



How to get (and keep) your first 100 customers
An 18,000-word playbook drawn from interviews with 7 of MENAβs top post-Series A founders, tackling how to build trust before brand equity, validate before users, retain in transient markets, and know when to follow data β and when to trust your gut.

How to get (and keep) your first 100 customers (#2)
An 18,000-word playbook drawn from interviews with 7 of MENAβs top post-Series A founders, tackling how to build trust before brand equity, validate before users, retain in transient markets, and know when to follow data β and when to trust your gut.

How to get (and keep) your first 100 customers (#3)
An 18,000-word playbook drawn from interviews with 7 of MENAβs top post-Series A founders, tackling how to build trust before brand equity, validate before users, retain in transient markets, and know when to follow data β and when to trust your gut.



Rewiring B2B finance in Pakistan and beyond
What it means to build in a market where volatility isnβt a risk β itβs a cyclical certainty, why going top-down beats direct-to-MSME, and how you build real moats in enterprise fintech β not with UX, but with trust, switching friction, and time.


Hubpay: Building the financial backbone of MENA and beyond
The long road to fintech infrastructure in MENA, the overlooked power of remittance corridors, why stablecoins are no longer a sideshow β and what it really means to build a business from the trenches of regulatory complexity.
