Callum Laing

I found that out the hard way with my first company, Network IT, during the dot-com boom

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Steve Jobs said you can’t connect the dots looking forward, only looking back

Agglomerate book cover by Callum Laing

If the first thing an investor sees from you is a slide deck or a business plan, you’ve already missed the point

You should never be pitching someone with a deck as your opening move

When it comes to raising capital, too many founders obsess over surface-level details

Board seats are one of the best ways to do it

If you rely on a single paycheck, you’re always one decision away from being replaced

Boardroom Blueprint book cover by Callum Laing

24% of Americans laid off after age 50 never work again

– US Bureau of Labor Statistics Blame the economy, blame AI, blame the weather

It now takes the average worker 24 weeks to find a new job

Instead of presenting your current deal as the most important thing in your world, position it as just one of ten deals you have access to

When you walk into an investor meeting desperate for their money, you've already lost

Callum Laing entrepreneur interview

The hardest skill in capital raising isn't pitching, it's positioning

Linkedin is still my home for grown up conversations and connections with real people not avatars, but it’s always good to test new grounds and see what you can learn

You're not kidding anyone. You've already bought them all!

At the beginning of this year my biz partner and I got together to try and triage our top 20 priorities down to 3 so the team would have real focus.

It took nearly 2 hours, but we eventually left with... 38 priorities.

Our team hates us 😂😂

- Like any new network it will offer more reach and an opportunity for you to own your niche - It has no algo, you see who you follow

Bluesky, or Bsky, was a Social Network setup to offer an alternative to X

You never know what’s coming around the corner

Callum Laing speaking on business scaling

Jeremy told me the opposite: “The best time to sell a business is now

YouTube video by Callum Laing Personal Branding Tips for Executives and Entrepreneurs with Amanda Russell

Want to learn about influence and branding?

Amanda Russell spent 10 years lecturing on it at America's top uni's.

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Ideas that had never come up in my business degree

Sep6 Big companies get deals because they’re big

The key is to choose the strategy that fits your stage, and to take advice from people who are one step ahead of you, not ten

Just because you know the value you bring, doesn’t mean anyone else can see it

Callum Laing professional headshot

Most of us do a poor job of articulating what we do and the results we can deliver

I was recently in a room in Dubai where the price of entry was having a minimum networth of $30m

Sep3 How Does Someone Worth $30m Handle Insecurity

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