Amadou

Fulani 🐄 | 32yr - PMP. MBA - Product & Business Development Leader.

An unserious CEO, doing serious things @protegeyhq | Fighting Fraud in Africa.

[Amadou @captaindiallo]

Enterprise-grade Fraud, Risk and Compliance Infrastructures shouldn't be reserved for the big players.

We're bringing it to startups.

@_mtchy_ @MonsieurUwem @asemota @latoria_ria @wizaj @Jasielinvests and @SemudaraAbayomi please point founders who'll benefit to this program.

[Anuj @anujcodes_21]

🚨Anthropic just showed a 24-minute workshop on how to actually do prompts for Claude.

Taught by the people who built it.

Free. No registration. No paywall.

I've seen $300 courses that don't cover what they teach in the first 8 minutes.

Watch it and bookmark it now.

[Tony O. Elumelu, CFR @TonyOElumelu]

What defines success? And how can you replicate it?

Luck, as I often say, plays an important role. I have been lucky on my own journey. But with all that, we still face uncertainties, surprises, reversals.

What really distinguishes an entrepreneur, an entrepreneur who succeeds, is how we respond to those changing circumstances.

Read the full article on my blog: 👇🏾

https://t.co/FO0bvw3upc

[Amadou @captaindiallo]

@hackSultan Which president please? The president of Pluto?

[Y Combinator @ycombinator]

Many founders start their customer search with cold email, LinkedIn, and prospecting tools. But the first 10 customers rarely come from a tool. It starts somewhere else: your network, showing up in person, and a willingness to do things that don't scale.

In this episode of Startup School, YC Visiting Partner @maxkolysh draws on dozens of YC founder stories to explain how to identify the right buyers, start conversations, and turn them into your first customers.

0:00 - Why the first 10 are different
0:54 - Where does your buyer actually spend their time?
2:45 - Customers 1–3: work your warm network first
4:20 - Get in the room
5:14 - Conferences and founder dinners
6:15 - Find where your customers complain online
7:30 - How to go outbound
8:35 - Frame outreach as advice
10:20 - Writing outreach that sounds human
13:15 - Recap: The first 10 come from you

[Amadou @captaindiallo]

@signorabraham @MaxBayen @fatuogwuche @ChidinmaOkoli_ please share with a founder you know will need this.

[Amadou @captaindiallo]

Enterprise-grade Fraud, Risk and Compliance Infrastructures shouldn't be reserved for the big players.

We're bringing it to startups.

@_mtchy_ @MonsieurUwem @asemota @latoria_ria @wizaj @Jasielinvests and @SemudaraAbayomi please point founders who'll benefit to this program.

[Amadou @captaindiallo]

@billgnofficial https://t.co/nQV4zE3i3G

[Amadou @captaindiallo]

Les infrastructures de lutte contre la fraude, les risques et la conformité de niveau entreprise ne devraient pas être réservées aux grandes organisations.

@regisbamba @alybadara @MarcialMonthe @africatechie svp veuillez partager avec les startups dans votre réseau. Merci 🙏

[Amadou @captaindiallo]

Merci là-bas!

[Lotanna Ezeike 💳 @lottsnomad]

founders build for edge cases

buyers buy for the common case

solve the obvious problem first

obviously

[Amadou @captaindiallo]

Ah ah ah 😄 this question finna get me upset 😂

[Ardent_Dev @ardent__dev]

Are you building something people want...

or something you want?

[Amadou @captaindiallo]

Distribution any day

[Omar @omarvvvr]

As a founder

If you could master only one:

-marketing
-coding
-selling
-product
-distribution

What are you choosing? 👇

[Amadou @captaindiallo]

Another one! 🔥

[Paul Graham @paulg]

How to Earn a Billion Dollars: https://t.co/WeWBUkKym6

[Amadou @captaindiallo]

VC money is for scaling.

[Steph from OpenVC @StephNass]

Founder: “We built the product. We’re raising to fund the launch.”

VC: “Nice. Launch it and come back in 3 months with the numbers.”

And honestly, they're not wrong...

[Steph from OpenVC @StephNass]

Founder: “We built the product. We’re raising to fund the launch.”

VC: “Nice. Launch it and come back in 3 months with the numbers.”

And honestly, they're not wrong...

[max @maxkolysh]

one YC founder this batch went from $0 to $30K MRR in 2 months, entirely by showing up to his prospects' offices in person.

he'll sit w/ engineers until they fully set up his product

one company kicked him out after he went there 4 times in 1 week. but his close rate is >50%.

[Amadou @captaindiallo]

@sridharfyi Based on the problem we're solving and language + creativity.

We're protecting Africa's Financial Institutions against fraud and financial crimes.

And in french that means to protéger, which we pinned as PROTEGEY @ProtegeyHQ

[Osaretin Victor Asemota @asemota]

Very important!

[Varun Chandak | Data & Growth @varunvchandak]

Barter system, referral benefits, reddit, fb and LinkedIn groups and many more such methods..!!

[Amadou @captaindiallo]

@asemota Our odogu parara have spoken, ok bye 😂

[Amadou @captaindiallo]

Word of mouth, referrals, Community, Partnerships etc

[clareai @clarefinds]

You have $0 for marketing. Your product just launched. How will you get users?