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Field Notes · Tallinn · EST 🇪🇪

I build.
They preach.

Born-global operating notes from a country of 1.3 million. Nordic SMBs, real B2B deals, and Treamer built in public. Nothing for sale. Ever.

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Mike — RebelMike
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TALLINN · 59.43°N
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§ 01 — The Manifesto

Four things I care about.

01
Born-global operating. Building for the world from a country of 1.3M.
02
Nordic SMBs. The operators actually running the real economy.
03
Closer's notebook. Real B2B deals. Numbers, mistakes, what I'd do differently.
04
Treamer in public. What's working. What isn't. What broke this week.

What actually lands in your inbox.

§ 02 — Content pillars. Rotating weekly. Written from the chair, not the stage.

PILLAR / 01

Born-Global Notes

How a company from a country of 1.3M thinks globally from week one. Pricing, hiring, stack, and the unglamorous math of shipping from the edge of the map.

Sample: Why we priced in EUR + USD on day one
PILLAR / 02

The SMB Whisperer

Breakdowns of Nordic SMBs the tech world ignores. Cleaning companies, logistics, regional staffing. Margins, mechanics, and the boring money hiding in plain sight.

Sample: The economics of a 40-person Estonian cleaning firm
PILLAR / 03

Closer's Notebook

Real B2B deals I closed and lost. The numbers, the mistakes, the buyer I underestimated. Written the day after the call, not a year later with hindsight.

Sample: Lost a €40K deal by anchoring too early
PILLAR / 04

Treamer in Public

Actual numbers from an Estonian on-demand staffing platform. Hires, pivots, post-mortems. The monthly receipt of what a real operating company looks like.

Sample: Monthly open-books — March, the hard way

Read this before you subscribe.

§ 03 — If you came for motivation, wrong newsletter. Seriously.

What you'll get

Good for you

  • Real deals, real numbers, real post-mortems
  • Nordic SMB breakdowns no one else writes
  • Founder-led sales lessons from B2B trenches
  • Treamer's actual metrics, monthly
  • The occasional dry joke at the guru industry's expense
What you won't

Not here

  • Courses
  • Coaching packages
  • "How I made €XXXK in 30 days"
  • Motivational carousels
  • Lambo content
  • Affiliate link stacks
  • AI-generated LinkedIn slop
Mike
OPERATOR / TALLINN
§ 04 — The operator

Mike. CEO at Treamer. Writing from the chair.

I run Treamer — an Estonian on-demand staffing platform connecting workers with businesses across retail, warehousing, hospitality, and logistics in Estonia and Finland. Thousands of workers, hundreds of businesses, one small country that thinks bigger than its map says it should.

I write here because the loudest business voices online have never actually sold anything to anyone. The quiet ones have. I'd rather read the quiet ones. So I figured I'd join them.

If you're building from a small market with global ambition — or operating in the Nordic SMB space — this is for you. If you're trying to figure out whether a "sales guru" is real: also for you.

1.3M
Country size
2
Markets live
0
Courses to sell

From the Closer's Notebook.

§ 05 — Recent field entries. Sample only. Real posts hit the newsletter first.

Week 16 · 2026

Lost a €40K Treamer contract yesterday. I tried to close on call two. Here's why that was dumb.

Closer's Notebook
Week 15 · 2026

The quiet math of a 40-person Estonian cleaning company — and what it says about the next 10 years.

SMB Whisperer
Week 14 · 2026

We priced in EUR + USD from day one. Nobody asked us to. It changed everything.

Born-Global
Week 13 · 2026

March open-books: what Treamer actually earned, spent, broke, and learned.

Treamer / Public
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NO BS
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