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Clarity

Andrew Sider

Toronto / San Francisco

Founder with 4 exits & $70M+ raised from Sequoia, Lightspeed, Floodgate, MDV, SVB, 500 startups. Ex-CEO @ VarageSale (acquired: VerticalScope) and Co-founder @ BandPage (acquired: YouTube). Sold my first company @ 16 years old.

Active angel investor (Union Capital) + startup advisor. Expert in all things marketplaces, B2C / B2-SMB, growth marketing, VC fundraising, scaling your team+culture from 10 to 75 employees and board management.

Success isn't a straight line - My hardest day was laying off 30 people in one day.

I LOVE to help startup founders + mgmt teams. Want tactical advice from the trenches + unfilitered real talk? Hit me up.

My mantras - Never stop learning & aspire to be the dumbest person in every room.

$2.00/min

Andrew donates to Habitat for Humanity® International. ($9.25)

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Run a Successful VC Fundraising Process

I've personally raised over $70M from over 10 US and Canadian VCs & angels across 3 companies at pre-seed, seed, series A and B rounds. I've also secured $5M+ in venture debt and helped support multiple founders through their fundraising processes. I can help you think about the process and give feedback on your pitch.

Learn How to Sell Your Company & Common Pitfalls to Avoid

I have sold 3 companies, managed the sale of another company and advised founders through the sale of their businesses. I can help you think through the process, the decision of whether to get a banker and tips for negotiating a purchase agreement and deal structure. I have sold companies in multiple situations, including acquihires.

Secrets of Engineering Management for Business Founders (Ship Code 5x Faster)

Non technical co-founders often feel their company isn't shipping code fast enough and products are taking longer than expected. Often this is because the business founder lacks the tools and language to manage engineers and scope of work. I can talk through what I've learned as a business founder and questions you can ask engineers to help better scope and manage work timelines to build a culture that ships code faster. I will lean on my experiences managing engineering teams in 3 of my companies, including my experience learning from amazing technical leaders and my experience acting as CTO (while I was CEO) of a 40 person engineering team for 6 months.

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