3x Founder | Xoogler | Design Thinking | Follow for daily tips on how to launch, grow, fundraise for and steer your startup.

TL;DR: I bring 15+ years of digital innovation, consultancy, startups and strategic thinking experience to help your startup thrive.

Are you looking to:

→ IDEATE: Zero in on innovative ideas that could disrupt the landscape?
→ BUILD: Build and validate concepts, FAST, using iterative design?
→ GROW: Fully launch and scale using end-to-end go-to-market planning?
→ RAISE: Nail upcoming rounds with a killer fundraising strategy and prep?

Let's chat.

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ABOUT ME:

→ Advisor: Helped 20+ ventures launch, iterate, scale, fundraise, and unlock growth using innovation
→ Founder: Zero to 970k MAUs in 2 years (100% organic)
→ Google: Portfolios of $50M-$100M ARR, focused on bizdev, digital consulting and partnerships
→ Strategist: 100+ strategy and GTM workshops with the biggest global brands
→ Innovation: Stanford d.school bootcamp, IDEO.U, AJ&S, Design Sprint Master, and more.

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Majd Alaily

Fundraising with no revenue?
You can still manage that conversation. Here's how.

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Based on every conversation I'm having these days.
Traction is becoming a non-negotiable for any form of investment today.

And the best thing to show an investor is revenue.
Puts you in a different league.

BUT.
Your build might be at pre-revenue stage.
Doesn't mean you can't showcase *some* traction.

These 8 metrics can showcase your potential,
from weakest to strongest:

1️⃣ Sign-ups:
The number of people who’ve signed up for your release.

2️⃣ Alpha/Beta Testers:
How many users are actively testing and providing feedback?

3️⃣ Registrations:
Count of users who have already registered on your live product.

4️⃣ User Growth:
DAUs, WAUs, MAUs – show growth in active user numbers.

5️⃣ Engagement & Retention:
Prove stickiness with retention rates and churn analysis.

6️⃣ CRM Database:
Size of the database collected for future sales outreach.

7️⃣ Letters of Intent (LOIs):
Preliminary commitments from potential buyers.

8️⃣ Pipeline:
The deals currently in negotiation with prospects.

Showcasing these KPIs in a structured way
can highlight your startup's potential
and help get over your "no revenue yet" hurdle.

What's the best pre-revenue KPI to show traction?

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Listen, you can learn everything on your own for months, or accelerate all of this with the right resources.

Here are 10 websites I used as a founder that made a BIG difference in my entrepreneurship journey:

(1) Y Combinator Startup Library
I can't sing the praises of Startup School enough.
I've pretty much recommended this program to every founder I talked to.
Start here.

(2) Product Hunt
The PH badge is one of the most sought after vanity goals in the ecosystem
(+ it gets you SOLID traffic when you're featured).

It's a trending chart of our industry.
Discover the latest products in the startup space.
Gain inspiration and feedback from a community of tech enthusiasts.

(3) Failory
Our industry focuses so much on success...
We forget 90% of startups fail.

Failory shares stories of startup failures and lessons learned, offering you valuable insights to avoid common pitfalls.

(4) Neil Patel
If you're a founder, you need to learn SEO (yes SEO works STILL).
NP is the best thing out there today to do that.
That's basically it.

(5) Exploding Topics
Identify emerging trends and niche markets, providing you with an ear to the ground of what's coming up in any industry.

(6) GrowthHackers
Fosters a community of growth-hackers, offering you strategies to accelerate your startup's growth.

(7) LinkedIn
My recent discovery these past 2 years.
SO MUCH is happening on linkedin.
Lots of excellent content by many valuable creators.
Make sure to build a shortlist to follow.

(And maybe follow Majd Alaily. Just sayin')

(8) Startup Digest
A great way to build community and network.
Startup Digest curates personalized content and events, keeping you informed with what is happening in our industry.

(9) Reddit, Inc. , r/entrepreneur
As a veteran lurker on reddit, I can't not put a sub from there.
Get real advice and read up on experiences from real people.
Getting rarer and rarer in our days.

(10) Techstars Startup Grind
Another community platform.
Does a really good job in local networking and connecting with global players.

These sites offer invaluable resources, strategies, and community support to help you navigate the startup world.

Friendly advice. All of this content is free + gold.
Make the most of what they have to offer.

Here’s your 1-2-3:
Open browser → Create “Founder Stack” folder → Add these 10 free sites.

What other resource would you add here?

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How do you split equity between co-founders?
This can make or break your startup. Here's how to do it.

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How do you divide equity within the team?
This is one of the most challenging decisions founders face.
Early on in their journey.

And it’s not just about the numbers, it’s about fairness, commitment, and success.

Don't see this as a negotiation.
About how you can maximize your share.
And give the least amount possible to others.

A co-founder can eventually walk away if they feel undervalued.

