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Christian Woese
Why you should not listen to the 996 founder routine

Tuesday Newsletter

Jun 16, 2026

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3 min read

Why you should not listen to the 996 founder routine

Is Europe getting unplugged?

Christian Woese
Melanie Gabriel
Christian Woese, +1
How great founders work themselves out of a job

Tuesday Newsletter

Jun 9, 2026

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4 min read

How great founders work themselves out of a job

Plus: Do you actually know your own productivity curve?

Christian Woese
Melanie Gabriel
Christian Woese, +1
We rebuilt the whole company every six months

Jun 4, 2026

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3 min read

We rebuilt the whole company every six months

🎙️Olivia Elf on the 666 rhythm that took Sana from 20 to a $1.1bn exit

Christian Woese
Melanie Gabriel
Christian Woese, +1
How to spot a top 5% early hire

Tuesday Newsletter

Jun 2, 2026

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3 min read

How to spot a top 5% early hire

Plus: will the next $1tn company sell work, not software?

Christian Woese
Melanie Gabriel
Christian Woese, +1
Stop selling the science. Investors fund a product mindset.

Thursday Podcast

May 28, 2026

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2 min read

Stop selling the science. Investors fund a product mindset.

🎙Jan Goetz on what deep-tech founders consistently underestimate

Christian Woese
Melanie Gabriel
Christian Woese, +1
How to read your next term sheet

Tuesday Newsletter

May 26, 2026

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4 min read

How to read your next term sheet

Plus: €800k vested, €0 accessed

Christian Woese
Melanie Gabriel
Christian Woese, +1
How to actually rank in AI search

Tuesday Newsletter

May 19, 2026

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3 min read

How to actually rank in AI search

Plus: Is internal marketing the real GTM moat

Christian Woese
Melanie Gabriel
Christian Woese, +1
How to deploy AI in our GTM motion

Tuesday Newsletter

May 12, 2026

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4 min read

How to deploy AI in our GTM motion

Plus: Is culture the only moat left?

Christian Woese
Melanie Gabriel
Christian Woese, +1
Current jobs in the Greater Cologne Area

Resource

May 10, 2026

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4 min read

Current jobs in the Greater Cologne Area

Christian Woese
Melanie Gabriel
Christian Woese, +1
The best European VC category is compliance software

Thursday Podcast

May 7, 2026

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3 min read

The best European VC category is compliance software

🎙️ Andreas Schwarzenbrunner on the regulation tax founders pay before they ship a single product

Christian Woese
Melanie Gabriel
Christian Woese, +1
How to manage your team more efficiently

Tuesday Newsletter

May 5, 2026

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4 min read

How to manage your team more efficiently

Plus: Why we stopped having an attention span

Melanie Gabriel
Christian Woese
Melanie Gabriel, +1
55 Employees, 3 Million Users, $0 Marketing Budget. Then a Miro Exit.

Thursday Podcast

Apr 30, 2026

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10 min read

55 Employees, 3 Million Users, $0 Marketing Budget. Then a Miro Exit.

🎙Tony Beltramelli on the team-design rules that took Uizard to 3M users and a Miro exit

Christian Woese
Melanie Gabriel
Christian Woese, +1
How to build a company with AI from the ground up

Tuesday Newsletter

Apr 28, 2026

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4 min read

How to build a company with AI from the ground up

Plus: What is forward deployed GTM?

Melanie Gabriel
Christian Woese
Melanie Gabriel, +1
$14bn profit, 150 employees: the business model nobody talks about

Thursday Podcast

Apr 23, 2026

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2 min read

$14bn profit, 150 employees: the business model nobody talks about

🎙️ Pascal Hügli on what stablecoins reveal about crypto's real value

Christian Woese
Melanie Gabriel
Christian Woese, +1
How to make sense of AI agents

Tuesday Newsletter

Apr 21, 2026

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4 min read

How to make sense of AI agents

Plus: Why EU startups don't need more capital

Melanie Gabriel
Christian Woese
Melanie Gabriel, +1
Germany's AI edge is hiding in plain sight

Thursday Podcast

Apr 16, 2026

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8 min read

Germany's AI edge is hiding in plain sight

🎙️ Gülsah Wilke, DN Capital, on why vertical AI will be Europe's real moat

Christian Woese
Melanie Gabriel
Christian Woese, +1
How to turn your codebase into your best support tool

Tuesday Newsletter

Apr 14, 2026

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10 min read

How to turn your codebase into your best support tool

Plus: Is becoming a people manager a bad career move?

Christian Woese
Melanie Gabriel
Christian Woese, +1
14 of 18 European IPOs went to NASDAQ. That tells you everything.

Thursday Podcast

Apr 9, 2026

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14 min read

14 of 18 European IPOs went to NASDAQ. That tells you everything.

🎙️ Nicolas Autret on the capital physics of building hardware in Europe

Christian Woese
Melanie Gabriel
Christian Woese, +1
How to measure AI adoption in your company

Tuesday Newsletter

Apr 7, 2026

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9 min read

How to measure AI adoption in your company

Plus: The principles to build successful ventures

Christian Woese
Melanie Gabriel
Christian Woese, +1
They are building the next Google

Thursday Podcast

Apr 2, 2026

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4 min read

They are building the next Google

🎙️ A 12-year Google veteran on why he bet his career on a 70-person competitor

Christian Woese
Melanie Gabriel
Christian Woese, +1
How to position your career for the AI era

Tuesday Newsletter

Mar 31, 2026

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10 min read

How to position your career for the AI era

Plus: How long it takes to Series B

Christian Woese
Melanie Gabriel
Christian Woese, +1
The CEO-CFO playbook for buying companies without destroying them

Thursday Podcast

Mar 26, 2026

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4 min read

The CEO-CFO playbook for buying companies without destroying them

🎙️ Francine Gervazio and Wouter Hendriks on scaling to 100M ARR

Christian Woese
Melanie Gabriel
Christian Woese, +1
How to improve your email campaigns

Tuesday Newsletter

Mar 24, 2026

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10 min read

How to improve your email campaigns

Plus: What 81k people think about AI

Christian Woese
Melanie Gabriel
Christian Woese, +1
The decision female founders face that no one prepares them for | Julia Bösch, Outfittery

Thursday Podcast

Mar 19, 2026

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6 min read

The decision female founders face that no one prepares them for | Julia Bösch, Outfittery

🎙️ Julia Bösch on egg freezing, Outfittery, and choosing both

Christian Woese
Melanie Gabriel
Christian Woese, +1
How to keep your friends when work gets crazy

Tuesday Newsletter

Mar 17, 2026

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10 min read

How to keep your friends when work gets crazy

Plus: The three things to increase your performance

Christian Woese
Melanie Gabriel
Christian Woese, +1
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