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Ilya Gindin

Lead Product at Hostmeapp.com, Ex-Facebook Growth Manager (regional). Growth Hacker at ResumUP.com. Co-Founder of Edumoko.com. Startup Wise Guys Accelerator Alumni. During a session I can help with building strategy to grow your startup organically, show your mistakes and share some hack examples for your startup.

$2.50/min

8 Calls

8 Reviews

26 minutes
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Growth Hacking Social Media Community Management Marketing Communications Copywriting Web Analytics Product Marketing Data Analysis Growth Hacker APIs

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Startup Pitch

I used to pitch my startup on DEMO Europe, I've passed 3 months accelerator programs StartupWiseGuys (best in Eastern Europe), Used to pitch for 1.5, 3 and 5 minutes, attracting media and investors attention after. If you want to know how to sharpen your pitch or how to make all info about your company to be interesting, clear and attractive - that's what I can really help you with.

Raise Sponsorship for Your Project or Event

I used to raise sponsorships for IT events from big (Oracle, Facebook, Skype...), medium and even small companies. I used to work in the biggest youth organisation AIESEC, I also raised sponsors for biggest startup competition in Eastern Europe. I raised money through setting up "warm" contacts, via LinkedIn or even I, raised money from the gaming company just during 20 minutes call with a 6000 $ bill.

Do you want to know how YOU can do this? Call me!

Action Steps for You Startup Growth. No Bullshit!

I'll give you concrete action steps for your startup. I am experienced in growth, analytics, CRO, business sales and negotiations, copywriting, 0 budget marketing, pitching.

Please, send me information about your startup before the call and be in touch in case I have questions before the call.

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Ilya Gindin answered

Which products or services can be sold easily through cold-calling to businesses?

I used to sell event sponsorships via phone, so I think you can sell everything if you want, but you need to make pre-sale emails, find great contacts e t. c. Try to sell expensive tickets on business events, for example. The % you can get from organisers also depends on your negotiation skills, because they can offer a good deal for you.

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Telephone Skills

Cold Calling

Telemarketing

Ilya Gindin answered

What would be considered "enough traction" before going for a seed round?

If you can skip investors and run with your customers money - do this until you're ready for big round. What is good traction...? It depends on how you sell it to investors, how you pitch them, actually. It's not about real traction on this stage in 99% of the cases. But... if you really want to understand what the best traction is, I think it's all about retention and customer happiness. If you have very less amount of money, or companies can't leave without your software and are going to use it daily, switch from other e t. c., so this is the best traction measurements. You can grow money and # of customers, but if they really use your product and like it - the best traction you can have. If you want understand your best traction before the launch, so initiate pre-orders with great discount. How much traction you have is not so important as how fast and how good it is.

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Seed Capital

angel investing

Fundraising

Ilya Gindin answered

If you had to pick only one thing, what would you say is the best way to grow an engaged online community?

Provocative content that will increase number of discussions.

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Community Management

Community Building

Community Outreach

Reviews

Enjoyed chatting with Ilya

Allan Caeg Source: Clarity

No nonsense advice from an expert who tells you exactly what's best for your business. It tells you in a logical step what you need to do and the details to follow instead of theories.

paul VALCIN Source: Clarity

Ilya was well-prepared and provided some great feedback. Would definitely recommend.

Source: Clarity

Fantastic call. Really appreciate Ilya's insights!

Brentis Cooper Source: Clarity

As a person who is starting to learn about growth hacking and launching first online start up: Ilya was just a discovery! He is professional, knowledgeable and could deliver the main message in a clear way, so after the call I had a plan on how to start, what to gaps to cover and in what direction to move. Plus he gave some useful tips, which I'd not get anywhere I am sure. I highly recommend him and will for sure use his consultancy again!

Nailya Zehnalkova Source: Clarity

Experienced fellow from well recognized start-up is providing quality consultations on IT business development. Highly recommend.

Viktor Kovelskiy Source: Clarity

Iliya has been working for Facebook for 6 months in Saint-Petersburg, his job was to work with St. Pete partners on user growth initiatives for Facebook in the region, the partners included local TV stations, radios, websites and celebs.

Iliya has a good communication and partner management skills, can work under tight deadlines and deliver results, so will be a valuable member of marketing team. He is also a quick learner and can move fast in what he is doing which was important for his role.

Ekaterina Skorobogatova Source: LinkedIn

Ilya is a active young professional with a strong understanding of internet business and IT trends. His managerial skills has been proved by several well-organized conferences, some of them I've been engaged myself as a speaker and sponsor representative and that left me completely satisfied. I think that with this level of commitment and devotion to IT and internet industry Ilya will make a good career.

Ilya Chernetskiy (Tchernetski) Source: LinkedIn

Member since February 2013