Founder Office Hours

Building a startup is hard. The wrong moves can set you back months — or kill your company entirely.

That’s why I open up a limited amount of hours each week for advising with founders — where you can book a 1-1 call with me, share your problems and questions, and I'll help you cut through the noise, avoid costly mistakes, and get clear next steps that work. 

🧠 I help early-stage founders with:

  • Validating ideas & building MVPs

  • Tech & product development

  • GTM strategy & fundraising

  • Finding PMF & growth hacks

  • Growing & monetising newsletters

  • Content creation & personal branding on LinkedIn

🤝🏻 Here's how it works:

  1. Pick a time that works for you

  2. Tell me what you need help with (I'll read your questions and spend time preparing for our call)

  3. Expense with credit card

  4. On our call, we'll deep dive on your questions, and I'll help you cut through the noise, avoid costly mistakes, and get clear next steps that work.

🙏🏻 Stop making costly mistakes…

🫡 My background

I’m a physicist turned data scientist, now a founder building The Runway Ventures — a weekly newsletter to help people learn from startup failures to become the top 1% founders.

I spent the first 3 years of my career helping companies solve business problems as a data scientist. Meantime, I was also a corporate trainer, speaker, and writer in data science. Then, I spent the next 3 years building startups.

1 failed, 1 acquired.

🧗🏻 This is how I got here:

  • Got my degree in Physics from Nanyang Technological University.

  • Started as a data scientist at SME (Titansoft), then MNC (Micron) before joining a startup (Hackwagon).

  • Quit my job during COVID (wild timing), joined an incubator, found a co-founder, and built my 1st startup (Staq). Spent 1.5 years building Staq but we failed. Despite our mistakes, we learned a lot.

  • Was very lost after my 1st startup’s failure. Spent the next 2 months doing self-reflection and exploring my curiosity.

  • Started my 2nd startup building Leadgram at an influencer marketing agency (X10 Media). 8 months later, we got acquired by The Smart Local (TSL) Media Group.

After 3 years of building startups, I'm convinced that mistakes are the best teachers to become a better founder. For any startup, there are many ways to succeed, but only a few ways to die.

That’s why I started The Runway Ventures.

Every Sunday, I analyse and share 1 failed startup story, 2 mistakes made, and 3 lessons learned with actionable tips to help you learn from startup failures.

Real life case studies, with key takeaways you can apply in your business.

No theories or BS.

99% of startups failed because founders made mistakes.

You’ll learn why and how startups failed to become the top 1% founder.

P.S. If you want to avoid making costly mistakes like I did, book a 1-1 call with me and see you in Founder Office Hours! 👇🏻