Founders' Mondays: Strengthening the Signals - Scope
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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 (completed)
- Part 3b: Scope (this week)
- 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.