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Newsletter #69 - H1 Finished

Published about 18 hours ago • 1 min read

Newsletter #69 - H1 Finished

We’re halfway the year

The good thing about living in Europe is seasonality. It makes me realize the incredible speed at which time passes

It seems only a couple of weeks ago when temperatures were below freezing. Now it’s 34 degrees.

I’m still doing projects, I have 2 current clients - albeit one dormant - and 1 new client in Amsterdam from Wednesday onwards

The plan is to grow this. To grow more clients, and get more projects, and have more people do the work while I focus on sales.

And eventually build products which solves the recurring problems we see

I prefer to focus on sales, on pitching ideas, on doing workshops and trainings as a means of getting my food in the door

Hence I’m writing a small course in ai, to publish as an e-book, a YouTube series, maybe TikTok.

And use that to try to sell training at local companies. And after the training maybe help them implement projects

The only downside is that it’s not a very remote first approach, which is still the end goal: a business I can operate from anywhere in the world

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Why training? Because the tech sphere is very very crowded. Everyone can solve your tech problem - especially in the ai era - but not everyone can explain it, let alone teach.

That’s the plan. The first half of the year is over. I’m still hustling (and burning cash) but I strongly believe we’re building the start of something big!

H2 is going to be amazing!

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