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Callum Laing
@callumlaing.bsky.social
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I help ambitious people raise capital, get board seats, take companies public. Let's get more entrepreneurs and builders on bsky! Author of 4 best selling business books
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Callum Laing @callumlaing.bsky.social · 4d
4 incredible guest speakers!

Shared how they followed the CARES framework to go from chasing opportunities to attracting them!

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Access Engineering: How to get promoted, raise capital and get connected to the right people!
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Callum Laing @callumlaing.bsky.social · 1h
AI is likely to be our most effective form of leverage… If you had 1 extra hour of high-value time each day, how would you spend it
Agglomerate book cover by Callum Laing
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Callum Laing @callumlaing.bsky.social · 4h
Your high-value time is where leverage lives
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Callum Laing @callumlaing.bsky.social · 14h
Honestly, if a company is winning they never go dark 😂
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Callum Laing @callumlaing.bsky.social · 19h
What I missed was that an hour spent chasing admin is not worth the same as an hour spent closing a deal, raising capital, or deepening a key relationship
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Callum Laing @callumlaing.bsky.social · 22h
It forced me to think differently about risk, cash flow, and leverage
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Callum Laing @callumlaing.bsky.social · 1d
I didn’t have cash to buy it, but I realized I could bring forward revenue from future clients and use that to pay for the deal
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Callum Laing @callumlaing.bsky.social · 1d
My first acquisition wasn’t a boardroom deal, it was a yacht regatta
Boardroom Blueprint book cover by Callum Laing
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Callum Laing @callumlaing.bsky.social · 1d
– If you’re a sophisticated investor looking for high yield and/or capital returns or a small business wanting to use the capital markets to scale, please reach out directly
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Callum Laing @callumlaing.bsky.social · 1d
How your story attracts capital
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Callum Laing @callumlaing.bsky.social · 2d
Every time they raised a concern about what could go wrong, we added a clause that protected them
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Callum Laing @callumlaing.bsky.social · 2d
I’ll never forget sitting down with the company we were about to buy, literally handwriting the contract in front of them
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Callum Laing @callumlaing.bsky.social · 2d
The first time we did an agglomeration deal, we were learning on the go
Callum Laing entrepreneur interview
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Callum Laing @callumlaing.bsky.social · 2d
The next 5 years we're going to do a lot of investing!

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We Are Planning On Investing $333,333 per day for the next 1,500 days. Want some? In the last 10 years Unity Group has completed well over 100 acquisitions. Our intention is to invest in / acquire…...
We Are Planning On Investing $333,333 per day for the next 1,500 days. Want some? In the last 10 years Unity Group has completed well over 100 acquisitions. Our intention is to invest in / acquire ...
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Callum Laing @callumlaing.bsky.social · 2d
Was chatting to an M&A buddy yesterday and he told me one sector he works with in the US still uses faxes as the primary source of comms. That to me is wild. I don't think I've even seen a fax in 15 years.
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Callum Laing @callumlaing.bsky.social · 2d
Honestly, even if they don't open it, it still lodges somewhere in the brain that you are still communicating. And that counts for a lot. Nothing worse than investing in a company and not hearing anything - which is the default.
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Callum Laing @callumlaing.bsky.social · 2d
True dat. Plus some magic pixy dust helps.
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Callum Laing @callumlaing.bsky.social · 2d
” What actually gets deals across the line
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Callum Laing @callumlaing.bsky.social · 3d
And yet, most entrepreneurs pitch the unlimited upside
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Callum Laing @callumlaing.bsky.social · 3d
Just because you want to create wealth, doesn’t mean your investors do
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Callum Laing @callumlaing.bsky.social · 3d
– To learn more about pitching, especially when raising capital, check out this free community of Capital Raisers at GILDMembers
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Callum Laing @callumlaing.bsky.social · 3d
If you can’t show them how their downside is protected, they’ll never sign
Callum Laing speaking on business scaling
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Callum Laing @callumlaing.bsky.social · 4d
Most people pitch partnerships the wrong way
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Callum Laing @callumlaing.bsky.social · 4d
Once the work was done I asked it to run a check and make sure it was all correct
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Callum Laing @callumlaing.bsky.social · 4d
Focus on eliminating. I got rid of the printer in my office. Pine for it occasionally, but don't miss the headaches and hassles. You find workarounds.
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