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Diagnosing Growth Bottlenecks: What’s Stopping You From Scaling?
Every founder reaches a point when growth slows, stagnates, or worse — reverses. And in most cases, it’s not because the idea isn’t good or the market isn’t ready. It’s because something within the business — the structure, the mindset, the execution — is bottlenecking its potential to scale. Diagnosing these growth bottlenecks is one…
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A Love Letter from my Heart
Hello, It’s me — not the mind that strategises or the voice that speaks on stages. It’s the heart that beats quietly behind it all. The one that has stood by Salma through storms and sunshine. And today, with 60 days to go before we turn 55, I asked for this space. To speak. To…
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What I Look for Before Saying Yes to Mentoring a Founder
Over the years, I’ve had the privilege of mentoring some incredible founders — each on a different journey, at a different stage, with a different story to tell. But I’ve also learned to pause before saying “yes.” Mentorship is not a service. It’s a relationship. One that demands trust, time, and truth from both ends.…
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Choosing your Founding Team: Beyond Comfort, Towards Complementarity
When I meet founders / Leadership Teams — especially the ones brimming with energy and belief in their idea — one of the first questions I ask is: who are you building this with? It’s such an underrated decision. Often rushed. Often romanticized. And more often than not, made within the walls of comfort. We…
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Mission Impossible – Final Countdown for the both of us
Back in 1996, when the first Mission Impossible movie hit the screens, I was 26, close to 90 kilos and gradually tipping the scale past 100. While Tom Cruise was leaping off buildings and outsmarting villains on screen, I was silently battling a mission of my own — the long, slow war against weight gain,…
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Rich vs. King: The Startup Dilemma No One Warns You About
Entrepreneurship, on the outside, looks like freedom, passion, and a dash of madness. But peel the layers and you’ll find a game of chess, with one question at the center of it all: Do you want to be rich, or do you want to be king? What’s at Stake: Wealth or Control As a founder,…