Almost three years of conversations with business owners. All recorded.
For almost three years I met business owners in Portugal once a month to work through the real problems of running a business. The programme has ended. More than 40 sessions remain available on Circle, and the library stays open for good.
RAMP 1.0 has ended. What comes next is for people who have built a real business and got stuck in what they built.
What is inside.
More than 40 sessions, recorded over almost three years. Each one goes deep on a theme, and most end with real questions from the people in the room. These are some of the themes.
- The 4 Archetypes in Business
- Mission, Principles and Values
- KWAN Case Study: Road to MARS
- A Culture of Initiative
- Deciding and Knowing How to Listen
- Thinking and Making Others Think
- Geometric Growth
- The Life Cycle of a Company
- Maximising Business Value
- OKRs: Objectives and Key Results
- The Inverted Funnel
- Q&A: focus, the exit and the equity game
- Hot Seat: real cases
- Accounting for Business Owners (I and II)
- The Different Kinds of Money
- How to Talk to Your Accountant
- Collecting Debts from Clients
- Effective Communication (5 parts)
- Dealing with Conflict
- Human Needs
- The Languages of Appreciation at Work
- Incentive Systems
- Praise and Reprimands
- Scorecards
- A Players and the ABCD Matrix
Watch at your own pace, in whatever order you like. When a problem knocks on your door, there is a good chance we have already talked about it.
What RAMP was like.
90 minutes, with me and the whole community. The first half was content, with one theme a month: operating structure, pricing, hiring, sales, cash management. The second half was Q&A: each person brought their problems and I answered in front of everyone. The recordings have both halves.
Between calls, the conversation carried on in Circle: questions, decisions, opinions from other owners on the same ground. The community stays open to anyone who joins the library.
Who the library is for.
It is not for everyone. It makes sense if three things are true:
You run a real business.
It does not have to be big. But it has to be a business, not occasional freelancing, not a side project.
You own your own business.
You are not an employee somewhere hoping to "learn more". You are the one who holds the key to the door, who signs the corporate tax return, who decides whether or not to hire.
You want structure, not just inspiration.
These are not motivational talks. It is method, exercises, other owners’ real problems, and answers you will have to apply yourself.
If your business is past this and everything still goes through you, RAMP 2.0 was designed for you.
Investment.
€300 / year + VAT. Renewable annually. You get immediate access to every recorded session and to the community on Circle, for 12 months.
It is not an expensive price. I believe the filter should be your maturity and commitment, not your credit card.
If after 30 days you decide it is not for you, you leave without complications.
Real business owners. Concrete results.
These are some of the owners who have been through RAMP and wanted to share their experience.
One call a month. The same room, the same peers, and a place where nobody was selling you anything.
“The clarity it gave me in running a pharmacy, in the face of difficulties I had never met before as a business owner, was priceless. I feel far more prepared for the year ahead. So often we are advised and steered by people with no genuine interest in seeing us grow. Rui’s approach, the way he speaks, and the lightness with which he presents these themes, are outstanding.”
“After attending one of Rui’s workshops, we made a genuinely hard decision: to let go of the C player on our team, who instead of helping us evolve was holding the company back. I am very grateful for what Rui taught us there, and I expect we will work with him more in future to learn how to grow the business further.”
“Rui is one of the most complete business owners I have ever met. A student of human behaviour and in love with the numbers, he has managed to build businesses that work for him rather than the other way around, through leadership, processes and tools that would make most entrepreneurs envious. He is a genuine owner with a proven track record, and always generous in his contribution to countless causes. A business owner with a capital B.”
“The session on incentive systems was extremely useful. Excellent recommendations on good practice and the mistakes to avoid.”
“Rui never fails to surprise with the sheer breadth of business-culture knowledge he condenses into so little time. It is quite a feat.”
“Fantastic sharing of knowledge from someone who has walked the hard road himself.”
“Content of enormous quality and real value, delivered with authority, simplicity, and plenty of examples from someone who learned by doing.”
The library is open.
There are no cohorts and no dates. Join today and you get immediate access to everything that was recorded.