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Oliver Buchannon
Michael Girdley

Business builder and investor. 12+ businesses. 30+ years of experience. 250K+ readers.


The counterintuitive path to $27M per restaurant

The counterintuitive path to $27M per restaurant

Slow compounds into dominant.

Deepfakes only cost $2 now

Deepfakes only cost $2 now

If the pond keeps shrinking, we’re all big fish eventually.

Cheap signals lie

Cheap signals lie

Ford learned the hard way not to pop the dream.

When to be unreasonable

When to be unreasonable

“It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose.”

Building remote teams 101

Building remote teams 101

Side by side, not face to face.

More reader questions!

More reader questions!

And why Steve Kerr is a great coach.

Ownership has no free lunches

Ownership has no free lunches

Busting out my graphic design skills

In a gold rush, sell tollbooths

In a gold rush, sell tollbooths

How chokepoints can be win-win.

It’s too soon for AI tactics

It’s too soon for AI tactics

You need strategy instead.

Thanksgiving leftovers (the business kind)

Thanksgiving leftovers (the business kind)

Seven answers you can use

Owners x Proximity = Business Health

Owners x Proximity = Business Health

Who suffers when things go wrong?

3 offshoring mistakes

3 offshoring mistakes

It’s not just a money thing.

I spoke to businesses about AI. This is what I learned.

I spoke to businesses about AI. This is what I learned.

I’d love your take on this.

How I build businesses I don’t work in

How I build businesses I don’t work in

Stop being an employee.

The business advantage hiding in your constraints

The business advantage hiding in your constraints

Spirit Halloween proves it.

4 essentials for a good event

4 essentials for a good event

Plus, a question for you

Trust your intuition... then bring in the experts

Trust your intuition... then bring in the experts

I love Build-A-Bear.

Build businesses on these 12 trends

Build businesses on these 12 trends

Can you find an idea here?

The leadership blind spot that kills businesses

The leadership blind spot that kills businesses

Success is dangerous.

“Building a holdco was the worst thing I ever did”

“Building a holdco was the worst thing I ever did”

Walker Deibel's massive failure.

[FRIDAY] A Chief of Staff: the CEO force multiplier

[FRIDAY] A Chief of Staff: the CEO force multiplier

This hire doubles your productivity (and make your job more fun)

The contrarian’s double-edged sword

The contrarian’s double-edged sword

Smart or reckless? Depends on the context.

Business books that actually work

Business books that actually work

We should have more pamphlets.

Hype is not product-market fit

Hype is not product-market fit

Scarcity sells... until it doesn’t.

$1B case study: How Lululemon lost its edge

$1B case study: How Lululemon lost its edge

Nothing is untouchable

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