#58 Everyone Can Build Now 🛠️
NYC Tech Week, Sales & GTM course starting, AI, female founders, and extra resources.
At the Amela Frequency 📡, every Monday, we reflect on tech news, share thoughts from our network ✍️, and hand you tools and frameworks for early-stage builders ⚒️. If you’re building (or dreaming about it), you’re in the right place.
Hi Amelxs👋
I have been to a lot of tech weeks by now.
New York, San Francisco, LA, Miami, Mexico, Colombia, Peru. Different cities, different ecosystems, different levels of chaos.
But there was something particular about New York Tech Week this year.
New York has always felt like a city sitting in the middle of different worlds. It is American, but also deeply international. It connects naturally with Europe, Latin America, finance, media, tech, art, and everything in between.
And this week, that felt very real.
I got to see Amelas who came all the way from Mexico, Germany, and other places, all moving through the same city, entering different rooms, meeting founders, investors, operators, and people building very different things.
That part made me very happy.
And while reflecting of what made this week special, I realized that it was the first tech week I have attended after AI became truly mainstream.
The conversation was no longer “AI is coming.”
It was more like: everyone can build now.
And I find that both exciting and a little scary.
Because when everyone can build, building itself stops being the differentiator.
The harder questions become:
Can you sell?
Can you understand your customer deeply?
Can you create real value?
Can you build trust?
How do you avoid becoming just another feature someone else can copy in two weeks?
These are the questions we keep coming back to at Amela.
Because yes, the builder era is incredibly exciting. More people can prototype. More people can test ideas. More people can turn something in their head into something real.
That matters.
But product alone is not enough. Features are not enough. A good idea is not enough. And, honestly, being early is not enough either.
The founders who win in this next era will not only be the ones who can build faster.
They will be the ones who can understand better: the customer, the market, distribution, where trust is built, and what makes their company hard to replace.
That was the thread I kept seeing across the week, whether I was in LATAM rooms, European founder rooms, women founder rooms, AI rooms, investor rooms, or even in rooms where I probably had very little to do, which are often the rooms where you learn the most.
And maybe that is also why conference weeks are useful.
Not because every event is life changing. Most are not, but because they compress signals.
You get to see what people are talking about, what investors are asking, what founders are worried about, what markets are becoming visible, and what ideas are starting to feel obvious before they become obvious to everyone else.
Now, after two intense weeks between Peru and New York, I am closing this trip with a lot of gratitude.
So maybe this is a good moment to pause and ask:
What are you building for the rest of the year?
And more importantly:
What will make it truly valuable?
With that reflection, let’s move into this week’s newsletter 💌
hugs,
💸📈 From Idea to Revenue: Build a GTM System That Converts
Most founders don’t fail because of product: they fail because they never build a repeatable way to reach customers. In this hands-on cohort led by GTM expert Angeley Mullins, you’ll learn how to clarify your positioning, define your audience, and build a sales system that actually generates momentum. Practical, tactical, and designed for early-stage founders who need traction, not theory.
🌟 Member Spotlight: Meet Linh Nguyen
Every week we are sharing the stories of amazing Amelas changing the world an Lihn Nguyen from Rey is definitely one to watch out!
Upcoming Events
🧠 Stop Building the Wrong Thing: How to Know If Your Idea Is Actually Worth Building
Building has never been easier, which makes validation more important than ever. This free webinar breaks down why founders waste months building the wrong products, and what good validation actually looks like before you commit serious time and energy.
📅 June 8 · 12:00 CDMX / 20:00 Berlin · Online → Register here
🍷 NYC Amela Dinner
Amela is coming to New York. An evening of good food, real conversations, and new connections with women who build, invest, and dream big.
📅 June 11 · 19:00 NY In person (New York) → Register here
💸 Funding Your Way: A Founder’s Guide to Raising Capital
Raising capital is not one-size-fits-all. Join Amela and H&M Group Ventures in Berlin for a practical evening on fundraising strategy, investor expectations, pitch deck mistakes, and the different paths founders can take, from bootstrapping to venture capital.
📅 June 22 · 18:30 Berlin · In person (Berlin) → Register here
💡Recommendations
Articles, videos, and other resources to learn
🌱 Saplings: The Childhoods of Exceptional Entrepreneurs: A deep research project studying 260 founders across 560+ books — looking for the patterns in early life that shaped the world's most driven builders. Less rags-to-riches myth, more about families in flux, obsessive kids, and where ambition actually starts. Read more
🧠 The Cognitive Cost of Convenience: AI and Our Brains An MIT study found measurable neural costs to outsourcing writing to LLMs — less brain engagement, weaker memory, and a creeping homogenization of ideas. A grounded look at what we might be trading away when we let AI do our thinking for us. Read more
📈 Women Are Winning the Exits: A data-driven breakdown of why female founders generate better returns per dollar invested, and what that means for LATAM, an ecosystem young enough to be built without the biases that took developed markets decades to unlearn. Read more
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