Here's how to do it instead:

👉 Evaluate contributions, workloads, risk and experience
👉 Go for a dynamic split that values individual commitment
👉 Protects everyone by ensuring equity is earned over time
👉 Focus on being fair
👉 Have a "lead" founder (ideally)
 
Remember.
Being fair is NOT the same as being equal.

Equity discussions are about building trust
and ensuring everyone feels valued.

It’s not just a negotiation, it’s the foundation of a long-term partnership.
Manage it accordingly.

How would you divide equity between co-founders?

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Amazon Web Services (AWS)

•	Produced global thought-leadership content for technical and non-technical audiences, reaching over 10 million views across AWS social media channels with the highest organic engagement metrics

•	Developed content and messaging strategy for the 3 layers of the Generative AI stack

•	Created original tech storytelling frameworks to translate complex technical concepts into clear value propositions that resonate, used by Solution Architects, Developer Advocates, Account Managers, Strategic Marketing, etc.

•	Led internal Gen AI product feedback mechanisms to influence product roadmap and user experience

•	Created and presented a new narrative and technical solution to reduce the onboarding steps for new audiences to Generative AI services by 90% with cross-organizational support

Principal Technology Evangelist, Gen AI

•	Created and executed a regional startup advocacy strategy for EMEA and collaborated with organizational teams

•	Achieved Public Relations (PR) Press Certification, serving as an AWS spokesperson in global media publications 

•	Developed the 'MVP Lab' narrative to simplify AWS introduction to startup founders, producing high-engagement video content (60K+ views, 1K+ likes) which is being integrated into an AWS Learning path

•	Led a track for AWS Innovate conference 2024, co-creating 5 original Generative AI presentations which achieved the highest CSAT rating of the conference

•	Senior speaker at 8 AWS Summits and co-authored the 'Golden Content Playlist for Startup Summits' used at 11 AWS EMEA summits in 2024

Principal Startup Advocate for Europe, the Middle East and Africa

Opus Talent Analytics Inc.

Advise on:
- The vision and strategy for the technology goals and product marketing roadmap.
- How to build a culture of innovation for the software and user experience.
- Scaling the development and data science team.

Advisor and Shareholder

• TEDx Speaker, ‘The Future of Software & Innovation’ at TEDxDabouq, April 2025
• Keynote at AWS GenAI Loft, April 2025
• Speaker at University of Artificial intelligence, Abu Dhabi, September 2024
• AWS Summit Berlin, May 2024
• Hub5 Conference Keynote, Dubai, May 2024
• AWS Summit Amsterdam, April 2024
• AWS Innovate Conference, London January 2024
• World Investment Forum, Abu Dhabi, UAE October 2023
• AWS Summit Johannesburg, South Africa September 2023
• MISK Launchpad, Saudi Arabia, July 2023
• 500Global Seed Bootcamp, June 2023
• RiseUp Summit, Cairo Egypt June 2023
• AWS Summit Berlin, Germany May 2023
• Founders Circle, Amsterdam, Netherlands March 2023
• Hub71, Abu Dhabi, UAE February 2023
• DTEC Sandbox, March 2023
• Speaker, 2 hour live zoom talk on Hiring and Talent Pipelining, 2020
• Podcast guest, Let’s take this online (UAE), 2019
• Guest Speaker for new cohort at Smart City Dubai 2019
• Speaker, How to Start a Startup, Arab Academy for Science and Technology 2019
• BBC Arabic Interview, 2019
• ONTV Interview, 2018
• Podcast guest, the Victor Antonio show, 2018
• Podcast guest, the Wanderfy Podcast, 2018
• Speaker at the Society of International Business Fellows (SIBF) 2 hour talk in Texas USA 2018
• Speaker at the Middle East Leadership Conference (MELA) 1 hour session on storytelling in business, Jordan 2018
• Presenter at Demo Day Smart City, Dubai 2018
• Speaker at Founders Institute on Startup Milestones, Cairo 2018
• Speaker, Startups in Emerging Markets - London Business School 2018
• Speaker at Falak, 2 hour talk on recruitment for startups, Greek Campus Cairo 2018
• Speaker at Voices of Hope (MBC), Library of Alexandria, 2018
• Mentor and Speaker, Flat6 Labs, Cairo 2018
• Panelist at Techne Summit, panelist Alexandria 2017 and 2018
• Guest Lecturer, American University in Cairo - Digital Marketing, Cairo 2017
• Mentor, Entrepreneurship program for students INJAZ 2016 - 2017

Keynote Speaker

HireHunt

•	Raised $100k in seed funding in 2016 from Cairo Angels and external investors from PWC and Microsoft.

•	Hired and managed a team of 10 to work with over 1000 companies, 150k applicants and reach 500k monthly interactions with users in 9 countries on website, chat-bot and social media campaigns.

