CTO turned CMO | My code is making $3M+ ARR | 2x products #1 of the day on ProductHunt

Hey, I'm Igor. 👋

I've co-founded Momentum Page and ClipWing (both products #1 of the day on ProductHunt)

I share what I can to help community around me build $1M startups and beyond (our biggest partner's exit is $1.2B)

Some of the startups we helped build and scale
• VeroSkills (700K ARR reached within 4 months since first users)
• goLance.com (100s of thousands of users)
• Robomongo (1M+ downloads)
and more

I believe that every startup is a media company

You can also find me on twitter: https://twitter.com/igormomentum

Thanks!

Igor Krasnik

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Last week was super hot in the world of databases. All because of the release of a new database called SpacetimeDB.

Check out this article to learn what's so special about SpacetimeDB and why it spawned an active discourse in the database world:

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Norris Panton

Experienced fitness operator. Commercial experience in leisure and hospitality. Start-up mentor and coach.

Founder

Supporting great people. Challenging social injustice. Doing good stuff.

“Are you Isobelle’s dad⁉️

I used to get recognised in my own right.

Now I get flagged down because of my daughters.

And honestly?
Best rebrand of my life.

Nothing makes you “big-up” your chest quite like being beelined by good good people who think highly of your kids. Not their grades. Not their trophies. Them.

🤩 Gorgeous 
🤩 Kind.
🤩 Confident.
🤩 Happy.

My girls have been described (via association) as:

👇🏾 Force of Nature
👇🏾 Real Superstar
👇🏾 Manchester Gold
👇🏾 “You… but with long hair” (personal favourite)

There was a time when I cared about titles, panels, job descriptions, the corporate pecking order.

Now?

If my three daughters walk into a room and leave it better than they found it, that’s the KPI.

Forget personal brand.
Build humans.

If your greatest achievement isn’t on your LinkedIn profile…

You’re probably doing it right.

Thanks Alex Ayin  and PerformX Live  

Isobelle Panton Emily Panton Sophie Panton

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“You can dig graves and you can play chess.”
– MobLand

Most of us have more than one skill. 🤷🏾‍♂️

🪏 We’ve dug the graves. 
♟️ We’ve played the chess.

But no matter how high we climb, we should never forget where we started. Even when we breathe the rarefied air of CEO, we should never be too grand to roll our sleeves up and get our hands dirty again.

Two types of CEO: 

Corporate CEO
Vs.
The Owner, CEO, majority shareholder

One is more focused on corporate governance guidelines and stakeholder relations.
The other will basically crawl through broken glass to protect what they built.

A “friend of mine”, big tings in the industry explained to me:

For one, “ CEO is just a job, albeit a big job”

For the other, “it’s the roof over my family’s head and the food on their table. It’s way bigger, it’s life and death”

Both have responsibilities but.
Only one loses sleep.

In business, people with skin in the game move differently. 

✅ They’re calmer in chaos. 

✅ Not easy to intimidate. 

✅ When things get tough they go H.A.M. 

✅ Slower to quit.

So the question isn’t what title you have.

It’s this:

Are you only ever playing chess?

Or are you still digging graves.

Let’s discuss…See you at PerformX Live  🤩

#CEO 


Loren Holland William Rasmussen-Dean  Danny Costello Ryan Johnston Marc Diaper Steve Orton Jake Fullerty  GAIN Gulf Active Industry Network

Old friends and new 👊🏾

Super to catch up with Darren Golden  Exigo®. 30 years of building some of the best equipment in the business. Always looking to the future, only innovator I know in Rochdale. 🤷🏾‍♂️

Nice to meet Ekow The Engine Essuman, what a humdinger of a fight against Jack Catterall end of last year. Good things ahead for this humble hardworking champion.

3 guesses what we talked about At PerformX Live ? 🤩

#boxing #fitness GAIN Gulf Active Industry Network  Ekow Essuman

“Rumours of my demise are greatly exaggerated.”

Pretty sure that was Mark Twain.
Feels appropriate.

Dinner last night on The Palm.
Traffic light.
Booking easy.
Perspective intact.

For a region that’s seen more “combat action” and “regime change” headlines than most, this isn’t new territory. The soundtrack changes. The resilience doesn’t.

In unsettled times the choice is stark:

Hibernate.
Shrink.
Refresh the news every 12 seconds and let anxiety rent space in your head.

Or

Crack on.
Show up.
Back your people.
Refuse to let anyone make your world smaller.

We live in the Middle East. Optimism is a built-in feature 

Thanks to the well wishers who checked in.
I’m good. We’re good.

This too shall pass. 🤷🏾‍♂️

Samantha Burke Gemma Hughes  #dubai

Hot air ⁉️

I once read that “every company is a marketing company.”

True.

But not every company markets like a challenger brand with nothing to lose and everything to prove.

When Rory McEntee , CMO of GymNation  (nee Gymbox , nee Paddy Power ), took to the stage at PerformX Live , I swear there was wolf whistling, cat calling and borderline hysteria. For a second I thought we’d wandered into the warm-up set at a Deirdre O’Kane gig.

The man doesn’t “present.”
He just casually owns the room.

It’s less keynote, more pub chat with 300 of your closest mates. Irish lilt smoother than a pint of the Black Stuff. But here’s the thing, beneath the banter? Absolute gospel.

Challenger brand marketing for world domination apparently rests on five pillars:

	1.	Unapologetically position yourself differently
	2.	Ask forgiveness, not permission
	3.	Get comfortable being uncomfortable
	4.	Take on your legal team and your board
	5.	Have some fun marketing

None of it revolutionary.
All of it rarely executed.

Most brands want challenger results with corporate behaviour.
Doesn’t work.

If you’re going to rattle cages, rattle them properly.

Best talk I’ve seen at an industry event. Ever.

And no, that’s not hot air.

#GymNation
#Guinness
GAIN Gulf Active Industry Network

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