From aerospace engineer to entrepreneur, I help technical minds turn their expertise into thriving businesses. Each week, I share raw insights on transforming engineering mindsets into business success - from crafting memorable introductions to winning premium clients. No corporate jargon, no "fake it till you make it" - just real experiences and proven approaches for engineers ready to grow beyond their technical roots.
I am Back 👣
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I went all-in writing for several days in a row then pfffssshhh ...🎈deflated ! My 30-day writing challenge back in June (writing every day on my newsletter + LinkedIn posts derailed on day 19). So it's a 63% success, nothing glamorous, but not as disastrous at it felt. A few consecutive unsubscribes set me on a panic 😱 so I pressed the red button 🚨. Old demons 👹 returned, I tried to fight it while experimenting a few things this summer, and now I am back for another round 🥊. 🟢 What worked (in those 19 days)
🔴 What didn't work
🟡 What to improve
So what's next ?
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The Entrepreneurial Engineer
From aerospace engineer to entrepreneur, I help technical minds turn their expertise into thriving businesses. Each week, I share raw insights on transforming engineering mindsets into business success - from crafting memorable introductions to winning premium clients. No corporate jargon, no "fake it till you make it" - just real experiences and proven approaches for engineers ready to grow beyond their technical roots.
Pick one. Anyone, but pick one. I learned from our cousins the “creatives” that my biggest obstacle to build a profitable service business lays in “my creativity” what ?? Entrepreneurial engineers are a form of creative entrepreneurs. We are so “curious” we can’t help but when facing several doors, we want to open every single one of them. It’s almost compulsive. Which curious mind can live with themselves leaving one stone unturned ? We proud ourselves into being “solution-oriented”,...
Unlike Professor X, we can't get into people's head and tell them what to do. But there's something else we can do. My first job as an avionics engineer was to update the embedded software of an Fighter's Electronic Warfare Equipment so it would store and manage data in FlashPROM instead of EEPROM. Sounds easy, just replace an electronic component with another, and boom it's done. Well, that system was an existing and robust one, built more than a few decades back, and I could not use all the...
We've created this amazing solution, how do we sell it ? As AI takes center stage, I’m seeing a flood of firms churning out “amazing solutions” for problems that might not even exist. 🤨 This made me think of Eric Ries's "The Lean Startup", when I read that book in my early years of avionics software development, and up to that point I lived under the impression that we were at the top technological advancement ... that's when it hit me. "No Othmane, you are working on a known solution, for a...