Katt Risen

Build The Keyword

Find online business ideas that will bring you customers on auto-pilot

Product of the day #1 on Product Hunt

Founder

nocode-exits.com (acquired)

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Product of the day #3 on Product Hunt

100DaysOfNoCode

Practicioner in Residence

Creator in Residence

No-Code Guru (Acquired)

A wise tool advisor for beginner No-Code makers

Maker

MY STORY

+ Before 2022
Reading business books and listening to startup podcasts. Always lurking, never doing.
Always full of ideas and dreams, but never the skills to act on it.

+ February 2022
Learned about No-Code and joined the 100 Days of No-Code Bootcamp

+ April 2022
Launched my first side project made with No-Code on Product Hunt

+ June 2022
Started doing No-Code freelance gigs
Gave my first No-Code workshop

+ August 2022
First side project got acquired

+ Augustus 2022
Started www.nocode-exits.com

+ 2023
Quit my job to go full time No-Code. Freelancing and building a portfolio of tiny products made with No-Code

+ 2024
Started www.buildthekeyword.com

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Product of the day #3 on Product Hunt

Ambitious Labs

Building the #1 app idea accelerator in the world.

- Raised mid 6-figure angel round
- 7-figure annual revenue 
- Built a high performing enrollments department 
- 4.9 star google reviews
- Developed cutting edge ai powered learning platform

Founder + CEO

Closercademy

CEO, Founder

University of California, Berkeley

Guest lecturer for the Product Launch class under the Sutardja center for entrepreneurship & technology.

Teaching full-stack no-code AI development to business students interested in launching app startups.

Guest Lecturer

FlutterFlow

Championing the FlutterFlow product for the USA market.

Content Creator & Ambassador

First Check Ventures

- Syndicate member of First Check Ventures. I write $2k-$5k checks to a handful of promising companies every year. 

- Invested in Everything Green Organics, a farm to table startup out of Windsor, California.

Angel Investor

Yummy 

Venezuela’s super app. Doordash + Uber. Invested very early alongside FCV syndicate.

Angel Investor via First Check Ventures

PrizePicks

- #1 App for Sports in the iOS App Store
- #1 Daily Fantasy Sports App in the Country 2022
- Senior Mobile Engineer owning CI/CD, release management and user acquisition engineering

Head of Mobile & Growth Engineering

- Lead product engineering of top a 10 Sports App in iOS App Store
- Day to day: React, CapacitorJS, Swift/Java, Growth Marketing, App Analytics, AdTech, Product Marketing, Re-engagement
- Achieved industry leading engagement rates by developing new features against KPI goals. (CAC, virality co-efficient, etc) 
- Built a world class marketing tech stack in close collaboration with Marketing and Data Science.

Head Mobile Engineer

Season Share

Co founded and led product and engineering. Worked closely with VPs at major league teams to earn buy in for our products. Responsible for deploying 50+ products in market generating 10s of millions of dollars of revenue for our partners. Architected a distributed system capable of supporting 500k MAUs & high traffic on-sale windows.

Co-founder + CTO 

Hourglass Education Technology Solutions, LLC

Worked on cutting edge institutional education software. Mentored on ReactJS best practices. Individual contributor in a disciplined agile/scrum environment.

Senior Mobile App Engineer (React Native) 

San Jose State University

Instructional Assistant 

Grew up in a small town and had to work extra hard to get my foot in the door working on cool tech startups. My first job at age 15 was fixing iPhone screens in the mall. Then I scooped ice cream at Cold Stone Creamery and bussed tables at a local airport restaurant to pay for college. 

After football practice in high school I'd be learning how to code on CodeAcademy. People thought I was a nerd. 

Fast forward 10 years -- I've built multiple apps, b2b SaaS, internet businesses, websites, and e-commerce businesses that have generated over $100m collectively. 

I got to work remotely, travel to 12+ countries, invest in real estate and stocks and built a fruitful living for myself. 

Learning how to build apps changed my life. Now I’m on a mission to teach 10,000 people how to build apps.

Alim Charaniya

🐾 Cat's out the bag! Ambitious Labs has been acquired by RapidDev - a leading global software development consultancy!

What started as a small in-person cohort of 8 students at Atlanta Tech Village in early 2022 has grown into a globally recognized education company that has empowered over 1,200 founders to launch their own revenue-generating apps.

After spending five years as a developer and helping scale PrizePicks from 2,000 users to over 2 million users, I saw the rise of AI and knew it would change everything about how software is built. I couldn’t sleep at night knowing how accessible app development was about to become — and I wanted to help others take advantage of it.

That was the birth of Ambitious Labs — an academy where entrepreneurs could learn to turn ideas into real products, no computer-science degree or MBA required. Through our flagship program, Dreams Into Apps™, we built a framework that taught thousands of non-technical founders to build, launch, and monetize software. Our mission was simple: help everyday people become full-stack entrepreneurs.

Over the past three years, we’ve grown to a 20-person team, achieved $250K/month cash collected, and maintained a 4.9-star rating on Google, and  known as top no-code bootcamp on Course Report. Nearly 90% of our builders who launch their app generate real revenue. We’ve proven that software education can be both accessible and profitable.

Under RapidDev leadership, Matt Graham 👨‍💻 Ambitious Labs will expand its offerings — helping founders bring products to life faster than ever before. Together, we’ll continue to deliver world-class training, partner with universities, and scale the Dreams Into Apps Accelerator globally. I’ll remain involved in a strategic capacity, focusing on our major university partnerships and ensuring a smooth transition.

