🎹 15 yr music industry - sidelined from tinnitus. 📈 now I help businesses grow. 🎙️ interviewing SMB founders @ The Come Up
Toronto
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I run 'The Come Up' - an interview series for business owners.
I started it because I was frustrated with biz content that was overly reductive and frankly mostly BS.
The hope is to give a more authentic look into entrepreneurship - good, bad & ugly!
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I promise no amount of explaining will prepare you for how bad this play is
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Introducing real-time Platform Tracker 🔎
- Track policies from major parties as they're announced
- Compare promises by category
- All cited back to the original source
Link below 👇
The best coffee shops are in the lobbies of office towers in the financial district because they don't force their playlist down my throat.
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The Radical Accountability Project (RAP)
Canada needs its own DOGE
@melkuo and I were galvanized by this proposal yesterday and we started riffing on what this could look like.
This is our vision for a radical accountability project in 🇨🇦
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It's time to demand more from our government.
Thrilled to be putting in our proposal to bring Radical Accountability to Canada.
Couldn't be more happy to be working on this with someone as passionate, thoughtful and strong as Ben.
The Radical Accountability Project (RAP)
Canada needs its own DOGE
@melkuo and I were galvanized by this proposal yesterday and we started riffing on what this could look like.
This is our vision for a radical accountability project in 🇨🇦
I think my brain needs a usage limit alert like Claude or GPT.
Sorry client — we're maxed out for now.
Come back for more after 3pm.
Just published my favourite interview to date — The Come Up issue w/ Goldminds App founder Cynthia Arscott!
3 things that standout:
1. She didn’t just “build a community” — she tapped into one she was already part of, which skyrocketed customer acq.
2. Its an “overnight success” that, in reality, took years of pivoting.
3. She found PMF ACTUALLY listening to her audience.
Wouldn't it be cool if the Toronto Small Biz Summit in TO headlined actual small business owners instead of gov. workers and reps from multi nationals?
Curious the thought process of someone who is building a newsletter w/ $0 for ad spend?
Check out my quarterly update w/ thoughts on building The Come Up!
🔗 loom.ly/qMXa51I
Your Chrome tabs are NOT your to-do list!
You shouldn't need to keep 100 tabs open in order to not forget something.
Write it down and close your tabs - your brain will thank you!
Thanks for coming to my TED Talk.
Hey @jamesvclements are you still building sites on Super?
Would love to chat about a potential project.
New issue of The Come Up now live!
An interview w/ Two Bears Coffee founder David Schneiderman!
🔗comeup.substack.com/p/buildi…
A big project I’ve been working on for one client is building systems to help their team communicate better.
This can be an ambiguous area to measure ROI, but if left unaddressed, can end up costing a business a ton of $.
So far, the solve has boiled down to two main things:
The result was a bunch of people standing around pointing at each other like the Spiderman meme.
Not helpful.