Founders' Mondays: Strengthening the Signals - Customers

Why we’re here? Give serious AI-native founders in Singapore an edge so they keep moving from building to delivering. Who it’s for?

• Actively building (pre-MVP, post-launch, late-stage)
• Want’s likeminded peers and structured problem-solving
• Interested in at-least weekly cadence
• Open to committing if the value is real

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How the day plays out?

10am — Doors open As we say in Singapore, OTOT. 12.30pm — Lunch & Social BYOF. Meet your peers. Build real relationships over food. 2:30pm — The Work Room From founder topics that broaden your awareness, to real-time problem-solving. This is where you build your founder muscle and keep moving 5pm — “Next move” We roundup & wrap here.

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The Work Room

We bring a veteran. You come with something real: what you’ve done, what changed, what’s stuck. This is your time to focus on being a founder, leader, business owner. Not just tech, not just AI, but running a business. It could be: Pipelines. Product. Marketing. Segments. Users. Traction. Flywheels. Budgets. Teams. Funding. Pricing Contracts. Taxes. Regulation… Bring a problem, leave with a decision/direction/solution that’s yours. Follow-up next week. Weekly Founder Topic 20-30 mins, talk or learning Short session on a real founder topic, drawn from the room, or brought by someone who’s lived through it. Founder Cases 2-3 cases, up to 45 mins each Facilitated and collaborative problem-solving with your peers in the room.

This week's session will focus on: Testing what's real. This will be an ongoing series for tuning your business engine:

• Part 1: "Seeing your engine" (completed)
• Part 2: "Testing What's Real" (completed)
• Part 3: Strengthening the signals
• Part 3a: customers (this week)
• Part 3b: Scope
• Part 3c: Economics
• Part 3d: Repeatibility

It will be facilitated by: Matthew Hillier Founder & Principal Navigator, The Third Way

• Angel Review Committee (ARC) Member, AngelCentral
• Former EVP Product & Platform Innovation, CloudPay ~18 years across Product, SaaS, and global teams.