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Day 24- Automate for Scale.
Day 24- Automate for Scale.

Day 24 teaches building scalable hustles by prioritizing simple products, optimizing processes, and adding thoughtful tech automation, with regular review for continuous improvement.

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Lunch Break MillionaireHood Qaim-MaqamiAugust 4, 2025
Day 25- Strategic Partnerships.
Day 25- Strategic Partnerships.

Day 25 teaches strategic partner signaling: build authentic value, showcase strengths, and emit clear, consistent signals to attract and foster mutually beneficial partnerships.

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Lunch Break MillionaireHood Qaim-MaqamiAugust 4, 2025
Day 26- Buid a Data Moat
Day 26- Buid a Data Moat

Day 26 teaches building defensible data moats with unique user behavior data, enabling personalized content and sustainable growth in your hustle.

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Lunch Break MillionaireHood Qaim-MaqamiAugust 4, 2025
Day 27- Employ Counter-Positioning
Day 27- Employ Counter-Positioning

Day 27 teaches counter-positioning: build a business model that exploits incumbents' sacred cows, making your hustle unreplicable and defensible.

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Lunch Break MillionaireHood Qaim-MaqamiAugust 4, 2025
Day 28- Reflecting on Week 4
Day 28- Reflecting on Week 4

Scale with purpose by avoiding efficiency and collaboration traps. Prune offerings and invest in people-centric processes. And safeguard core values.

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Lunch Break MillionaireHood Qaim-MaqamiAugust 4, 2025
Day 29- Turn Churn into Growth.
Day 29- Turn Churn into Growth.

Day 29 teaches embracing churn and feedback as valuable tools, designing recovery workflows and graduation moments to build loyalty and convert lost clients into advocates.

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Lunch Break MillionaireHood Qaim-MaqamiAugust 4, 2025
Day 30- Reframe Frustrations as Needs.
Day 30- Reframe Frustrations as Needs.

Day 30 teaches synthetic demand creation by reframing customer frustrations as urgent needs and using FOMO tactics to ignite market demand and growth.

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Lunch Break MillionaireHood Qaim-MaqamiAugust 4, 2025
Day 31- Design for Optionality.
Day 31- Design for Optionality.

Day 31 teaches exit engineering: design your hustle for liquidity, optimize operations, document processes, build defensible value, and create multiple exit pathways.

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Lunch Break MillionaireHood Qaim-MaqamiAugust 4, 2025
Day 32- Anticipate Disruption.
Day 32- Anticipate Disruption.

Day 32 teaches horizon planning to anticipate market changes, stress-test business models, and maintain agility through scanning present, emerging, and future trends.

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Lunch Break MillionaireHood Qaim-MaqamiAugust 4, 2025
Day 33- Hijack Meme Culture.
Day 33- Hijack Meme Culture.

Day 33 teaches meme engineering to hijack cultural narratives and create shareable content that sparks viral, community-driven growth.

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Lunch Break MillionaireHood Qaim-MaqamiAugust 4, 2025
Day 34- Self-Care!
Day 34- Self-Care!

Day 34 teaches founder self-care: recognize burnout, set boundaries, build support systems, and cultivate daily habits to sustain energy and resilience.

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Lunch Break MillionaireHood Qaim-MaqamiAugust 4, 2025
Day 35- Reflecting on Week 5
Day 35- Reflecting on Week 5

Scaling brings professionalism but risks loss of passion and meaning. So balancing growth with preserving the amateur spirit is essential for founders.

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Lunch Break MillionaireHood Qaim-MaqamiAugust 4, 2025
First 30 Days Reading List
First 30 Days Reading List

A subscriber asked for the complete list of books I recommended as pre-reads for the series. Enjoy!

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CIOHood Qaim-MaqamiMarch 25, 2024
First 30 Days as a New CIO
First 30 Days as a New CIO

If you don’t want to watch this on Tiktok or YouTube, here’s the full transcript.

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CIOHood Qaim-MaqamiMarch 25, 2024
The Breakthrough
The Breakthrough

Innovation requires some demolition, the occasional tearing down of a wall. For sunlight. For play. For profit. So bring your hammer and a snack.

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InnovationHood Qaim-MaqamiMarch 2, 2024
Why I'm No Longer Creating Content for LinkedIn
Why I'm No Longer Creating Content for LinkedIn

Saying goodbye to an old friend that you finally realize might have never been a friend. And what makes it even sadder is knowing that they’re wasting real potential.

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Fun ReadsHood Qaim-MaqamiFebruary 12, 2024
Books, Books, Books (2023)
Books, Books, Books (2023)

I go through books like honey butter so here are my best-of-the-best for the year.

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Hood Qaim-MaqamiDecember 4, 2023
Commercial Lending in an Hour
Commercial Lending in an Hour

Commercial lending is all about relationships. You can automate the grind, but don’t forget: Bob the Banker is still your best asset (for now).

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TutorialHood Qaim-MaqamiNovember 20, 2023Banking
OTC Derivatives in an Hour
OTC Derivatives in an Hour

OTC derivatives: custom contracts for hedging risk. Think private bets with rules only two parties know. Super complex. Super vital. Always a little wild.

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TutorialHood Qaim-MaqamiNovember 13, 2023Banking
KYC in an Hour
KYC in an Hour

Banks need to make you prove you’re not a villain—over and over—with docs, forms, and all kinds of fact checking. It should be a goldmine, but feels like a grind.

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TutorialHood Qaim-MaqamiNovember 6, 2023Banking
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