To my incredible team — past and present — thank you. You lived our value of ruthless obsession with customer success. You showed up early, stayed late, and kept builders at the center of every decision. 

Sandro Franco Taylor Martinez Jason Boschung Jeika Bryll Lago Tugce Koseoglu Andres Sanchez Caleb Martinez Adrian Durso Henry Moses Jr Zayan Hussain Adrián Ruiz Salazar Muhammad Sohaib Tahir Alex Moscanov Jarrid Brummer 

And to our students - both past and present: Your belief fueled everything we built. To my FIRST CUSTOMER Torrence Mays to the new student who joined this morning - Thank you for your belief and pushing us to be great. 

This milestone is both an ending and a beginning.

As for what’s next — I’m now fully focused on solving a $100B problem in the sales space. More to come on that later!  

— Alim Charaniya 🚀
#Acquired #EdTech #HighTicketEducation #VibeCodeAccelerator FlutterFlow BuildShip

Sold My $250k/mo Company → Founder, CloserCoach.ai → AI x Sales x Training

Like a good neighbor, State Farm , I mean.. CloserCoach  is there! 🎶

We just closed our third B2B client, and this one’s special.

Welcome to CloserCoach, State Farm !

We’re officially training our first multi-seat insurance office, with five licensed agents joining the platform as part of an annual training program agreement. 

Insurance is one of the hardest B2C sales environments out there — constant outreach, lead follow-ups, re-quotes, objections, and relationship-building.

Agents are always:
📞 Calling leads from online portals
🔥 Competing for attention in a crowded market
💬 Dealing with the same objections over and over

That’s exactly where CloserCoach shines.

Our AI sales training platform helps insurance reps:
✅ Handle objections better
✅ Build confidence through realistic AI roleplays
✅ Convert more calls into closed policies

And soon — our real-time sales analytics platform will help managers coach smarter and scale faster.

We’re growing fast — with 100+ new downloads per day and more teams discovering the power of consistent, data-driven feedback for their reps.

If you run an insurance office or manage a sales team that talks directly to customers — it’s time to train like the top 1%.

👉 Book a demo at https://CloserCoach.ai

#sales #insurance #ai #coaching #closercoach #b2b #startups

Founder, CloserCoach.ai → AI x Sales x Training

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Most people would call this sexist. Or raise a DEI flag.

But I call it what it is — the truth.

Building a high-performing sales team isn’t about equality of roles.

It’s about alignment with your ICP.

You need variety across your sales team.

Different backgrounds, personalities, communication styles.

Because the cold truth is this:
👉 Many deals are lost simply because the prospect doesn’t like the rep.
👉 They don’t relate.
👉 They don’t trust them.

People buy from people they know, like, and trust. PERIOD!

At Ambitious Labs, our SDRs were trained to match prospects with the right closer — the one whose tone, background, or energy aligned best with that customer.

Some of our “almost lost” deals were won just by swapping the rep.

Team diversity isn’t a buzzword.
It’s a conversion lever.

And it can be the difference between closing 20% of your deals and 35%.

Everything in sales is an optimization problem — including who’s sitting across the (virtual) table.

Curious to hear what you think — is this clever or sexist? 👇

Btw - 5000+ sales pros are using Closer Coach to get better at sales! Try it out here: https://lnkd.in/gA3tbdSM

How we scaled to $250k/month with a team of 100% commission only sales reps...

We didn't pay our team a single $1 in base salary.

And we managed to retain some of our best reps for 2+ years.

Here’s the playbook we used 👇

1️⃣ We pay for the calls AND set them on the calendar. 
If you’re not generating demand, you’ll never attract killers.
Your job as the founder is to make the calendar full.
We ran ads to a book a call funnel. 

2️⃣ Hire the right mix of setters and closers.
- Setters (SDRs) take discovery calls, call opt ins, and set qualified leads for a closer. 
- Closers pitch the product and collect cash.

Both roles are clear. No confusion, no overlap. One person does one job VERY well. 

3️⃣ Align incentives.
- We paid $100 to get a qualified discovery call from ads
60% showed up → 70% set a closer call → 60% of those showed up.
✅ Cost per closer call: ~$400.

We closed 35% of those deals through better training, objection handling, and data-driven roleplays.

That's about a $1200 CAC..

Our job - make 3x that on the frontend.. that's a 3:1 ROAS 

4️⃣ Pay only for results.

We paid 10% commission on cash collected.
Our reps made between $4,500 and $10,500/month depending on performance.

⸻

No salary.
No excuses.
Just AI.

⸻
💼 Do you run a sales team that you KNOW isn't training as much as they should? Connect with me!

Everyone wants MRR. I want a sales rep who collects $80K/month..

But the biggest revenue hack in business isn’t a feature or funnel.

It’s a sales rep.

It sounds daunting to hire one — but humans are the best sales machines on Earth.

They build trust. They close deals.

And one good rep can collect $80K/month for you — consistently.

💰 A human can sell your product for 10x more than a landing page ever will.
🧠 Train them on your product.
⚙️ Build them a simple funnel for leads.
🔥 They’ll make you money forever.

Sales reps are naturally hungry. They want job security.
And when they win, you win.

For every business I build — now and forever —
I’ll always have a salesperson at the center of it.

⸻

⚡️ Want to build, scale, and train your sales team with AI?
Comment “AI Sales” and I’ll DM you more about CloserCoach.ai

Open article: Closercademy - AI Sales Coaching App by closercoach.ai

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