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Building a startup

Founding, fundraising, scaling, and the decisions you only make once.

20 posts

2025

  1. 99.9% uptime with a six-person team

2024

  1. What enterprise compliance actually requires from an engineering team
  2. Cutting operational costs 30% while growing system usage 50%
  3. GCP + Cloud Run + FastAPI: the stack I keep reaching for
  4. Growing from 2 to 30+ installations in twelve months

2022

  1. Speed as a product feature
  2. European Patent EP 4 323 939 B1: what we built and why we protected it
  3. Selling AI to enterprise: what technical founders get wrong
  4. Building ML infrastructure for under EUR 100K

2021

  1. Building for millions of requests: the architecture decisions that held
  2. Raising EUR 6M: the technical founder's fundraising notes
  3. Founding Countercheck: what the first 90 days actually look like

2020

  1. 50 conversations before writing a line of code
  2. Moving a 500-person global program online in three weeks

2017

  1. Why I'm Going to San Francisco
  2. Expanding to the US With No Network and Too Much Confidence

2016

  1. Shipping to the App Store and Google Play Simultaneously: What Breaks, What Holds
  2. The Microsoft BizSpark Programme: What $120K in Azure Credits Actually Gets You
  3. Winning Y2FI and What Nobody Tells You About Startup Competitions
  4. Building a Social App Solo: Xamarin, iOS, Android, and a Backend, All at Once