Kai Hua
Systematic product-market fit insights for early-stage founders
The Forward Deployment Approach That Helped Build $100B+ Companies
The Forward Deployment Approach That Helped Build $100B+ Companies What I discovered studying how Palantir, OpenAI, and other B2B tech giants used systematic customer discovery to find breakthrough product-market fit and when this approach makes sense for founders What I’ve Been Researching: A Powerful Discovery Approach Most Founders Overlook I’ve been researching how some of the world’s most valuable B2B companies actually discovered their breakthrough product-market fit, and I found...
Foundation Sprint Workshop
My First Foundation Sprint with an AI Startup: How We Turned Strategic Confusion Into a Testable Hypothesis “We don’t know what we don’t know until we’re faced with tough questions.” That’s what I realized halfway through my first Foundation Sprint workshop with the team behind Werd.ai, an AI startup I met through my network. They had come to me with a challenge that sounded familiar: they were on to something big. They had built and launched Werd.ai as an MVP for content strategy, powered by...
I survived as a design solopreneur, but discovered something better
Hey Reader, If you were wondering where I've been for the last 8 months... I was taking the time to figure out some things in my career. The last thing I shared here was my solopreneur struggles in January. I documented the cash flow issues, the desperation for clients, the lack of leverage. I called it a failure and thought I'd learned my lesson about building a sustainable business. But I was looking at the wrong problem entirely. I Survived, But Something Was Missing After that post, I...
Why I Failed Solopreneurship
60 Paya Lebar Road, #07-54 Paya Lebar Square, Singapore, 409051Unsubscribe · Preferences Last year, in January of 2024, I quit my 9-to-5 to become a freelance solopreneur full-time. And I failed. I’ll walk through what happened and what went wrong so you can avoid these pitfalls. By starting your solopreneurship journey on the right foot, you drastically increase your business’ chances of survival. This is how you make the business work for you rather than you working for the business. The...
Systematic product-market fit insights for early-stage founders