This Wednesday, I had the privilege of joining an incredible community of founders, mentors, and innovators at the Scale-up NRW End-of-Year Dinner. The flying buffet was delicious, but the true highlight were inspiring conversations with the other guests.

Time is one of the most valuable resources for startups, AI Lead Gen is the tool to maximize it 🚀

Pirate Skills is Going Offline – Let's reconnect and share the Best Growth Strategies of 2024! 🏴‍☠️ Tomorrow, we're closing this year's chapter the only way we know how: With an offline meetup at STARTPLATZ Cologne. 🚀

Kickstarting 2025 with Growth Marketing and the right strategy: Join the Pirate Roundtable! 🎉🚀 Ahoy, founders and marketers! It’s a brand-new year, and what better way to set the course for 2025 than diving straight into the first Pirate Roundtable of the year?

If you’ve been looking for a way to leverage Automation & AI to find high-quality leads, you’re in the right place! 🚀

You know that feeling when your inbox is flooded with spammy cold outreach that just screams, “I didn’t even bother to look you up”? Yeah, me too. That’s exactly why I want to show you a different way.

Tomorrow we’re unlocking 1,000 B2B leads, will you be there? 👀 Just a quick reminder that tomorrow is the day we dive into the “Unlock 1,000 B2B Leads in 7 Days” online event!

Growth Challenges? Let’s crack them together! 🚀 Every entrepreneur and growth marketer knows the struggle is real – customer acquisition costs that won’t budge, content that doesn’t convert, and ads that eat budgets like a black hole.

🎰 Funnel Hacking Live 2025 - A bittersweet finale in Las Vegas 🚀 So, I just returned from Russell Brunson’s 10th and final Funnel Hacking Live event with 5000 other funnel enthusiasts. What an experience!

It's Pirate Skill's 9th anniversary! If you’ve been part of the journey, let’s celebrate. 🏴‍☠️ After 9 years, there’s one thing I know for sure, marketing changes fast, but the best insights come from real conversations with smart people.

It started with a simple invite... now we're celebrating our 9th Pirate Skills Anniversary 🏴‍☠️ Nine years ago, I sent out my very first invite to a meetup that would become the foundation of Pirate Skills. Back then, it was called the “Traction & Growth Cologne Meetup.”

If you could fix only one growth marketing bottleneck right now, which one would it be? We all know the struggle, that's why we meet next Wednesday online again to fix our growth marketing bottlenecks!

What happens when AI gets eyes? I had to find out 👀 Yesterday, OpenAI dropped their new image generation update to the GPT-4o model. It can now interpret images as input and generate new ones based on what it “sees”.

Founders and marketers are you tired of “get rich quick” hacks and empty marketing promises? – Then you might just love this 👇

I turned 43 last Saturday. Spent the day exactly how I wanted, with my partner in crime, Christina and my two kids. ♥️ But turning 43 got me thinking it’s time for a change. A growth update, if you will, to get the marketing juices flowing...

9 years ago was the beginning of Pirate Skills meetups 🚀 We celebrated the anniversary at STARTPLATZ Cologne, surrounded by old friends and new faces.

Vibe Coding is insane for us Marketers! 🤓+⌨️=🚀 I've completely rebuilt the Pirate Skills website using Next.js – but the real gem is what I'm calling "the Captain".

Got a growth challenge on your mind? Let’s solve it together – Pirate-style. 🏴‍☠️ Tomorrow, at 13:30 Berlin time, we’re hosting our next Pirate Roundtable – a 90-minute online hangout for founders and marketers who love geeking out over growth. 🤓

Tomorrow is Pirate Roundtable day 🚀 This means every month, I block out 90 minutes to do one thing: Work on real growth challenges with real people. Live, online with founders and marketers who are in it, just like you.

Curious about what AI-assisted coding can actually do? 🤖 Join us for the very first Vibe Coding Cologne Meetup on June 18th at 7 pm in Cologne 🚀 Together with ✅ VisualMakers 🚀 ✅ Gero from Open ✅ Lorenz from STARTPLATZ