, stepdads, father figures, mentors, and caregivers who show up with patience, humor, and love. May your day include good company, a decent chair, and the remote for at least one full quarter. #FathersDay #Family

Juneteenth is a day for remembrance, reflection, and celebration. Today honors freedom, resilience, and the communities that have shaped our country in lasting ways. Wishing everyone a meaningful Juneteenth. #Juneteenth #FreedomDay #Community #Reflection

From smart-scale cocktail recipes to commercial restaurant technology, Mike Wallace’s work follows a logical thread: build products people can actually use. @MakeitPerfectly's Welbilt partnership helped bring its software into busy kitchen operations.

For founders, those forces look like product, people, capital, and clear decision making. Which “force” needs the most attention in your company this quarter, and what is one concrete step to improve it? @RockPaperCoin_

One funding round can create a long list of follow-ups: - board approvals - investor rights - equity grants - customer contracts - payroll records - IP assignments The details are easier to address while the deal room is warm.

Sensor Tower’s acquisition of AppMagic is a reminder that product expansion can happen through acquisition as well as internal build. For founders thinking ahead: Which customer segment are you adding? Which data, contracts, and IP come with the deal?

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A first purchase from a stranger brings a special kind of excitement. Friends and early supporters can supply encouragement. Market validation arrives when someone with no personal connection sees the offer, reaches for a card, and says yes! @RockPaperCoin_

Global expansion looks glamorous in the announcement and very ordinary in the paperwork. The friction usually shows up in places like entity structure, hiring terms, tax posture, local signatures, and payment flow

Replacement-part businesses live close to a line that can shift with branding, design rights, compatibility claims, and product language. That tension won't scare away good operators. Clarity on what the company can sell, say, and scale tends to unlock better decisions.

M&A diligence has a way of turning old shortcuts into present-day questions. Buyers tend to zero in on: - IP created by contractors - Customer agreements with awkward assignment language - Equity promises parked in email - Approvals missing from the file

Congratulations to our client, D’Wayne Edwards, founder of @plcdetroit_ and President of Pensole Lewis College, on being featured in The Athletic for his continued work expanding opportunities in sneaker design and education. #ClientSpotlight #PENSOLE #DWayneEdwards

Entrepreneurship requires a high pain threshold, and plenty of founders will nod at that without needing a poster on the wall. There’s a stretch where effort feels like drag and the company gives little back.

Happy Pride Month! Here’s to living openly, building community, and making room for people to show up as themselves in every room they enter. Progress needs courage, generosity, and daily acts of respect. Wishing everyone a month full of celebration, reflection, and joy. #Pride

Happy Birthday, Tom Armstrong! Hope the day brings good company, something great to eat, and at least one part of the celebration that goes a little off script in the best way. Wishing you a birthday with plenty of laughs!

Scale can put layers between a founder and the craft that pulled them in at the outset. Teaching, building around curious people, or returning to the creative side of the work can bring the spark back. @plcdetroit_

Equity conversations are simpler when the team is small. Years later, a financing or exit process pulls those same conversations back into the light: - A side promise in a text thread - A repurchase right missing from the final draft

Every founder should think about their company like part of a larger portfolio: - Investors have a portfolio of bets - You have a portfolio of markets, products, and partnerships - Your legal and business structure is the frame holding it all together

Founders already manage portfolios, even inside one company. Exposure can gather around: One customer One supplier One geography One investor relationship One key hire Growth tends to reveal concentration long before a dashboard does.

Memorial Day is for gratitude, remembrance, and quiet respect for those whose service came at a cost far beyond ceremony. Wishing everyone time with family, room for reflection, and a moment to honor the people and stories carried with this day.