•	Designed and developed the architecture, user experience and code for HireHunt; an interactive, gamified, AI-powered recruitment technology platform to help the right applicants and employers find each other without bias.

•	Developed efficient matching and ranking algorithms using Machine Learning to rank applicants to jobs based on their full linguistic profiles and results from automated assessments using gamification, voice answers and chat-bots.

•	HireHunt Chatbot selected as finalist by Facebook in the 2017 Bots for Messenger Challenge.

•	Developed HireHunt Campaigns to help companies quickly get applicants for their vacancies using Facebook Ads through the Marketing API. Over $8,000 generated in paid ads on Facebook through HireHunt.

•	Presented and sold enterprise contracts to C-level executives in several multinationals at values of approximately $50,000.

•	Started co-sell partnership with Microsoft in 2019 to target their SMB and enterprise customers in exchange for utilizing Azure instances.

•	Co-wrote scripts and performed the ‘voice over’ for HireHunt’s original video content which has reached over 4 million organic views online.

•	Signed revenue-share partnership in 2019 with Silicon Oasis Dubai to provide HireHunt recruitment software to over 1000 companies within DTEC.

•	Led the pitch and application of HireHunt at Smart City Dubai 2018 to be selected from 1000 entries and attended Smart City Dubai program 2018 sponsored by Smart Dubai, Visa, Orange, etc.

•	Created products and sales strategies for the digital transformation of recruitment in the Middle East.

Founder, Head of Marketing

Link Development

•	Managed Taree2y project within the "Intrapreneurship" Catalyst program, which was a realtime traffic mapping tool to help commuters reach their destination fast (prior to Google Maps traffic reports).

•	Worked with UI and UX designers on user journey, onboarding and user experience goals to increase daily usage and meet the business objectives of the app.

•	Managed nation-wide marketing rollouts and SMS campaigns in partnership with Mobinil.

•	Managed team of 4 developers and quality control engineers.

Senior Product Consultant

•	Developed Hadoota iPad app, which presented interactive animations of Abla Fadila’s classic children stories to a new generation of children.

•	Developed Picasso iPad app, a drawing and painting app.

•	Web developer on Onkosh.com, the world’s first Arabic search engine with transliteration capabilities.

Technical Lead

Orascom Telecom

•	Responsible for in-house software solutions primarily using Java.

•	Regional travel in MENA for technical consultation meetings with subsidiaries.

Senior Software Engineer

Picostation

Software Engineer

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Entertainment Editor

Born during the holy shift of the pixelated eighties. Raised in the screeches & whistles of the digital infiltration. Reached consciousness just as we all became officially connected. Spent a decade figuring things out under various trees and in big dark rooms. Fell in love. Started to floss. Helped bring someone new to Earth. Made HireHunt. Joined AWS.

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Basil Fateen

SaaS isn’t dead; it’s transforming.

I glimpsed the future after chatting with Ahmed Abdelrahman, CTO of Bayzat, the region’s top HR tech platform.

A great CTO doesn’t just follow the ball, they see where it’s going. 

Which is easier said than done in these bizarre times.

After our chat, it was clear that Ahmed has the key traits needed from tech leaders in this phase:

1- They know old playbooks won’t work anymore

They’re rewriting new ones like scientists; running experiments with AWS and
Amazon Bedrock to measure real ROI and testing innovations gradually with their 3,000+ clients.

2- They work backwards from the customer

They know that the underlying technology isn’t what matters, it’s how it helps solve a business problem for the end user. And if it doesn’t, then it shouldn't be forced as the solution.

3- They understand culture and user psychology

Every organization is a bit different, and how they navigate different company structures, cultures, and technical maturities across regions is key to providing scalable value. 

SO...I’m working on some exciting new content with Ahmed and other key technical leaders in the region, exploring how these pioneers are striking the balance between autonomy and control when integrating agents into their platforms for this brave new world.

Stay tuned...big things are coming 🚀 

#Agents #SAAS #Startups #AWS

Absolutely blown away by the response to ‘AI in the Wild’ so far! 🤘🏼🤩

Here’s a sneak peek from our upcoming NFL episode 🏈

It was a real pleasure to film with American Football legend Jermaine Kearse and NFL data icon Cynthia Frelund.

And also stay tuned for a VERY special episode from Dubai! 😎 

Thank you to everyone who has been liking, commenting and sharing this series. I truly appreciate all the support!

#AI #AWS #NFL #DUBAI

What happens when football takes on 50 billion data points?
EP 2 of 'AI in the Wild' featuring Jürgen Klinsmann! ⚽🔥

From real-time match insights to personalized commentary for millions of fans worldwide...AWS AI is powering Bundesliga football like you’ve never seen before.

Episode link in the comments below.

#AI #Bundesliga #AWS #SportsTech

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