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How to Run a Weekly Review That Actually Makes You a Better Founder

Most founders are too busy executing to reflect. Here’s the 20-minute weekly system that makes you sharper, calmer, and better at the job every single week.

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Hiring & People

The Founder’s Guide to Hiring a Head of Sales (Without Getting Burned)

Your first Head of Sales hire will make or break your next 18 months. Here’s exactly what to look for โ€” and what to avoid.

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AI Prompts

The AI Prompts I Use Every Single Day as a Startup Founder

Not a list of 100 prompts you’ll never use. These are the 7 I actually run every day โ€” for email, decisions, writing, and thinking.

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Product & Growth

How to Build Your First Sales Pipeline When You Have No Sales Team

Every founder has to sell before they can afford a sales team. Here’s the exact pipeline system โ€” with AI doing most of the grunt work.

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Fundraising

How to Raise a Seed Round When You Have No Network

No warm intros. No VC connections. Here’s the exact cold outreach approach that gets investor meetings โ€” and the prompts that help.

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I advise HR and Fintech AI startups from seed to exit. Before that I scaled businesses across North America and Asia Pacific. No-Fluff Founder is where I document my journey, experience and lessons learnt โ€” the AI prompts, hiring frameworks, fundraising tactics โ€” so other founders don’t have to figure it out the hard way. No fluff. Just what works.

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