🔧 Tools That Scale Startups

👋 Hey — Egemen here.

There are a million tools out there, but only a few I actually rely on week after week.

This week’s edition is a banger: Free AirPods (oh it’s true), an entire collection of ready to use frameworks & templates, and a $20K ChatGPT prompt.

Based out here in Dubai UAE, I’m also covering a crypto infra startup that’s quietly scaling hard.

You’ll want to save this one, enjoy!

Here’s a snapshot of what’s on the menu today:

💡 Spotlight

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🧠 Deep-Dive: Tools That Scale Startups

Notion’s my go-to tool for pretty much anything and everything at this point.

It’s super flexible, looks clean, feels smooth, actually fun to use.

The entirety of SCALABLE’s Template & Frameworks Store is built around powerful Notion templates over tens of different resources:

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🗺️ Method: A ChatGPT Prompt Worth $20K

I stumbled across this Reddit post over the weekend.

Someone shared a ChatGPT prompt that provides the output of a $20K Growth Consultant, for any company, any industry, anywhere.

A couple users argue that it’s not the best in the comments and even provided much better ones.

With one of the other prompts in the comments, I’ve actually played around with a hypothetical (Mining in India) with Deep Research feature of ChatGPT – the results are actually impressive.

⚾️ Catch

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☝️ Scaled This Past Week: Fuze

Fuze just wrapped up their series A round – it’s the scale of the week!

UAE-based digital assets infrastructure provider Fuze has raised $12.2 million in a Series A funding round, bringing its total funding to $20 million, as interest in the crypto market surges.

Here’s what Fuze does:

• Provides Digital Assets-as-a-Service (DAaaS) infrastructure to banks, fintechs, and enterprises across MENA and Türkiye

• Operates an OTC trading desk and a suite of stablecoin/payment products including FuzePay

• Supports regulated, localized crypto infrastructure with over 300 institutional clients and $2.2B+ in processed volume.

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