Welcome to the 9-5 to Founder Newsletter: Edition Nº 01
Where I share my learnings building a $1M/year startup from scratch, in public as a non-technical founder.
The Content Trap
Writing out your ideas is not producing content, it’s just writing.
Content isn’t content until you press “Publish.”
As important it is to get your ideas on paper, it’s even more important to get those ideas out to the world.
Pick a topic, write about it, edit it, and publish it. That’s all you need to do.
Starting out you won’t have a huge following so don’t worry about perfection.
Your writing will improve as your audience grows.
This Week
Starting from Scratch.
Sticking with the theme of my previous company MeetingIQ - the goal is to talk with sales professionals to understand what processes they want to automate.
Actions:
Instantly Email Warmup
Apollo Target List & Email Sequence
Goal: enroll 10 contacts per day in sequence to book meeting time - discover process pain points, solution proposal, and budget.
Claude Design
I just watched a video with three awesome ways to make your websites stand out using Claude Code. If you want to build sites that actually look great (not just generic AI stuff) you should give this a watch.
Tool of the Week
Prase (parse.bot)
Obsessed With..
Thanks for reading!
- Dimitri
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