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Entries by Tarek Riman
Email, Newsletter, and the Owned Audience
Why email is still the most valuable channel — and how to build a list from zero with welcome sequences and weekly publishing.
Customer Discovery and Validation in 2026
A structured customer discovery framework: 20-30 interviews, smoke tests, and pre-sales — plus the 5 mistakes that kill validation.
Funding, Pricing, and Unit Economics for Entrepreneurs
Bootstrap or raise? Price for value or cost? The 2026 funding and unit-economics framework for entrepreneurs.
Operations and Automation Without the Debt
Build a lean ops stack that scales — the 5-layer 2026 automation playbook plus what to automate first.
Building a Lean AI-Powered Team
How a 5-person AI-powered company can outperform a 25-person traditional team — the lean org chart for 2026.
Brand, Trust, and the Founder Personal Brand
Why the founder personal brand is now a primary growth channel — and the 5-layer stack to build trust in 2026.
Sales in the AI Era: How Modern Founders Win Customers
Sales got more human, not less. The AI did the boring parts. The hard part — trust — still walks on two legs. Buyers in 2026 arrive pre-informed by AI engines, pre-screened by tools, and pre-skeptical of generic outreach. The new sales playbook: AI does the prep, humans do the conversation. Founders sell the first […]
Founder Marketing & Visibility: SEO + AEO + GEO for the AI Era
In 2026, you don’t market a business. You make it findable, citable, and trustworthy on every surface where buyers go looking. Visibility runs on three engines simultaneously: SEO (classic Google rankings), AEO (Answer Engine Optimization for AI Overviews), and GEO (Generative Engine Optimization for ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini). Plus brand and community. Old SEO tactics […]
Building AI-Native Products: Beyond the Bolt-On Chatbot
Bolting a chatbot onto a 2018 product is like adding a steering wheel to a couch. It’s still a couch. AI-native products aren’t old products with AI features bolted on. They’re built around the assumption that intelligence, generation, and personalization are free at the edges. Four traits: adapts to the user, generates instead of selects, […]